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Language-Center Methods This chapter Language-Center Methods emphasizes and focuses on the linguistic that shaped the language – center pedagogy. Language-center methods, involve and improve the accumulation of experience and experimentation, emphasizing on habit formation, in which according with Kumaradivelu, must be a pattern practice leading a fluid and effective communication that can be simulated in real life situations, selecting topics in a “carefully controlled context”. As in the chapter says, its an human learning focusing in audiolingual theory, which gives way to an inductive grammatical structure teaching, leaving outside the mistakes.  Additionally, the chapter expose that it easy to train a lot of teachers in the principles and procedures cof the language-centered methods of teaching, and also this ways of Methods can be effecty  in a fairly short period of time.To conclude the chapter mentioned compiled all his phases until it became a useful method i...

The entire framework that Antony stated in the chapter Constituents and Categories of Methods has lots of drawbacks, but why? well all of his theory about teaching has to be take into account cause is a useful guide to organize a class, make a properly syllabus and obviously to make the theoretical guide of course, but just in the writing more or less.  The teaching could not be made in the writing merely, teaching is about praxis, to explain this in a nutshell, a teacher must not teach a class with just the theory, he has to look around his context and boundaries, to prepare a proper class taking into account the flaws of the community (classroom), the society in which the community is immersed, the learner roles and some other concepts related to the classroom.  In this text, is important understand that teaching practice is a continuous process of reflection, which is necessary include the making free decisions, the awareness of the students' needs and the contexts they ar...