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“The postmethod condition empowers teachers to construct their own pedagogic knowledge through their own understanding, interpretation, and application.”

Teacher autonomy connects closely with Practicality, as teachers generate their own theories of practice, and Particularity, since autonomy allows them to adjust their methods to specific classroom contexts.

Why it matters?

-Promotes professional growth by trusting teachers to adapt to their unique classroom realities.

-Encourages reflection, innovation, and flexibility in teaching.

-Helps teachers respond to learners’ needs without being confined by rigid methodologies.

In the post-method era, teacher autonomy is not just encouraged, it’s essential for responsive, effective, and empowered teaching.

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Three pedagogical parameters of post-method pedagogy:

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Three pedagogical parameters of post-method pedagogy:

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1. Particularity
Teaching must respond to the specific cultural, institutional, and social realities of a classroom. What works in one context may not work in another.

2. Practicality
Teachers should be able to generate pedagogical knowledge from their own experience—not just apply theories developed elsewhere. It’s about connecting theory with practice.

3. Possibility
Inspired by critical pedagogy, this refers to empowering learners and teachers to challenge inequities, engage socially, and transform their realities through language education.

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1. Facilitate the advancement of a context-sensitive language education based on a true understanding of local linguistic, sociocultural and political particularities.

2. Rupture the realtionship between theorists and practitioners by enabling teachers to construct their own theory of practice.

3. Tap the sociopolitical consciousness that participants bring with them in order to aid their quests for identity formation and social transformation.

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Aspects of autonomy:

Academic autonomy: Learning becomes autonomous when learners are willing and able to take charge of their own learning. Learning strategies and styles opens up opportunities for learners to monitor their learning process and maximize their learning potential.

Social autonomy is interpersonal and is related to learners’ ability and willing ness to function effectively as cooperative members of a classroom community.” Among the strategies and activities associated with increasing metacognitive awareness and learning management skills are some that involve interaction with others”.

Liberatory autonomy: Empowers learners to be critical thinkers by actively seeking to help learners recognize sociopolitical impediments to realization of their full human potential and by providing them with the intellectual tools necessary to overcome those impediments.

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The term pedagogy is used with the intention to abroad issues about classroom strategies, institutional materials, curricular objectives, evaluation measures and mostly historical, political and sociocultural experiences that impact directly to the process of teaching and learning a second language.