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Methods and Approaches to Language Teaching

Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Created by Paloma Goldberg.

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Paloma Goldberg

Methods and Approaches to Language Teaching

Paloma Goldberg

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Methods / 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

Suggestopedia

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.