Teaching Methods

The structural approach As a group and according to our investigation the structural approach as its name almost mentions it, this approach mainly asks the student to master the pattern of sentences; sort of similar like the grammar translation method and one of their goals; however, the structural approach It is more based on the way the sentences of the target language are structured, their grammatical order is what makes them look similar. It is also considered that language might be best learned through a scientific selection and also grading some of the grammatical structures or patterns of sentences and vocabulary. Some people think that while acquiring a target language through these kind of methods related to grammar; the learners will be able to develop a new way of critical thinking, just like the mathematician learners that like to see their learning process as structures and patterns in a logical way. Some experts from the XIX century stated that this approach is base...

The audio lingual method As a team and according to our research the audio lingual method has some similarities with the direct or natural method, some of these similarities might be that both of them focuses on spoken language; It is not its only characteristic but It is one that they share, as everyone could infer by this, students should be able to use the target language communicatively. One of the main and most important rules that students and teachers of this method should take  into account is the fact that no native language should be used in the classroom ( no mother tongue ). Teachers and students will be the ones in charge of making the target language learning process an interactive one, some examples of what has been previously mentioned are: actions, pictures or surrounding objects might be used to give meaning otherwise. Something that every student should be able to do at a certain moment of their learning process is the particular ability of learning to use ...

Grammar translation method As a team and according to our research the grammar translation method is one of the oldest ways of acquiring a target language. There are two goals that this method is looking forward to completing with full success, the two main objectives are: reading and writing, in other words it is needless to mention that their goal will never be acquiring the ability to communicate in the target language, or rather, students are considered successful if they can translate from one language into another. No student has to be concerned about improving their speaking and listening skills while almost zero attention to pronunciation is given. In this kind of method the only authority is the teacher and for them It is really important that the students get the correct answer as many times as possible; this might probably sound like teachers are actually engineers creating new computers instead of students, but It is just because of the method itself because students do...

The direct method According to the investigation made by the team; the direct method has as its main objective ( communicating using target language ) therefore, It is considered that students should learn how to think in target language, one of the most difficult but valuable goals that students should reach. It is also interesting that in this kind of method the role of teachers and students is to be more like partners in their teaching and learning process, this has of course a simple answer which is the interaction that has go both ways because as its name suggests; It’s a direct method. Every student has to know that one of their principles is that they are not allowed to use any kind of translation tool in their learning process, experts consider that the target language should be learned just like their mother tongue was, by inferring things on their own and interacting as much a s they can with the environment and people that surround them in certain way, this kind of metho...

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APPROACH, METHOD AND TECHNIQUE Language teaching is not an easy task, It is not something that can be acquired by an individual in just one day; in fact, It is definitely pure art the action of teaching someone something you know in a complete way with one hundred percent of effectiveness, and still, without being out of the topic, teaching a whole classroom taking into account that no one thinks the same way from others and do not learn the same way either, this is one of the reasons about why teachers have to have their own strategies to make everyone understand what they might be stating and teaching. First thing that We, as teachers must have pretty clear already is knowing what the word method means. What is method? About four decades ago Edward Anthony (1963) gave us a definition that has admirably withstood the rest of time. His concept of method was the second of three hierarchical elements, namely approach, method and technique. An approach, according to Anthony was a se...

Second Language Acquisition Language is the method of expressing ideas and emotions in the form of signs and symbols. These signs and symbols are used to encode and decode the information. There are many languages spoken in the world. The first language learned by a baby is his or her mother tongue. It is the language, which he or she listens to from his or her birth. Any other language learned or acquired is known as the second language. Second Language Learning Though most scholars use the terms “second language learning” and “language acquisition” interchangeably, actually these terms differ. Language learning refers to the formal learning of a language in the classroom. On the other hand, language acquisition means acquiring the language with little or no formal training or learning. For example: If you go to a foreign land where people speak a different language from your native language, you need to acquire that foreign language. It can be done with little fo...