The Natural Approach is a language teaching philosophy developed in the 1970s that focuses on developing basic communication skills through comprehension and speech production. It has three stages: comprehension, early production, and speech emergence. In the comprehension stage, activities are designed to teach students to understand words in context without knowing every word. In early production, students begin using English words to answer simple questions. As speech production improves, more complex answers and sentences are used. The Natural Approach rejects formal grammar instruction and focuses on meaningful use of language through activities and experiences.

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2. what is the natural
approach ?
background

3. In 1977, Tracy Tarrel a teacher Spanish in California outlined a proposal for a new
philosophy of language teaching which he called the Natural Approach.
He joined with Stephen
Krashen an applied
linguist at the University
of Southern California, in
elaborating a theoretical
rationale for the NA,
drawing on Krashen’s
influential theory of
second language
acquisition. They were
combined statement of
the principles and
practices of the NA
appeared in their book
The Natural Approach, in
1983.

4. THEORY OF LEARNING

6. b.
Particular
emphasizs is
laid on
language as
a set of
messages
that can be
understood
Theory of
language:
a. The
communica
tive view
of
language is
the view
behind the

7. THE NATURAL APPROACH IN
THE CLASSROOM
The Natural Approach is designed to
develop basic communication skills. The
development stages are :
a.Comprehension (preproduction),
b.Early Production, and
c.Speech Emergence.
This approach to teaching language has
been proven to be particularly effective
with limited English proficient students.

8. A.PREPODUCTION
In order to
maximize
opportunities for
comprehension
experiences.
natural approach
intruction ;
1.create activities
designed to teach
student to recognize the
meaning in words used
in meanigful contexts,
2. teach students to
guess at the meanig of
phrases without
knowing all of the words

9. B. EARLY SPEECH
• The students do not force production,
• The students begin using english words
to give;
a.Yes/no answer
b.One-word answer
c.List of words
d.Short pharses/ senteces

10. speech
production
will normally
improve in
both quatntity
and quallity.
a. preference ranking
b. games of all sorts
c. problem-solving using charts, tables
graphs, maps
d. advertisements and signs
e. group discussion
f. skits (finger plays, flannel boards,
puppets)
g. music, radio, television, film strips,
slides
h. writing exercises (especially Language
Experience Approach)
i. reading
j. culture
In general, we may classify

11. CONCLUTIONS
The natural approach belongs
to a traditional of language teaching
method based on observation and
interprestation of how learners acquire
both firts and second language in
nonformal setting. Such methods reject
the formal ( grammatical ) organization
of language as prerequisite to teaching.

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