an investigation and pathology of foreign language methodology from the teachers’ viewpoints

there have been many theories and paradigms trying to provideanswers to the challenge of the best method. after the rise of manycolorful language teaching methods, in postmethod era, it waspostulated that there is no magic formula to teach a foreign languagebut that a localized methodology based on learners and teachers’ experiencewill have suitable results. in this article, after investigating teachers’pedagogical knowledge according to gatbonton model (1999), we have studied thepathology of teaching methodology based on the teachers’ viewpoints. to figureout teachers’ pedagogical knowledge, the present researchers observed thirtyfive efl teachers. after the pathology of teaching, teachers reportedthat toassess the quality of effective teaching, such criteria as learner management,teaching quality, educational output, expertise, personality and educationalpolicies should be taken into consideration. the observation of efl classesrevealed that there are some differences in novice and experienced teachers’pedagogical knowledge.