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[Earthworm_Jimbo]

[Bud Powell]

Most of us are communicative method teachers rather than linguistics-trained.

One might teach spoken language from a linguistic approach only on the most basic level such as the phoneme and how it is produced. Once you get out of the mouth, most of linguistic theory doesn't really apply until one attains a certain mastery. THEN it becomes very interesting, but not wholly necessary outside of semantics.

One need not have a degree in linguistics to teach EFL. One should know a few important facts, but on the beginning level, once you leave the most basic theories and practices, linguistics is of little use in the primary and most of the secondary levels.

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

The paddy wagon.