Class: March 26, 2012
1) The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching.
- The learner has to listen.
- The teacher has the control of the content.
- Language learning is habit-formation.
- It's useful for beginners.
- Put emphasis in grammar and pronunciation.
2) CLT Communicative Language teaching.
- Communicative competence.
- Contextualization (social-culture).
- Learner-centered and experience based.
- Meaning is paramount.
- Group work, pairs and interaction between students.
3) TPR Total Physical Response.
- Speech-action (repeat)
- Positive mood.
- Teacher plays an active aid about role.
- Student: listener and performer.
- Actives (roles plays, slide shows)
4) Suggestopedia Method
- Authoritative.
- Performance.
- Unconscious.
- Music.
- Therapy.
5) The Silent Way
- Responsibility.
- Autonomous.
- Grammatical Lexical Items are discovered by the
students.
- Experience Learning.
- Rods, charts, symbols.
6) The audio-lingual method
- Pattern Grammar: key words.
- Drills, method exercises.
- Structured.
- Foreign language.
- Phonetics, syntax, morphology.