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The document outlines tasks for a class session on methods and approaches in English language teaching. It includes tasks that have students discuss how teaching methods affect learning and which methods effective teachers use. It also has students assess their own preferences for teaching methods by completing a questionnaire. The questionnaire results are filled into a table that matches responses to different teaching methods like grammar translation, audio-lingual, communicative language teaching, and task-based learning. Another task has students learn about the characteristics and advantages and disadvantages of various methods by watching a video. They also discuss questions about the nature of language and why there have been so many proposed teaching methods.

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Session 1 Methods (+)

The document outlines tasks for a class session on methods and approaches in English language teaching. It includes tasks that have students discuss how teaching methods affect learning and which methods effective teachers use. It also has students assess their own preferences for teaching methods by completing a questionnaire. The questionnaire results are filled into a table that matches responses to different teaching methods like grammar translation, audio-lingual, communicative language teaching, and task-based learning. Another task has students learn about the characteristics and advantages and disadvantages of various methods by watching a video. They also discuss questions about the nature of language and why there have been so many proposed teaching methods.

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Session 1

A brief outline and critique of methods and approaches in ELT

Task 1. Think of what you did or saw done the last time you visited a class. Would you say
the terms to characterize it best were ‘techniques’, ‘approaches’, ‘methods’, or what?

Task 2. Split into groups of six. Discuss the following questions and report the answers to
the class.
1. How teaching methods affect students?
2. What teaching methods do effective teachers use?
3. What do you know about the key characteristics of each method you have listed? What do
teachers and learners do in the classroom, and why?
At this point, do not worry if your knowledge of some of the details is a little hazy!

Task 3. Fill in the following questionnaire to assess your own sympathies for particular
methods. Tick the answer that suits your own style of language teaching best (even if it is
not the one you are supposed to be using). Try to tick only one answer for each question:
then fill them in on the grid that follows.
What Is Your Method of Language Teaching?
1. What is the chief goal of language teaching?
(a) the students should know the rules of the language ❑
(b) they should be able to behave in ordinary situations ❑
(c) they should be able to communicate with other people by understanding and transmitting
information ❑
(d) they should be able to carry out a range of tasks in the language ❑
(e) they should both know the rules and be able to behave and to communicate ❑
(f) they should become better people, emotionally and socially ❑

2. Which of these teaching techniques do you value most highly?


(a) explaining grammatical rules ❑

(b) mechanical drills ❑

(c) communicative tasks ❑

(d) meaning-based goal-oriented tasks ❑

(e) presentation and practice of functions, structures, etc. ❑

(f) discussion of controversial topics ❑

3. How would you describe the language you would teach the students in the classroom?
(a) rules about the language ❑

(b) grammatical patterns ❑

(c) language functions for communicating and solving tasks ❑

(d) ability to carry out tasks ❑

(e) grammatical structures and functional elements ❑

(f) a way of unveiling the student’s own personality ❑

4. Do you think the students are learning language chiefly by:


(a) consciously understanding the language rules ❑

(b) forming habits of using the language ❑

(c) communicating in the classroom ❑

(d) achieving tasks in the classroom ❑

(e) understanding rules, forming habits, and communicating ❑

(f) engaging in activities that are personally meaningful to them ❑

Now fill in your answers on the following. Report the results to the class.

Answer Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Teaching method


a grammar translation
b audio-lingual
c communicative
d task-based learning
e mainstream EFL
(presentation, substitution,
role-play)
f Others (suggestopedia, the
silent way etc.)

Task 3. Each teaching method is based on a particular vision of understanding the language
or the learning process, often using specific techniques and materials used in a set
sequence. 1. Watch the video lesson on teaching methods and fill in the table below. 2.
What are some of the advantages/disadvantages of each teaching method?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdGFFoBtj0Y

METHOD FOCUS CHARACTERISTICS


Grammar Translation

Direct
Audio-Lingual

Silent Way

Total Physical Response

Suggestopedia

Counselling (Community
Language Learning – CLL)

Communicative

Task Based Language


Teaching

Dogme

Content and Language


Integrated Learning

Task 4. Session round-up


• Discuss the questions below in groups.
1. What is the basic nature of language, and how will this affect the teaching method?
2. Why do you think there have been so many language teaching methods? Can students
really be learning language in so many ways? Or can a system as complex as language be
mastered in a single way?
3. Have you changed your attitude towards a choice of teaching methods after this class?
Why?

• Ask students to complete the statement:


1. Methods serve as …
2. Knowledge of teaching methods helps to …
3. Counselling is …
4. Silent Way is …
5. Total Physical Response is …
6. Suggestopedia is …

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