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2. Approaches, methods, procedures, and
techniques
Approach : this refers to “theories about the nature of language
and language learning that serve as the source of practices and
principles in language teaching”. It offers a model of language
competence. An approach describes how people acquire their
knowledge of the language and makes statements about
conditions which will promote successful language learning.
Method : a method is the practical realization of an approach.
Methods include various procedures and techniques as part of
their standard fare.
Procedure : a procedure is an ordered sequence of techniques.
A procedure is a sequence which can be described in terms
such as first you do this, then you do that… Smaller than a
method and bigger than technique.
3. Technique : a common technique when using video
material is called “silent viewing”. This is where the
teacher plays the video with no sound. Silent viewing
is a single activity rather than a sequence, and as
such is a technique rather than a whole procedure.
A term that is also used in discussions about
teaching is “model” – used to describe typical
procedures, usually for teachers in training. Such
models offer abstractions of these procedures,
designed to guide teaching practice.
4. The Grammar – Translation
Method
This is a method that has been used by
language teachers for many years.
At one time it was called Classical
Method,since it was first used in the teaching
of the classical languages,Latin and Greek.
Earlier in this century,it was used for the
purpose of helping students read and
appreciate foreign language literature.
5. The Grammar – Translation Method
Classes are taught in the students mother
tongue,with little active use of the target language;
Vocabulary is taught in the form of isolated word
lists;
Elaborate explanations of grammar are always
provided;
Reading of difficult text is begun early in the course of
study;
Little attention is paid to the content of text,which are
treated as exercises in grammatical analysis.
6. Audio-lingualism
Audio-lingual methodology owes its existence to the
Behaviourist models of learning using the Stimulus-
Response-Reinforcement model, it attempted, through
a continuous process of such positive reinforcement, to
engender good habits in language learners.
Audio-lingualism relied heavily on drills like substitution
to form these habits.
Habit-forming drills have remained popular among
teachers and students, and teachers who feel confident
with the linguistic restriction of such procedures
7. Presentation, Practice, and Production
A variation on Audio-lingualism in British-
based teaching and elsewhere is the
procedure most often referred to as PPP,
which stands for Presentation, Practice, and
Production. In this procedure the teacher
introduces a situation which contextualises
the language to be taught. The students now
practice the language using accurate
reproduction techniques such as choral
repetition, individual repetition, and cue-
response drills
8. PPP and alternatives to PPP
The PPP procedure came under a sustained attack in the
1990s.
Michael Lewis suggested that PPP was inadequate
because it reflected neither the nature of language nor
the nature of learning.
Jim Scrivener advanced what is perhaps the most
worrying aspect of PPP,the fact that it only describes one
kind of lesson;it is inadequate as a general proposal
concerning approaches to language in the classroom.
In response to these criticism many people have offered
variations on PPP and alternative to it: ARC, OHE/III,
ESA.
9. ARC
put forward by Jim Scrivener
stands for Authentic use, Restricted use and
Clarification and focus
Communicative activity will demonstrate authentic use;
elicted dialogue or guided writing will provoke
restricted use of language by students; finally
clarification language is that which the teacher and
students use to explain grammar,give
examples,analyse errors,elict or repeat things.
10. OHE/III
Michael Lewis claims that students should be
allowed to Observe (read or listen to
language) which will then provoke them to
Hypothesise about how the language works
before going on to the Experiment on the
basis of that hypothesis.
11. ESA
In the ESA model three components will usually be
present in any teaching sequence,whether of five,fifty
or a hundred minutes
E stands for Engage - students have to be engaged
emotionally
S stands for Study
A stands for Activate - any stage at which students are
encouraged to use all and/or any of the language they
know
12. The Communicative Approach
The communicative approach or
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is
the name which was given to a set of beliefs
which included not only a re-examination of
what aspects of language to teach but also a
shift in emphasis on how to teach!
13. Non-communicative activities Communicative activities
The communication continuum
No communicative desire
No communicative purpose
Form not content
One language item only
Teacher intervention
Materials control
A desire to communicate
A communicative purpose
Content not form
Variety of language
No teacher intervention
No materials control
14. Task-based learning (TBL)
Popularised by prof. Prabhu, who speculated
that students were likely to learn language if
they were thinking about a non-linguistic
problem.
Three basic stages of TBL according to Jane
Willis:
1. Pre task (introduction to topic and task)
2. Task cycle (task, planning and report)
3. Language focus (analysis, practice).
15. Four methods
These methods developed in the 1970s and
1980s as humanistic approaches to remove
psychological barrieis to learning.
1. Community Language Learning
- students sitting in a ciricle
- a counsellor or a knower
- making the utterance
16. 2. The Silent Way
- the teacher says as little
as possible
- interacting with physical
objects, especially with
Cuisenaire rods
- pointing to a phonemic chart
17. Georgi Lozanov
physical surroundings and atmosphere of the classroom are of a
vital importance;
the reason for our inefficiency is that we set up psychological
barriers to learning: we fear that we will be unable to perform,
that we will be limited in our ability to learn, that we will fail;
one result is that we do not use the full mental powers that we
have and according to Lozanov, we may be using only 5 – 10%
of our mental capacity
In order to make better use of our reserved capacity, the
limitations we think we have need to be ‘desuggested’
parent-children (teacher-student) relationship
three main parts: oral review, presentation and discussion,
concert session (listening to classic music)
3. Suggestopaedia
18. Suggestopaedia
Desuggestopedia/suggestopedia, the application of
suggestion to pedagogy, has been developed to help
students eliminate the feeling that they cannot be
successful or the negative association they may have
toward studying and, thus, help them overcome the
barriers to learning.
