Sunday, November 30, 2014

UNIT 15

UNIT 15

Approaches to language teaching

The unit is mainly about to our view of language and our view of how language learning takes place, approaches that have had an important impact on teaching English, practices and materials. Let´s look at the most important for me and its characteristics:

Presentation Practice and Production: learner can´t make mistakes during the practice stage, the decision are taken only by the teacher about what and how to learn. This approaches contains activities like situational presentations, miming, drills and information gap activity.

Grammar translation method is the oldest one, t consist on working out what language means by applying rules, isolated sentences from L1 to L2 or vice versa, the emphasis in on grammatical accuracy . The language is view as a grammatical rules.

The next one is called CLIL (Content and language Integrated learning) .The lessons focus on the subject rather than on language therefore, language serves to communicate meaning. Language is mainly learnt through acquisition and through using it so the school subject is taught is the L2.
And finally the most known by all of my teachers who say that use it but some of them don´t do it. Communicative approaches´ task focus on communicative needs, fluency is more important accuracy and authentic material are often use in the classroom.    

As we can see some approaches are more developed in some areas than others
Me as a future teacher can create a mixture of the approaches, remember the learning styles, cousebooks and syllabus that influenced on the approaches that teacher can use.  
 For more information check this video:


Aproaches and methods inlanguage teaching, LTM 1G week 3, (2007), Emma Arthur Retrieved from:http://es.slideshare.net/emma.a/language-teaching-approaches-and-methods?related=1

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