The role of the teacher in three

different methods of language

teaching
 Communicative Approach/
Communicative Language Teaching
(CLT)
 The teacher as:

Organiser/ Facilitator
Monitor/ Independent participant
 Communicative Approach/
Communicative Language Teaching
(CLT)
The teacher facilitates students to student
interaction; teachers major responsibility is to
establish situations likely to promote communication.
The teacher acts as a facilitator in setting up
communicative activities and as an advisor during the
activities. He answers students questions and
monitoring their performance.
 Communicative Approach/
Communicative Language Teaching
(CLT)

He might make notes of students errors to be

worked on at a later time during more accuracy-based
activities.
He might be a co-communicator engaging in the
communicative activity along with students.
The Audiolingual
Method/Approach
 The teacher as:

Model
Controller
Corrector
The Audiolingual Method/Approach

Teacher is responsible for providing students with a

good model for imitation.
The teacher should be like an orchestra leader-
conducting, guiding, and controlling students
behavior in the target language.
The teacher initiates interaction and takes part in it.
The teacher corrects students mistakes.
The Grammat Translation
Method
The Grammat Translation Method

The teacher is the authority. The students do what

the teacher says.
He/She mainly teaches the students:
reading and writing,
how to translate from one language to another.
Gives grammar rules and examples
Correct mistakes
 Bibliography:

Diane Larsen Freeman, Techniques and Principles in

Language Teaching, Oxford University Press, 2000.