Authority, Mystery, and Miracle in Tesol

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" AUTHORITY, MYSTERY, AND MIRACLE IN TESOL
Whether a behavioristic or humanistic approach is taken towards teaching and learning a foreign language, the fact remains that there are more questions than answers regarding how to teach and how one learns. Teaching--as all endeavors affecting human destiny--is as much an art as a science. There is no shortage of proposed ways to help modify human behaviors: methods come and go and come back ill-disguised as one or another scholar or pseudo-scholar rediscovers the light bulb. As to learning, we are only beginning to discern some of its mechanisms in some people who, in some situations and in some contexts, try and acquire some knowledge or some skills. Linguists fail to understand that linguistics is neither psychology nor pedagogy. Psychologists fail to admit that to know something is not to know.."

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