Zusammenfassung der Ressource
METHODS
FOR
LANGUAGE
LEARNING
- THE EARLY
METHODS
- The
Grammar
translation
method
- emerged
- In Prussia at the end of the 18th century
- Features
- Students use mother lengue
- Vocabulary is taught in the form of lists of isolated words
- Attention on the development of reading and writing
- The teacher is the authority in the classroom
- Purposes
- IS to be able to read literature written in the target language
- The students acquire grammar rules and vocabulary
- Teacher role
- The teacher is the authority in the classroom
and the main element in the learning process
- Student role
- Memorization vocabulary
- Traslate sentences and texts from one language to another
- Advantages and
disadvantages
- Use in teaching English as a foreign language to another
- Development of writing and reading skills more
than speaking and listening skills.
- The learning process is based on the structures, the
vocabulary, grammar and direct traslation.
- Direct Method
- developed
- By J.S. Blackie in 1850
- Features
- The reading skill is developed through
practice along with speaking
- The native language should not be used in the classroom
- Purposes
- Is the communication
- Learning and develops student autonomy
- Students should use language in real contexts
- Grammar should be taught inductively
- The syllabus is based on situations or topics,
not on lingustic structures
- Teacher role
- Encourages students to learn how to
communicate in the target language
- Confortable evironment
- Student role
- Student should learn to think in the target language
- They can participate in an active way during the conversations
- Advantages and
disadvantages
- fluent speakers to face real
situations of communication
- The Classes can be passive if the teacher
does not motivate his/her students
- Reading Method
- emerged
- In 1920 and it was developed
by west and Coleman
- Propose
- Student is able to
understand and read text
- Student identify the meaning of words
- Features
- The Students were trained to
read the foreign language
- The teacher did not need to have oral
proficiency in the target language
- The students had to recognize some
verbs forms, tenses, negations and so on.
- teacher role
- Create situations where students
develop their reading comprehension
- Student role
- Comprehend and read
the text quickly
- Infer the meanig ounknown words
- Advantages
- Learners can learn many words
structures, verbs forms, tenses so on.
- The students develop some abilities
- predicting
- Infering
- Reading
- Expressing
- Identifying main ideas
- Disadvantages
- If focuses on only grammar
for teaching reading
- Audio - lingual
- emerged
- In the second world war
- Propose
- developing listening and speaking skills
which is a step away from the grammar
- Features
- It focuses on phonological, correct
pronunciation, stress, rhythm, and intonation.
- Writing was imitative, consisting of
transcriptions of word and diaogue sentences.
- Teacher role
- Use the target language communicative and
providing students with a good model for
imitation
- Student role
- Imitators of the teacher
- Advantages
- The teacher is to help students in
the development of oral fluency
- Languages skills are learned more effectively if they
are developed orally first, then in written form
- Disadvantages
- The reading and writing are very limited
- Students have to memorize and repeat dialogues about situations