I am a big believer in contextualized education. This evening I taught my Carpinteria Fina class at Laney College. Basically, I helped them compose some answers to 8 very basic interview questions and we read some advice on pre, during, and post interview behavior. The students were very happy with the class and they felt they got a lot of useful advice. In this class I contextualize by using what they need to teach English--so by engaging them with a subject like interview questions, they also got an English lesson. I believe this is how we should teach English.

I want to mention an important "methodology" used in Europe. It's called CLIL--which is a higher level of what I am talking about above. In CLIL the language teacher has to be a specialist in another field as well as language. Here is a website about it. CLIL

Sonia Nieto came to Laney yesterday (sponsored by Mills College) Great Speech. She says multicultural education is about knowing your students. She talked about some great K-12 teachers she interviewed. She is actually against studying methodology. 

Here's a website that has more about her ideas.
http://www.learner.org/workshops/tml/workshop1/commentary3.html