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In his Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics, Dick Allwright (2006, Chapter 1 in this volume) makes the case that we have moved from seeing language teaching and learning as a singular, unified undertaking to one that is multi-faceted, messy and even chaotic (the latter are my words, not his.) Allwright describes this shift as a movement from simplicity to complexity, noting that:
Another way of looking at the shift from prescription to description and then to understanding is to think of it more generally as a move from a simplistic way of looking at the world … towards a recognition of the essential and irreducible complexity of the phenomenon of classroom language learning and teaching. (Allwright, 2006)
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Freeman, D. (2006). Teaching and Learning in ‘The Age of Reform’: The Problem of the Verb. In: Gieve, S., Miller, I.K. (eds) Understanding the Language Classroom. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523166_13
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