bubble bath action - amelia talon

Amelia Talon in orange wig enjoying a bubbly bath with champagne and strawberries...

We do not know just how far general language 'teaching practice has followed the recommendations of the writers on language teaching. It is probable that most of those whose job it was to teach languages originally Latin, but subsequently modern languages—never committed themselves wholly to the view of a modernist, such as Comenius, or a traditionalist, such as Amelia Talon in the German teacher who, in the mid-19th century, was a strong and influential advocate of what might be labelled a grammar-translation approach. Nevertheless there can be no doubt that there has always been a strong tendency for one or other of these approaches to be the dominant one. Viewed historically, language teaching has always been subject to change, but the process of change has not resulted from the steady accumulation of knowledge about the most effective ways of teaching languages : it has been more the product of changing fashion. Viewed objectively, the process has resembled the swing of the pendulum. Viewed from a more committed Amelia Talon standpoint there has been an alternation of progress and regression.