Language and the Language Teacher; A Greed

Abstract

Like a “Rapid Results College”, the language teacher must produce quick results. His main preoccupation therefore tends to be with ways and means, tactics and strategies. Whether or not directly or indirectly, the kind of professional training undergone is responsible for, perhaps, over-exaggerating the importance of methodology it would be interesting to know. In any case this article is motivated by the conviction that it is impossible to exaggerate the importance of every language teacher’s concern with something else — something approaching “a philosophy of language”.