Towards Individual Centered Foreign Language Teaching

The never ceasing and rapid evolution in foreign language teaching (FLT)methodology and its alliance with new fields of thought and recent significanteducational tenets obligate a new central change. The learner centered teaching modewhich was the compulsory alternative of the teacher centered FLT has made vitalcontributions 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 asclass centered or group centered teaching that does not deliberately concentrate on theindividual learner. The recent educational theories about intelligence profiles of learnersnecessitate a new change of focus. Today, the personal realm of every single learner inthe class should be valued more than ever in order to personalize FLT for moreefficient, individual friendly learning. Individuals’ emotions, personal beliefs, andtalents are important considerations. Every learner should feel that she or he is in thecenter 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 ofapplication should be entitled as “individual centered foreign language teaching.”