Language Teaching Approaches

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Summary of Teaching Methodology And the Nine Twentieth-Century Approaches to Language Learning Reported by: Jennifer Dumogho BSED-3 English 19 Submitted to: Mrs. Yuvenia Pino Instructor Language Teaching Approaches: An Overview In Language Teaching Approaches: An Overview, Celce-Murcia gives some historical background, then outlines the principal approaches to second and foreign language teaching that were used during the twentieth century. Prior to twentieth century, language teaching methodology vacillated between two types of approaches: * Getting learners to use a language * Getting learners to analyze a language The teachers used informal and more or less direct approaches to convey the form and meaning of the language they were teaching and that they used aural-oral techniques with no language textbooks per se, but rather a small stock of hand-copied written manuscripts of some sort, perhaps a few texts in the target language, or crude dictionaries that listed equivalent words in two or more languages side by side. Some of the techniques that Comenius used and expoused between 1631 and 1658 were the following: * Use imitation instead of rules to teach a language. * Have your students repeat after you. * Use a limited vocabulary initially. * Help your students to practice reading and speaking. * Teach language through pictures to make it meaningful. By the end of the nineteenth century, the Direct Method, which once more stressed the ability to use rather than to analyze a language as the goal of language instructions had begun to function as a variable alternative to Grammar-Translation Francois Gouin, began to publish in 1880 concerning his work with the Direct Method. Furthermore, the Direct Method became very popular in France and Germany. Later, the Modern Language Association of America endorsed the

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