TEACHING METHODOLOGIES FOR EFL

TEACHING METHODOLOGIES FOR EFL

1. METHODOLOGY OF THE ENGLISH TEACHING

   • METHOD (Way to reach a purpose)
     • Approach
       • Nature of language
         • Definition of objectives and elaboration of program
       • Nature of language learning
         • Reasons to choose the procedure
     • Design (composed by)
       • Syllabus
       • Learner roles
       • Teacher roles
       • Materials
     • Procedure (techniques during the process)
       • Type of techniques
       • Type of exercises
       • Resources to implement the practice
   • METHODOLOGY (Way to reach a goal through a process)

2. THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

   • LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
     • Cognitive Theories
       • Active process of learning: ability, mental, store knowledge
     • Nativist Theories
       • Certain modes of perception, abilities and capacities are biologically given
     • Behavioristic Theories
       • Operant conditioning to response generalization
   • ATHEORETICAL STUDIES
     • Learning process of spoken to written language
   • LINGUISTICALLY VS LEARNING
     • Interested in the description of child languaje and interested in applying learning principles derived from experiments
   • FOUR CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES
     • Frecuency of stimuli
       • Omits the most frecuently words
     • Place of imitation
       • Poor imitation by his short term memory span
     • Role of expansion
       • Deliberate expansion of children’s language by adults
     • Function of meaning
       • Semantic difficulty rather than grammatical complexity
   • AN ASSESSMENT OF THE THEORIES
     • Lack of detail and lack of empirical validation.

3. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

   • DEFINITIONS
     • Language
       • Mean of communication
     • Learning
       • Help to learner performance
       • Influence in learners to learn more
     • Teaching
       • Transmission of knowledge
   • FIRST LANGUAGE
     • Behavioristic Theory
       • Operant conditioning (good or bad responses for stimulus)
     • Generative Theory
       • Nativist Approach (Innate language)
         • Pre - programmed since children born
       • Cognitive Approach
         • Scientific process of get of knowleadge into the environment
   • SECOND LANGUAGE
     • Classical Behaviorism Theory
       • Stimulus - response process
     • Neovehaviorism Theory
       • Good or bad activities done with reinforcement
     • Cognitive Learning Theory
       • Meaningful learning and at less one rote learning
     • Humanistic Psichology Theory
       • Based on human beings and aware to learn on their own way

4. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND BEGINNING READING

   • AFTER AGE SIX
     • Significant language development begings at 6 years with the school
   • DIFFERECES BETWEEN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND BEGINNING READING
     • * Language is gradualy acquired while learning to read has a sudden onset
     • * Anxiety to read with but no for speach
     • * Reading is formal and language informal
     • * Reading depends on special skills
     • * Abstraction to write
     • * Four controvertial issues are important to write but no for language

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