Methods of teaching foreign languages Introduction
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3.Methods of teaching foreign languages
Alternative Methods Alternative Methods came as a response to the traditional ones; they emphasized the role of the learner and focused on meaning. Such methods like Total Physical Response, Suggestopedia, and the Silent Way have failed to achieve the promising results and because of their ineffectiveness, Communicative Language Teaching came into prevalent use in the field of S/FLT. CONCLUSION This brief overview of some of the most important methods in English learning teaching, has provided me as a future high school English teacher with some tools that can be use in order to make lessons more fruitful and entertaining for the students. Although by law teachers are required to follow certain rules in order to plan and organize their classes, they still have some autonomy that allows them to decide which teaching method they choose to use. For that reason, this article intends to share some ideas about some of the approaches that can be adapted in a classroom and some techniques to help those classes be more beneficial for students. After this brief analysis I would like to conclude then pointing out the main ideas that have been taken form the studied methods. From grammar translation method it is important to bare in mind the importance given to grammar. For that reason and although it would have to be adapted in order to make it more learner-centred, it is important to focus on grammar during the different lessons in order to make sure the students have the necessary tools to correctly use the language following the different grammatical rules. Regarding the direct method, the main element that would be taken into account would be the fact that the classes were carried out in English. Although this seems to be the natural thing to do, it was not until the direct method started the trend that the classes were carried out in the students first language instead of the targeted language. And that is why this method is so important and why this methodology is important. Another important idea is having students read graded readers outside the classroom. By having students read at least one graded reader outside the classroom, they will improve their grammar and vocabulary in a significant way while reading a piece of English literature that will bring them closer to the Anglo-Saxon culture. What is more “graded readers allow for readers to learn unknown words from context”(Day, Omura and Hiramatsu, 1991: 142) so students will learn incidentally new concepts that will be worked with during the lessons. Hand in hand with the idea of using English as the only language spoken during the lessons, the audiolingual method has also an interesting feature that can be taken into consideration. The most important strategy that can be then taken from this method is the idea that students learn new words by repeating them. Thanks to this method, students will be able to learn the right way of pronouncing the words from the very first moment they encounter them. The TFR method introduced the idea of having fun during the lessons, and this is a very interesting way of attracting the students’ attention. Finally, from the present-day methods the ideas of encouraging creativity (CLT) and introducing pedagogical tasks (TBL) are also very important and teachers should take them into account to plan their lessons. All in all, after revising these different methods, different ideas can be selected from all of them in order to plan a lessons. This is an example of how even from methods that seem quite traditional and even unsophisticated nowadays, we can still benefit and take some ideas to design effective and innovative lessons. Download 281.72 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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