AN INFORMED ECLECTIC APPROACH It should be clear from the foregoing that as both informed and eclectic teacher, you think ig terms of a number of possible pedagogical options your disposal for tailoring classes to particular contexts. Your approach, or rationaleit for language learning and teaching, therefore takes on great importance. Your approach includes a number of basic principles of learning and teaching (such as those that will be elaborated in Chapter 4) on which you can rely for designing and evaluating classroom lessons, Your approach to language-teaching method- ology a theoretically well-informed global understanding of the process of learning and teaching. It is inspirefby the interconnection of all your reading and observing and discussing and teaching, and that interconnection underlies everything that you do in the classroom. But your approach to language pedagogy is not just a set of static princi- ples "set in stone." It is, in fact, a dvnamic composite of well-informed beliefs that change across time (as you learn more and more about the art of teaching) and that teaching. The interaction between your approach and your classroom practice is the key to effective, authentic teaching. If you have little or experience in teaching and are perhaps now in a teacher education program, you may feel you cannot yet describe your own approach to L2 learning and teaching. On the other hand, you might just surprise yourself at the intuitions you already have about pedagogical foundations. adapt themselves to whatever situated contexts in which you are teaching.The interaction between your approach and your classroom practice is the key to effective,authentic teaching.If you have little or no experience in teaching and are perhaps now in a teacher education program,you may feel you cannot yet describe your own approach to L2 learning and teaching.On the other band,you might just surprise yourself at the intuitions you already have about pedagogical foundations.