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Teaching Methods and Approaches

A method is a specific set of techniques and activities used by a teacher to implement a broader theoretical approach to language teaching. An approach provides the underlying assumptions about language learning, while a method provides step-by-step procedures. Some common language teaching methods discussed in the text include the direct method, audiolingualism, notional-functional, communicative language teaching, the silent way, and immersion learning. Each method utilizes different techniques and focuses on particular skills or aspects of language.

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Teaching Methods and Approaches

A method is a specific set of techniques and activities used by a teacher to implement a broader theoretical approach to language teaching. An approach provides the underlying assumptions about language learning, while a method provides step-by-step procedures. Some common language teaching methods discussed in the text include the direct method, audiolingualism, notional-functional, communicative language teaching, the silent way, and immersion learning. Each method utilizes different techniques and focuses on particular skills or aspects of language.

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UNIVERSIDAD

TÉCNICA
PARTICULAR DE
LOJA

Unit 1: Teaching English methods


and approaches
An approach refers to a specific method or strategy used by a teacher to
facilitate learning among their students.

Method, on the other hand, is a set of procedures, i.e., a system that


spells out rather precisely how to teach a language. Methods are more
specific than approaches but less specific than techniques.
Concepts

Methods are typically compatible with one (or sometimes two)


approaches. It involves a set of strategies, techniques, and activities
that a teacher uses to engage students and help them acquire
knowledge and skills.

Some techniques are widely used and found in many methods (e.g.,
imitation and repetition); however, some techniques are specific to or
characteristic of a given method (e.g., using cuisinaire rods = the Silent
Way). The difference between an approach and a method is that an
approach is a broad theoretical framework, while a method is a specific
set of techniques and activities that the teacher uses to implement that
approach.
PLAN: A method is a plan for presenting the
language material to be learned and should be
Concepts
based upon a selected approach.

ASSUMPTION: An approach is a set of correlative


assumptions about the nature of language and
language learning.

TECHNIQUE==> TRICK: A technique is a very specific,


concrete stratagem or trick designed to accomplish
an immediate objective.

Further information:
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technique/
The direct method
Audiolingualism method

Notional Functional The Semantic Translation


Syllabus method Method

Communicative Language
The Silent Way approach
Teaching approach

Inmersion Learning
approach
Classroom instruction was conducted in the target language
only.

Only everyday vocabulary and sentences were taught.


Direct method

Oral-communication skills were built up based on questions-


and-answer exchanges between teacher and students.

Grammar was taught inductively.

Concrete vocabulary was taught through demonstration,


objects and pictures; abstract vocabulary was taught by
associating ideas.

Speech and listening comprehension were taught.

Special emphasis was put in correct pronunciation and


grammar.
Presentation

Audiolingualism
Drills Practice
method

Repetititon
The Notional Functional Syllabus method

Focuses on the functions of the language in


different contexts.

It is a system of capturing the most commonly


used phrases in a specific situation to learn
them.

Students first notice the situation and then


choose corresponding functions to use phrases
to express them according to the situation.
Notion Function Expression

Customer to shopkeeper Asking for the How much are


price. those pants?
Customer to shopkeeper Negotiating It seems a little
expensive.
Party Introductions Nice to meet you!
It places students directly in an environment, so
students immerse themselves in the language as if
they were leaving in an English speaking country.

It sees language as the main tool which is used to


Inmersion

approach
learning

immerse students completely within the subject.

The need to communicate forces them to use the


target language to express their ideas.
Students cannot rely on their native language.
Students understand language by context and
leave translation apart, they try to convey
meaning.
The Silent Way approach
Communicative Language teaching
(approach)

Language functions: inviting, agreeing


and disagreeing, suggesting,
complaining, apologyzing, describing,
narrating.

Exposure: Communicating real messages.


Students use sketch books for
drawing main concepts and write
meaningful phrases related to
those concepts using their first
language.

Teacher then translates


The those phrases into
It joins Conceptual Semantic grammatically correct
Semantics and Grammar ones; those phrases are
Translation Method Translatio copied next to the
n Method drawing and students
repeat them ten times

Once students have accumulated


several phrases, they start to use
them in real-life situations, they
use language while inductively
learn basic grammar.
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