Synthetic and Analytic Approaches in Language Education

Language and Education

Many approaches to second or foreign language tea

• Many approaches to second or foreign language teaching have been developed over the years. Thought these methods can differ significantly from one another, many experts believe that there is not single best method for teaching a second language. All methods have something to offer, and virtually any method can succeed with a gifted teacher who is a native or near,native speaker, motivated students, and appropriate teaching materials. All methods are most effective when they fit a given educational setting and when they are understood and embraced by the teacher.

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• Second language teaching methods fall into two broad categories: The synthetic approach and The analytic approach. As the name implies, the syntetic approach stresses the teaching of the gramatical, lexical, phonological, and funcional units of the language step by step. This is bottom-up method. An xample of the syntetic approach is the GRAMMAR TRANSLATION method favored up until the mind-1960s, in wich students learned list of vocabulary, verbparadigms and grammatical rules