UNIT 15 APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TEACHING

UNIT 15 APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TEACHING

An approach to language teaching may refer to our view of how language learning takes place in other words, the ways of how we teach language it may be that language is a set of grammar rules, and there are many other ways in which teaching can take place and there are other supporters of communicative approaches like seeing language as a tool to communicate meaning, and that we learn language by using it in communicative activities. There are two typical approaches the structural approach that sees language as a system of structures and says that language is learnt by controlled practice. In this approach oral skills are learnt before the written skills. Then we have the Task-based learning, this approach sees language as a tool to communicate by using functions vocabulary, structures and discourse, so language is learnt by using it and classroom activities are based on problem-solving tasks.

It is difficult to say if an approach is better than other, but teachers can use any of them depending on the group of students that he or she is working with.

http://moramodules.com/ALMMethods.htm (Kerper, 2014)

http://www.onestopenglish.com/support/methodology/teaching-approaches/teaching-approaches-what-is-audiolingualism/146488.article (Bowen, 2014)

http://www.onestopenglish.com/support/methodology/teaching-approaches/teaching-approaches-the-communicative-classroom/146489.article (Bowen, 2014)