A Principle Approach
Through the 1970s and into the early 1980s, there was a good deal of hoopla about the “designer methods” . even though they were not widely adopted standards practice, they were nevertheless symbolic of a profession at least partially caught up in a mad scramble to invent a new methods when the very concept f methods were eroding under our feet.
Two Principles
I would like to suggest that viable current approaches to language teaching are “principled” in that there is perhaps a finite number of general research-based principles on which classroom practice is grounded.