One of the ways the students’ menatal capacities are
stimulated is through integration of the fine arts.
19. Techniques
CLASSROOM SET-UP – the challenge for the teacher is to
create a classroom enivronment which is bright and cheerful.
(The teacher should try to provide as positive environment as
possible.)
PERIPHERAL LEARNING – this technique is based upon that
we percieve much more in our environment than that to which
we consciously attend. It is claimed that, by putting poster
containing grammatical information about the target language
on the classroom walls, students will absorb the necessary facts
effortlessly.
POSITIVE SUGGESTION – it’s the teacher resposibility to
orchestrate the suggestive factors in a learning situation,
thereby helping students break down the barriers to learning
that they bring with them. Teachers can do this through direct
and indirect means.
20. Techiques
BAROQUE MUSIC – it has a specific rhythm and a
pattern of 60 beats per minute, and Lozanov believed
it created a level of relaxed concentration that
facilitated the intake and retention of huge quantities
of material.
21. The originator of TPR, James Asher, worked from the
premise that adult second language learning could
have similar developmental patterns to that of child
acquisition.
Chlidren learn language from their speech through the
forms of commands, then adults will learn best in that
way too.
In responding to commands students get a lot of
comprehensible input, and in performing physical
actions they seem to echo the claims of Neuro-
linguistic programming that certain people benefit
greatly from kinaesthetic activity.
4. Total Physical Response (TPR)
22. Total Physical Response (TPR)
This method is developed to reduce stress people feel while
studying foreign languages. Learners are allowed to speak
when they are ready.
1. Using commands to direct behaviour
2. Role reversal
3. Action sequence
23. PRINCIPLES
1. The students' understanding of the target language should be
developed before speaking.
2. Students can initially learn one part of the language rapidly by
moving their bodies.
3. Feelings of success and low anxiety facilitate learning.
4. Language learning is more effective when it is fun.
5. Students are expected to make errors when they first begin
speaking. Teachers should be tolerant of them. Work on the fine
details of the language should be postponed until students have
become somewhat proficient.
24. HUMANISTIC TEACHING
Humanistic teaching has found a greater acceptance at the level of
procedures and activities, in which students are encouraged to make
use of their own lives and feelings in the classroom.
Such exercises have a long history and owe much to a work from
1970s called Caring and Sharing in the Foreign Language
Classroom by Gertrude Moscowitz in which many activities are
designed to make students feel good and remember happy times
while, at the same time, they practise grammar items.
When I was a child my favourite food was hamburger, or When I was
a child my favourite relative was my uncle. I was shown how to
crawl. I pushed out of my mother’s womb.
25. THE LEXICAL APPROACH
The lexical approach, discussed by Dave Willis and
popularised by the writer Michael Lewis is based on
the assertion that language doesn't consist of
traditional grammar and vocabulary, but also of
phrases, collocations, and idioms.
A lexical approach would steer us towards the
teaching of phrases which show words in
combination. Thus, instead of teaching will for the
future, we might instead have students focus on its
use in a series of archetypical utterances such as I'll
give you a ring.
26. METHODS AND CULTURE
A mismatch between „teacher intention and learner interpretation“.
Our attitudes to the language, and to the way it is taught, reflect
cultural biases and beliefs about how we should communicate and
how we should educate each other.
Many of the approaches and teaching methods are based on a very
western idea of what constitues “good learning“. For example,
American teachers working in other countries sometimes complain
that their students have nothing to say when in fact it is not an issue
of the student's intelligence, knowledge, or creativity which makes
them reluctant to communicate, but their educational culture.
Teachers need to understand student wants and expectations just
as much as they are determined to push their own methodological
beliefs. DISCUSSION!
27. MAKING CHOICES
Exposure to language: students need constant exposure to
language since this is a key component of language acquisition
Input: students need comprehensible input but this is not enough
in itself, they need some opportunity for noticing or
consciousness–raising to help students remember language facts.
CLT: communicative activities and task-based teaching offer real
learning benefits,
The affective variable: anxiety needs to be lowered for learning to
take place.
Discovery: where culturally appropriate, students should be
encouraged to discover things for themselves.
28. Grammar and lexis: showing how words combine together and
behave both semantically and grammatically is an important part of
any language learning programme.
Methodology and culture: teaching methodology is rooted in
popular culture. Therefore, compromise may be necessary.
Pragmatic eclecticism does not just mean that “anything goes“. On
the contrary, students have a right to expect that they are being
asked to do things for a reason, and that their teacher has some
aim in mind which he or she can, if asked, articulate clearly.
Teaching plans should always be designed to meet an aim or
aims.
29. PAIR WORK- CLOSURE
What seems to work in English classes will
depend upon the age and character-type of
learners, their cultural backgrounds, and the
level they are studying at – not to mention the
teacher's own beliefs and preferences!