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    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    What language was the most studied language 500


    years ago?
    => Latin
    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    How were English, Italian and French taught at


    school in the 18th century?
    => They were taught the same way Latin was
    taught.
    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    What is the name of the method used to teach


    Latin, English, French and Italian in the 18 th
    century?
    => Grammar Translation Method.
    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    Why was the Grammar-Translation method started


    to receive criticism in mid 19th century?
    => Because the demand for oral proficiency
    increased at the time.
    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    In rejection of the Grammar-Translation method,


    what did Prendergast propose?

    => The first ‘Structural Syllabus’.


    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    When was the Reform Movement start?

    Toward the end of the 19th century.


    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    According to educators who followed the Reform


    Movement, what was the goal of language
    learning?
    => To possess speaking proficiency.
    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    Why was Marcel’s and Gouin’s reform ideas were


    not developed into a widely recognized method?

    Because at that time there were few teacher


    associations, conferences and journals.
    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    Name some leading reformers.

    Sweet, Vietor, and Passy.


    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    Reformers’ ideas laid foundation for what


    methods?

    Natural methods.
    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    Which method is the most well-known natural


    method?

    The Direct Method.


    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    Why was it difficult to implement the Direct


    method in public secondary school education?

    Because it overemphasizes the similarities


    between naturalistic first language learning and
    classroom foreign language learning.
    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    How do we usually call the period after the Direct


    method (since early 20th century)?

    The method era.


    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    Name some of the methods that were proposed in


    early 20th century.

    Audiolingual Method, the Oral Approach, the


    Situational Method, Communicative Approach,
    Total Physical Response, Community Language
    Learning, Desuggestopedia, and the Silent Way
    HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    Name a method that has recently been proposed.

    Content and Language Integrated Learning.


    APPROACH VS. METHOD. TECHNIQUE

    Approach
    Method
    Technique
    DEFINITIONS
    An approach is a set of assumptions, beliefs about language and language learning.

    A method is a plan for systematic presentation of language. It shows the way we want
    to teach language, how we select and arrange the content to teach, the teacher’s roles,
    the learners’ roles. A method is an application of an approach in the context of
    language teaching.

    A technique is a tactic, a strategy, a procedure to execute a method. It concerns what


    happens during the class time.
    EXAMPLES
    The Structural View of Language is an approach. It holds that language is a system of
    structurally related elements, so the target of language learning is to master these
    elements.

    Audiolingual is a method that is underpinned by the Structural View of Language.

    Drill is a technique commonly used in Audiolingual Method. With this technique,


    students repeat a phrase/sentence again and again until they reach the satisfactory
    level of accuracy.
    A. approach B. method C. technique

    1. A set of principles or ideas about the nature of language


    learning.

    2. Teaching tricks or way of doing something in the classroom


    such as eliciting, drilling and so on.

    3. The plan for the teaching of language which is consistent with


    the approach.
    APPROACH, METHOD OR TECHNIQUE?
    Beliefs about how languages are learned
    Selection of the content to be taught
    Procedures carried out in the classroom
    Choices of language skills to focus on
    The way teachers sequence the content of a course
    Views of how language is structured
    Teacher’s roles and learners’ roles
    Strategies used by the teacher in class
    Techniqu
    e
    Method
    Techniqu
    e
    Approach
    Techniqu
    e
    Method
    Techniqu
    e
    APPROAC The Natural View
    HES TO
    ENGLISH The Functional View
    LANGUAG The Interactional
    E View
    TEACHIN
    G Others
    Grammar Translation
    METHODS Audio-Lingual Method
    IN The Total Physical Response
    ENGLISH Communicative Language Teaching
    LANGUAG Desuggestopedia
    E The Community Language Learning

    TEACHIN The Direct method


    The Silent Way
    G Others
    TECHNIQ Brainstorming
    UES IN Drill
    ENGLISH
    LANGUAG Substitution
    E
    TEACHIN Scaffolding
    G Others

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