Tradition teachers who use books, and the new ones who use electronic books (they’re still books) – are like the old vacuum cleaner salesmen. They go door to door (student to student) selling their boring wares (books). They go from neighborhood to neighborhood in an old jalopy. They are outmoded and boring.
Teachers who stress communication skills in the target language and genuine group work and especially comprehensible input in the classroom, on the other hand, reflect the speed of the computer age, but in real linguistic fashion. They have the speed of the computer age without the detritus of the computer. Such teachers – that would be us – teach language at lightening fast rates of speed compared to the old vacuum cleaner salesmen.
