Different approaches to teach english as a second language
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2. Pioneer Leonard Bloomfield.
Describe human language and identify
structural characteristics.
Skinner thought speaker is locus of verbal
behavior, not cause,
Organism conditioned correct respond
depend on stimuli.
3. •Noam Chomsky influenced throught
generative-transformational.
•Language
Independent,
universal basis,
innate
Competence:
underlying knowledge
Performance:
How actually people use
language
4. Jean Pieget and Lev Vygotsky.
Every Human being construct knowledge
based on experience.
Generate information.
Engaged in collaborative group, in social
practices.
Cognitive development= solidarity act
Social factors develop the behavior of people
in different context.
5. Explain new words and actions in target
language.
-Drills and building of audio skill.
It has directive from behaviorism.
6. Only target language, not native language.
Pantomiming
Real object and situations to understand.
Find out grammatical rules.
Speaking skill develops.
7. Students can read literature.
Then translate one language to the target
language.
Deductive learning of grammar rules.
Teacher is authority.
Help to develop mind.
8. Charles Curran, 1972.
Prizing every student in the course.
Total integration and support.
Anxiety lessed.
Pay attention to needs of students.
Forter automnomous learning.
9. Lozanov 1979.
Use of music is essential to learn in this
method.
Baroc music creates a state of high
concentration.
Students could asume different personalities.
While music is playing, students are reading
or learning new vocabulary.
10. Caleb Gattegno
Learner discovers and creates.
Physical objects help to learn.
Learning = solving problem with the help of
the material.
Students needs to cooperatte to solve
problems.
Use of cusinere rods.
11. James Asher, 1977.
Great deal of listening and acting.
Students receive orders and do it.
In time, students start doing verbal
sentences.
It is more used as activity classroom.
12. Stephen Krashen, 1982
Learner should be relaxed.
Everyday language situations, conversations,
etc.
Teacher provide comprehensible input.
There is a silent period.
Student will speak when he/she feels ready to
do it.
13. Error is accessed, processed and evaluated.
In order to Identify devition (phonological,
lexica, etc)
Then teacher will identify its source to treat
it.
Analize how deeply is deviation to give more
explanation.
Decide if the deviation is interpretable or not.
Teacher will suppose if it is a performance
slip or competence error
14. Analyze student´s language
Your pedagogical focus, will tell you to treat
the deviation or not.
Consider communicative context.
Style as a teacher come to scene, cero
mistakes or later correction.
15. Construct communicative competence.
Student under fuctional use of language.
For students value language meaning and utility.
Fluence and accuracy are importtant principles.