It is based like the practice with the language that we want to learn with different task that students can do in the classroom or out this, the main objective is learned by tasks, the teachers ask to students make some activities like talk with other persons in the language they want to learn, or … Continue reading Task based language learning
This method was developed around 1970 in USA, in this the teachers make the roll of advice for the students while they cheer up to work together, helping and learning between them, this method has the main objective to alleviate the anxiety and threat so often by language learning is something described as ¨counselling learning¨. … Continue reading Community language learning
The silent way is a language teaching method created by Caleb Gattegno in 1963 in which the teacher is allowed to let the students make the work by themselves, developing their own criteria. It does not matter is the student make mistakes, from mistakes is how the student will learn. There are some steps for … Continue reading The silent way
The communicative language teaching is an approach of a second-foreign language in which interaction is one of the most important activities that have to be developed by the students. There can be implied different activities to fulfill with the CLT competences. For example, practicing questions by interacting and asking to students to find out personal … Continue reading Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
Is a method used by teachers to teach vocabulary concepts or a language using the physical movements and mimics to create an image in the learner’s mind about what is learning and this can also help them to remember not just the vocabulary, but to remember the concept of what is learning. This method is … Continue reading Total Physical Response (TPR)
The lexical approach is a way of analyzing and teaching language based on the idea that it is made up of lexical units rather than grammatical structures. The units are words, chunks formed by collocations, and fixed phrases, in the classroom a simple activity to incorporate the lexical approach is to encourage learners to identify … Continue reading Lexical approach
in the Suggestopedia the teacher has to try to has the students in a comfortable place and environment using many techniques including the music and art, for this reason some teacher make theater plays with the students, but the students just can use the language that are learning. This make the class funny for the … Continue reading Suggestopedia
Is based on the assumption that language teaching can best be done through systematic selection and grading of structures or sentence patterns. It was widely implemented in the United States in the 1950s. The basic principle underlying the approach is: Language is speech, not writing. It is important to design courses around selected and graded … Continue reading The structural approach
Used for teaching a foreign language, the audio-lingual method is one of the most important methods to teach a new language, as many teachers in the world, they have decided to keep teaching in the same methodology as it was taught 60 years ago. Nowadays, you can count the few teachers that uses a different … Continue reading The audio-lingual method
According to Claude Germain, Professor Emeritus at the University of Quebec at Montreal, people in the 18th century opted to learn other languages using the original translation technique of word by word, which went from the foreign language (L2) to an exact translation in their native language (L1). This made more sense to them to … Continue reading Grammar Translation Method
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