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Thus,ateacherwhowascapable,skilful,andenthusiastichadthebest
chanceofbecomingagoodteacherinComenius’understanding.
Still,untiltheendoftheRenaissanceanyeducatedmanwasregardedas
acapableteacher:“Teachingabilitywasanhonouredpartofscholarship,
passingonknowledgetoothersbeingconsideredanessentialdutyofschol-
ars”(Kelly1969:277),ratherthanaseparateprofession.
Inshort,littleisknownabouttheconceptoftheeffectiveteacherin
thosetimes.Goodpracticewasbasicallyunderstoodastestingstudentson
thememorisedmateriallearnedfromthedoublemanuals,andbeingan
expertonthelanguage,dedicatedtoteachingtheyoung.
1.2.Theconceptofsuccessfulteaching
Althoughmostpublicationsonlanguageteachingmethodsincludethe
GrammarTranslationMethodandtheDirectMethodwhichflourishedin
languageclassroomsupto1940s
2
,theconceptofsuccessfulteachingwas
bornafterWorldWarII(Komorowska1999:4).Thischangeinorientation
waspropelledbyawidespreadneedtomasterforeignlanguages,ademand
forinteractionandcommunicationattheinternationallevel,andtheappear-
anceofnewtechnologiestopromoteandshareinformation(ibid.).Since
then,successfulteachinghasundergoneseveralconsiderablemodifications
referredtoasprogressinmodernlanguageteaching(ibid.).Thepresent
sectionis,thus,anattempttoillustratehowtheconceptofsuccessfulteach-
inghasevolvedoverthelast50years,focusingonthefourmainlinguistic
orientationsaswellascontemporaryapproaches.
1.2.1.Thebehaviouristapproach
Thenotionofsuccessfulteachingstartedwiththepredominanceofthebe-
haviouristapproachanditsoffshoot,theAudiolingualMethod,intheearly
fifties.ThemethodhadprovedtobeeffectiveintheUnitedStatesduringthe
SecondWorldWar,andthatwaswhyitwasmodifiedandintroducedinto
schoolsafterthewar.Itadopts“asentence-basedapproachtotheteaching
ofgrammar”andemphasises“practiceasessentialforprogress”(Howatt
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TheDirectMethodwasmoresuccessfullyimplementedinprivatelanguageschools.
Foradetaileddiscussionoftheseandotherlanguageteachingmethods,seeLarsen-
-Freeman(2000),RichardsandRodgers(1986).
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