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The Grammar-Translation method ✔✔Students have to memorise grammar rules and vocabulary
and practise by translating sentences from their mother tongue into the foreign language. There is
little time spent developing oral skills.
Direct Method or Oral method or Natural method ✔✔This method advocates teaching in only
the target language. This method also focuses on teaching oral skills, practice in having
conversations, and improving pronunciation. Writing and reading is developed later. Grammar is
learnt using the inductive approach.
Audio-Lingual method ✔✔This is a drilling method where a student listens and then repeats.
Students practise different dialogues for different situations
Structural-Situational method ✔✔A model pattern is introduced and often practised with drilling.
However, context is added to the scenarios. Grammatical rules are learnt one at a time.
, Task Based Learning ✔✔With this form of learning, the students are given a task and try to work
out the structure themselves. Often there is no formal instruction and students must find the
solution themselves.
Silent Way ✔✔he teacher will say as little as possible and encourages students to create their
own language, prompted by physical objects.
Immersion: ✔✔students are immersed in English throughout the day in school. They are taught
all subjects in English. This method is often used in Asian schools.
Lexical Approach ✔✔In this approach, the students are taught the most commonly used lexical
chunks of words and structures. The idea is that common phrases are taught
Eclectic Approach ✔✔all of the above teaching methods and bits from the Communicative
Approach below and uses styles which suit learners at different levels.
Communicative Approach ✔✔Drilling is a form of repetition, getting students to repeat after
you. Drilling comes from the behaviourist theorists of the 1950's who concluded that habit
forming was a good way to learn a new language
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The Grammar-Translation method ✔✔Students have to memorise grammar rules and vocabulary
and practise by translating sentences from their mother tongue into the foreign language. There is
little time spent developing oral skills.
Direct Method or Oral method or Natural method ✔✔This method advocates teaching in only
the target language. This method also focuses on teaching oral skills, practice in having
conversations, and improving pronunciation. Writing and reading is developed later. Grammar is
learnt using the inductive approach.
Audio-Lingual method ✔✔This is a drilling method where a student listens and then repeats.
Students practise different dialogues for different situations
Structural-Situational method ✔✔A model pattern is introduced and often practised with drilling.
However, context is added to the scenarios. Grammatical rules are learnt one at a time.
, Task Based Learning ✔✔With this form of learning, the students are given a task and try to work
out the structure themselves. Often there is no formal instruction and students must find the
solution themselves.
Silent Way ✔✔he teacher will say as little as possible and encourages students to create their
own language, prompted by physical objects.
Immersion: ✔✔students are immersed in English throughout the day in school. They are taught
all subjects in English. This method is often used in Asian schools.
Lexical Approach ✔✔In this approach, the students are taught the most commonly used lexical
chunks of words and structures. The idea is that common phrases are taught
Eclectic Approach ✔✔all of the above teaching methods and bits from the Communicative
Approach below and uses styles which suit learners at different levels.
Communicative Approach ✔✔Drilling is a form of repetition, getting students to repeat after
you. Drilling comes from the behaviourist theorists of the 1950's who concluded that habit
forming was a good way to learn a new language
