Richard Smith

Unfortunately I couldn't travel to be at the conference, due to family illness, so I recorded this video message as a substitute for my plenary, which was to have been on 'After Methods, What Then?' (the conference theme is 'EFL Teaching and Learning in the Post Methods Era')

Here is my pre-recorded 25-minute message, and below are some further links related to its contents

• Here is a link to the poem I cite at the beginning -- 'To a Mouse' by Robert Burns
• I talk about excessive past faith in Audiolingual Method and Communicative Language Teaching. For a new view of the history of methods, see this article just published today (Thursday 18 September 2014), written with A.P.R. Howatt
• Here are the names of the theorists I cite as influential in the 'post-methods movement': B. Kumaravadivelu; H.H. Stern; N.S. Prabhu; Alastair Pennycook; Adrian Holliday; Robert Phillipson; Suresh Canagarajah.
• Resources and networking for teachers of English in difficult circumstances
• Recent article on 'teacher agency' in difficult circumstances
• Teacher-research project in Chile
• Chapter on teacher-research project in Chile, written with Tom Connelly and Paula Rebolledo: Chapter 5 in this book
• Resources for teacher-research
• A brief article about learner autonomy
• Learner autonomy in large classes in Pakistan
• Learner autonomy in a large class in Cameroon
• Another talk, this time about why learner autonomy might be particularly appropriate in difficult circumstances, in developing country contexts
• A recent interview about some of the themes I addressed in this message
• Finally, here is a link to the part of Hamlet I quote from at the end