XXI century: Part 3. The Postmethods Era (16 Feb 2008 Jahr – 1 Sept 2017 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

The Language Teaching field nowadays is also referred to as the Postmethods Era, where the focus of teaching is on eclecticism (Kumaravadivelu, 2001, 2006; Brown, 2007; Larsen-Freeman, 2000; Mellow, 2002). Eclecticism involves the use of a variety of language learning activities, each of which may have very different characteristics and may be motivated by different underlying assumptions.

In recent years, more schools have put the 7C skills, outlined by Trilling and Fadel (2009) in their book 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times, at the center of learning. The seven C's are:

1. critical thinking and problem solving,
2. creativity and innovation,
3. collaboration, teamwork, and leadership,
4. cross-cultural understanding,
5. ccommunication and media literacy,
6. computing and ICT literacy, and
7. career and learning self-reliance.