Teaching nowadays

In the past teaching English was completely different from what it is nowadays. if we go back 10 years, teaching English focused on reading and writing, but no listening and speaking (as conversation or dialogues ). The learning-teaching process was teacher centered; it means that the teacher was the one who set the rules, choose the lesson and explain it alone without students interventions, students should be calm and sit silently and just listen to their teacher, there is no conversation. concerning grammar and vocabulary; grammar was taught separately; it means without a content. so the teacher put the grammatical rule, explains it then students do some exercises. Moreover, teachers tend to give a long list of vocabulary, so students must memorize it.
Nowadays, teaching is completely different, starting with the strategies and the methods, which are many, teachers should always use different kinds of techniques and never stick to one. our challenge is how to integrate the 4 skills in each and every lesson! listening skill has the same (or a little bit more) importance of the other skill according to Advanced Methods course, for example when we engaged in communication, 9% is devoted to writing, 16% to reading, 30% to speaking, and 45% to listening. moreover, as teachers we should create a positive atmosphere to encourage students engage in dialogues and use their L2 effectively. this will take us to another issue that is students centered not teacher centered; so students are the members in conversation, they can also choose the lesson and the topic that they want to talk about. The teacher can help by collecting data about students and knowing their interests to design such activities about the topic that they like. Vocabulary and grammar should be presented in a meaningful content.
there are a lot of issues related to teaching-learning process but what we are sure about is these issues are developing and improving everyday.