Mind Map Gallery Methods and Approaches to Language Teaching
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Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Created by Paloma Goldberg.
Edited at 2021-06-16 00:19:57Methods / Approaches to Language Teaching
17th Century
Johann Comenius, Czech scholar and teacher.
First to introduce an inductive approach.
His goal was to teach students to use the language through imitation.
Learn through pictures and the practice of reading.
19th Century
Grammar-Translation Approach
Derived from the method of teaching Greek and Latin.
Explicitly focused on studying grammar.
Translate texts to read literature.
Late 19th Century
Direct Method
Teaching focused on speaking and listening in the foreign language.
Main objective: Develop communicative competence among students.
20th Century
1950s
Audiolingual Method
Based on theories of Behaviourism.
Learning meant using the language to form new habits.
Lessons focused on drills and getting feedback from teachers.
1960s
The Silent Way
The teacher should be silent and the learners encouraged to speak.
Language used for self-expression, thoughts, and feelings.
1970s
Communicative Language Teaching
As a reaction to grammar-oriented approaches.
Focus on communicative competence.
Knowing when and how to say what to whom.
Total Physical Response
Built around the coordination of speech and action.
To reduce stress people may feel while studying a foreign language.
Community Language Learning
Meant to understand students' feelings, physical reactions, desire to learn.
Teacher's role: a counsellor.
Eclectic Approach
A blend of different methods to teach a language.
Learner-centered
Teacher's role: facilitator.
1980s
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Learning is fostered by reaching an optimal state of alert relaxation
Learning happens accidentally and naturally.
Task-based Language Teaching
Students can learn language by doing tasks.
They are assessed in terms of whether they manage to complete the task.
21th Century
2000s
Dogme
Encourages to teach without textbooks.
Focus on language that emerges from conversation.
Content and Language Integrated Learning
Curriculum content and foreign languages are taught together.
A method that is quite popular.