Questão 2570821

Read text and answer questions 57 to 70:

Post‐Method Pedagogy: Teacher Growth behind Walls

There have always been attempts in the field of English

Language Teaching to find solutions to language teaching

problems. The field has been in constant movement and

change. This change is mostly due to the adoption of new

5 teaching approaches and methods, which emerged in order to

meet the learner’s needs in different periods. In other words,

the solution to problems in ELT throughout the history was

seen in the new methods which resulted in the search for the

best method that is generalizable and applicable across various

10 contexts. Effective English teaching is thought to be about

using a method correctly by applying its prescribed principles

and techniques. Nowadays, while teachers who think that they

can perfectly practice the Communicative Language Teaching

Method are considered to be successful teachers, those who

15 are more on the Grammar Translation Method are considered

as old‐fashioned and not successful at all. Moreover, pre‐

service teachers who are trained to base their teaching on

these methods, especially the communicative ones face an

overwhelming experience when they start teaching in the

20 actual classroom. They come to realize that what has been

theorized does not usually reflect the reality. Therefore, one

needs to question how successful the use of the methods and

the search for the best method has been.

Classroom‐oriented studies carried out in the last two

25 decades show that teachers could not be successful in putting

the methods into practice in real classroom situations though

this does not mean that they could not be successful in

achieving learning outcomes. More specifically, the research

results indicate that teachers who claim to follow a particular

30 method do not practice its principles and procedures, those

who claim to follow different methods often follow the same

classroom procedures and vice versa. Lastly, teachers are

found to be developing and following their own activities that

are not related to any method. This kind of situation brings us

35 to the post‐method era requiring us to reconsider the

relationship between theorizers and practitioners of methods”

[…]

In brief, there is not a need for an invention of another

method but a need for post‐method pedagogy which is not a

40 method. I believe post‐method pedagogy does not mean the

end of methods but rather it involves an understanding of the

limitations of the concept of method and a desire to go

beyond those limitations. Therefore, post‐method pedagogy

brings new insights into teacher growth by discussing the place

45 of the conventional teaching methods and the post‐method

pedagogy.

(adapted from http://dbe.metu.edu.tr/convention/proceedingsweb/Pedagogy.pdf)

In relation to the word “Moreover” (line 16), read the following statements:

I. This sentence connective supports the previous opinion.

II. This word indicates that further information is added.

III. It is a marker that introduces a conclusive statement.

Now, choose the correct alternative: