English Language Teaching-1 paper- 12 The Oral approach

1. Presented by : Prinjal Shiyal
Course : M. A. Sem. 3
Paper no. : 12
Enrolment no.: 2069108420190041
Email id.: prinjal00123@gmail.com
Submitted to : S. B. Grardi Department of English

2. The oral approach
 The oral approach or Situational Language Teaching
was developed by British applied linguistics from the
1930s to the 1960s.
 It known as a British approach also.
 It lacks constructive analysis for predicting the
problem of language learning.
 In British structuralist the situation in which language
is used was emphasized.

3.  The impact of the oral
approach has been long
lasting, and it has
shaped the design of
many widely used
EFL/SEL textbook and
courses.
 This is the careful
section of objects,
pictures, realia, actions,
gestures to demonstrate
the meaning of new
language items.

4. Roles of teachers and students Teacher –learner
roles,
 Teacher’s
responsibilities,
 Materials.

5. About this approach:
 This approach is simply used by children, students,
teachers etc…
 This is the Careful section of Vocabulary and gradation
of Grammar.
 Target language is the language of instruction.
 Language learning is seen as habit formation.
 Drill based manner of practicing patterns: for
example; questions – answers, pair practice, group
work.

6. The main characteristics
 Language teaching begins with spoken language.
 The target language is the language of the classroom.
 Reading and wrighting are introduced once sufficient
lexical and gramaticall basis is establish.
 New language points are introduced and practiced
situationally.

7. Continue…  This approach is based on
structural view of language
speech, structures and a
force on a set of basic
vocabulary items are seen as
the basis of language
teaching.
 Its emphasis on the
presentation of structures in
situations.

8. Continue…  Language teaching beings
with spoken language, that’s
why reading and writing are
introduced through this
approach.
 The approach gives primary
to the process over the
conditions of learning.

9. Vocabulary & Grammar control
 Focus on both vocabulary and reading is the most
salient trait of SLT.
 In fact, mastery of a set of high- frequency vocabulary
items is believed to lead to good reading skills.
 An analysis of English and a classification of its
prominent grammatical structures into sentence
patterns id believed to help learners internalize
grammatical rules.

10. Behavioristic background
 The act of receiving knowledge or
material.
 Repetition to fix that knowledge or
material in memory.
 The use of the knowledge or
material in actual practice until it
becomes a personal skill.

11. Continue…
 SLT objectives
 The syllabus
 Techniques
 Activities
 Typical lesson
 This res some of key points…

12. Advantages and disadvantages
 Teaching becomes very
effective, instructing .
 The subject matter can be
explained easily.
 This approach becomes
alive instead of a
burdensome process.
 Meaning is clear and easier
to understand for us.
 Is a good method if we use
in teaching pronunciation
of vocabulary.
 Its very difficult to found.
 A boring teacher who is
not sure what he is
teaching.
 The learner has no control
over the contents of the
learning.
 This method do not
account for the
fundamental characteristic
of language.