NEW CHALLENGES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING: THE CULTURALLY-BASED SPEAKING CLASSES
NEW CHALLENGES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING: THE CULTURALLY-BASED SPEAKING CLASSES

Summary/Abstract: This paper starts from the premise that any classroom should be regarded as a social and cultural environment that confers a specific profile to students rather than viewing it as a group of learners with whom we can apply general methodology without any concern for such differentiation. While generalization may work within the theoretical frameworks only, practice gives evidence of a need for customized approaches. This is the bottom line idea of how I describe culturally-based speaking classes after experiencing classroom management in some universities from Romania, Greece and Turkey. As every trainee instructor, at the beginning of my career, I was tempted to think that giving similar lessons in different countries would produce the same results, until I acquired more experience as a teacher in the field. Thus, my paper proposes to elucidate why and how the change of social and cultural context also requires a change or adjustment of methods for teaching spoken skills and tutoring language students.

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