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People often say that language teaching is an art. If all
they mean when they say this is that it is a highly skilled
activity which is learnt by careful observation and patient
practice, then it is a harmless platitude. ---- We call a
particular practical activity an art when it cannot be
carried out successfully by following a set of rules of
thumb, when our knowledge of all the factors involved is
incomplete and when, consequently, many of the
decisions on how to proceed must be left to the private
knowledge and experience of the practitioner. Language
teaching is an activity of this sort. It involves many
different considerations, or, in technical language,
variables, the relative importance, or value of which,
even if we are aware of them all, cannot yet readily be
assessed or quantified.
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However, there is a considerable body of knowledge available about the nature of human language, about how it is learned and what part it plays in the community. |
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There are, for example, many factors to be taken into account in any teaching task: the aptitude and personality of pupils, their intellectual capacities, or motivation towards learning. |
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But what often lies behind the assertion is that science and art are mutually exclusive and that therefore science can play no part in language teaching. |
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Nevertheless, if we interpret language teaching in the very broadest sense, to include all the planning and decision-making, then there may be an element of applied linguistics. |
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As often said, the study of a language is beset by the difficulty that it deals with something utterly familiar, like the study of any other characteristic of man. |