Oral presentations

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.