Investigating Instructors' Perspectives Towards Student-Centered Learning

In this nonstop technologically and intellectually advanced world, researchers, educators and scholars have to compromise between that and the students' needs to have complete and perfect educational process. Student-Centered Learning (SCL) is one of the most recent trends in pedagogical field since it turns the student to the core of the learning process. The debate about the effectiveness of SCL is still on. Empirical studies have been conducted to enhance the positiveness of SCL. In this study, the researcher has pointed out how SCL has made quite difference in teaching styles and created active learning environment.In the study the researcher attempts to investigate the instructors' perspectives towards SCL in teaching English language. The importance of communication in second language rises from the point of producing sentences that are grammatically correct and meaningful. Some researchers may claim that in the recent approaches, grammar is as important as communication; it is not necessary that the sentence is grammatically correct but it should be meaningful. This study is just a step in the path of modern teaching methodologies.