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Introduction:
Variety of changes and new emerging developments in ELT has been categorized
in the following manner for better holistic view for teachers and students of ELT.
Category: I. Some changes related with ELT classroom:
1. Strategic Teaching and Learning is a change seen in ELT and Education. In
view of Boraie ( 2013)Teaching in English language classes focuses on fostering
student thinking as well as language content, outcomes, and learning activities.
2. Method synergetic or eclecticism It is crossbreeding of elements of
various methods to find those practices which best support effective learning. If
we view classroom practices. (Jimena, 2013)
3. Anti-method era: The methodologists have ever been in search of more
effective method of teaching foreign languages or second languages. The era of
method is over. ELT, therefore, is now in post method thinking. (Jimena, 2013)
4. Strategopedia: A trend in ELT today has been to make the students
independent learners. Today, a school of thought has developed with the purpose
of equipping learners with appropriate learning strategies to take the
responsibility for self-direction. (Jimena, 2013)
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Corpora approach
Blended Learning: Sorden. (2012) viewed this as a
new approach. Its not just a combination of online
and f2f .It is a combination of training methodologies,
which uses the best delivery method for the
successful achievement of the learning objective.
ICT & PLEs for Personalized& Informal Learning
Augmented Reality Language Learning: (Sorden.
2012) ARLL is the combination of real world and
computer generated data so that computer
generated objects are blended into real time
projection of real life activities.