Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (presentations)

KEYWORDS


The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching:

• The learner has to listen and repeat
• The teacher has the control of the content
• Language learning is habit - formation
• It is useful for beginners
• Pur emphasis in grammar and pronunciation

Communicative Language Teaching:

• Communicative competence
• Contextualization (social - culture)
• Learner- centered and experience based
• Meaning is paramount
• Group and pair work, interaction between students.

Total Physical Response

Click Here to see Our Presentation  ( Camila C., Cynthia & Yessenia)

TPR Video

Practical work

-Type of school: particular-subvencionado (Rebeca Fernández)
-Number of students per classroom: 31 students
-Number of hours a week: 4 hours

-Textbook: In this school teacher used the textbook given for MINEDUC, every classes students did the activities in this textbook.

The nature of approach and methods

In this chapter we saw the nature  of methods and to explore the relationship between theory and practice a method.

Approach and Method


In nineteentn century ->  referring to general principles and theories:

• How language are learned?
• How knowledge of language is represented and organized in the memory?
• How language itself is structured?

                                                    they elaborated principles

Henry Sweet (1845 - 1912)              and accountable  approaches

Otto Jespersen (1860 - 1943) -> of language teaching programs,

Harold Palmer (1877 - 1949)                 courses, materials, etc...

Introduction

What is methodology?

"Methodology can properly refer to the theoretical analysis of the methods appropiate to a field of study or to the body of methods and principles particular to a branch of knowledge." (The free dictionary)  

Methodology is a process where the future teachers have to find the techniques and tools necessary for achieve, they have to the responsability to choose the correct way.