SKILLS-BASED ECLECTIC TECHNIQUES MATRIX FOR ELT MICROTEACHINGS

Abstract

Foreign language teaching undergoes constant changes due to the methodologicalimprovement. This progress may be examined in two parts. They are the methods era and thepost-methods era. It is not pragmatic today to propose a particular language teaching methodand its techniques for all purposes. The holistic inflexibility of mid-century methods has longgone. In the present day, constructivist foreign language teaching trends attempt to see thelearner as a whole person and an individual who may be different from the other students inmany respects. At the same time, the individual differences should not keep the learners awayfrom group harmony. For this reason, current teacher training programs require eclecticteaching matrixes for unit design considering the mixed ability student groups. Thesematrixes can be prepared in a multidimensional fashion because there are many functionaltechniques in different methods and other new techniques to be created by instructors freelyin accordance with the teaching aims. The hypothesis in this argument is that the collection offoreign language teaching techniques compiled in ELT microteachings for a particular groupof learners has to be arranged eclectically in order to update the teaching process.Nevertheless, designing a teaching format of this sort is a demanding and highly criticizedtask. This study briefly argues eclecticism in language-skills based methodological strugglefrom the perspective of ELT teacher education.