Towards Individual Centered Foreign Language Teaching

Abstract

The never ceasing and rapid evolution in foreign language teaching (FLT) methodology and its alliance with new fields of thought and recent significant educational tenets obligate a new central change. The learner centered teaching mode which was the compulsory alternative of the teacher centered FLT has made vital contributions to the field. Individualization is hardly a new concept now.   Nevertheless, in actual teaching the learner centered mode has been to a great extent perceived as class centered or group centered teaching that does not deliberately concentrate on the individual learner. The recent educational theories about intelligence profiles of learners necessitate a new change of focus. Today, the personal realm of every single learner in the class should be valued more than ever in order to personalize FLT for more efficient, individual friendly learning. Individuals’ emotions, personal beliefs, and talents are important considerations. Every learner should feel that she or he is in the center of the foreign language learning tasks performed in and out of the classroom. This instructional dimension which is still being dealt quite inconclusively in terms of application should be entitled as “individual centered foreign language teaching.”

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