ELT Methodology I.

Learning "English Language Teaching" is the most important issue in our department "EFL". The course ELT Methodology I is the first course I've taken in the way learning ELT. Alev Hoca, made us present the course week by week, she let us think and find a solution when there was a problem. Problem here was generally created by Alev Hoca in order to observe how we react against that. I can say that we have covered the course with eclectic approach; that is, as we covered the methods and their approaches, we performed the methods by considering their approaches in fron of the class, by including our friends as considering them our students. So, we experienced behaviorist, constructivist, cognitivist and social psychologist approaches. We have seen the upsides and downsides of the approaches when used as only. Eclectic requires more then one approach use in classroom. Also Alev Hoca claimed that the combination of the methods requires this eclectic way of teaching. When it comes to the technological or normal materials that used in class, videos only demonstrated by Alev hoca and she wanted us to use the materials that the methods require. We did so, also she let us use various creative materials such as balloons, weird hats, toys, sometimes food etc. By doing so, I have learnt well the students' and the teacher's role, what the methods require by considering the approaches, the benefits of eclectic teaching, the materials that support our teaching, the difference among student centered, teacher centered and balanced teaching.