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Methods 1
Methods 1
Language Teaching
Theoretical Framework for Foreign Language
Teaching (Khung lý luận về dạy & học ngoại ngữ)
• How to facilitate
• Language Curriculum second language
• Skills/competence learning process?
• What teaching and
learning methods,
principles, activities?
WHAT HOW
WHERE-
WHO
WHEN
• Learner
differences in • Under what
needs, motivation, conditions?
styles,…. • What context?
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Distinction
Edward Anthony’s Model (1963)
Coherent link
between
method principles and
techniques
• Background
• Grammar - Translation
• Language teaching innovations in the 19th century
-The Direct Method
- Methods and post-methods eras
• Why we should study the history of methods and
approaches
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Introduction
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Before 19th century
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Grammar-Translation method
Goal -intellectual development
-read the literature in the
target language
Skill & language focus -R &W
-G & Voc
Typical procedures -present -> practice rules in
form of grammar exercises
and translation
Accuracy/fluency Accuracy
• 1840s-1940s
• Today still widely used in some parts of the world
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Innovations in 19th century: The Reform movement
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Gouin’s approach
Example of opening-the-door
• His belief: children learn actions
language by using language
to accomplish a series of
actions
• Approach: Presenting oral
language through themes or
situations and ‘series’ of
actions
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• Linguists began to emphasize the role of speech rather
than written words.
• Speech patterns were basic elements of language.
• Training precise pronunciation was stressed.
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Summary of views in the late 19th century
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The Direct Method
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Principles
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Features of Direct Method
Goal Oral communication
skills
Skill & language focus Speaking and
listening, everyday
voc and sentences
How language is taught Inductively,
demonstrate and act
Accuracy/fluency Accuracy (correct
pronunciation + gram)
Medium of instruction The target language
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Video
• https://youtu.be/VUUbfHT0pws
Drawbacks of the direct method
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The Methods era
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Assumptions of the methods era
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The Audiolingual Method
Background
Phonemes/sounds
phrases
clauses
sentences
Key characteristics/principles
• Repetition drill
• Substitution drill
• Question-answer drill
• Dialogue drill
• Role play
• Dialogue retelling or writing
Drill 1
Drill 2
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz0TPDUz3FU
Strengths and weaknesses
1. swimming
2. jogging
3. watching TV
4. talking
5. laughing
6. playing cards
7. listening to music
8. cleaning the table
9. brushing teeth
10. flying a kite
Situational Language Teaching
Structural-situational approach
Developed during 1930s- 1960s by
British applied linguists
Key principles
Techniques