Focus: Grammar.

Goal: Read literature from English speaking countries.

Constant use of L1.

Important macroskills: Reading and writing.

Goal: To make the learning process more natural. Simmilar to the acquisition of L1.

Important macroskills: Listening and speaking.

Lessons exclusively in English.

Based on the psychological theory of behaviourism (stimulus-response-feedback)

Focus: Forming new habits and getting rid of old ones from L1.

Use of drills and repetition

Based on cognitive psychology

Language learning involves active mental processes

The acquisition of the language is subconscious.

Use of drills.

The Silent Way

Suggestopaedia

Community Language Learning

Goal: Learning lexical phrases.

Teaching of fixed expressions which usually occur in dialogues

Use of authentic material

Learning is more successful if it is associated with physical movement acitivities.

Used especially in child language acquisition.

Use of the imperative mode.

The acquisition of the language is reached by successfully completing tasks.

Teacher role: Facilitator.

Assessment of learning: If students could complete the tasks or not.

The 4 macroskills are equally important.

Learning as a collaborative process (learners-learners and learners-teacher)

Teachers can mix different approaches and techniques from different methods.

Focus: Learners' needs and goals.

Focus: Using English in real contexts.

Goal: To teach students how to use the language.

Use of imitation instead of following rules.

Language is taught by using pictures and examples.

Teaching of explicit rules to learn the language.

Based on rote learning

Focus on grammar