Humanistic Task-based Language Learning (MA thesis London)
For more than a century of English Language Teaching, humanistic principles in learning have been ignored for several reasons: firstly due to the imbryonic methodological insights of that time which were based mainly on teacher intuitions on what language teaching was all about rather than the learning process; and secondly, to the early and premature discoveries and experimentation in the field of Psychology.
Recently, although the picture has changed somewhat, mainly due to the developments in the st