Unit 15 Aproaches to Language Teaching

 

 Unit 15 
Approaches to Language Teaching
It is important for learners to find an Approach that will suit them to learn in a better and faster way since there are many ways and many Communicative Approaches  for example we have the Structural Approach which see language as a system of structures uses functions vocabulary structure and discourse, but is not for every learner, since there is a control practice, we also have the PPP which is very used by the teachers in adjunct to other methods since they put into practice what they had learn and use it, as grammatical structures and functions are used here to, the Lexical Approach in which vocabulary is important also chunks are learned with collocations and idioms, we also have the Functional Approach in which functions are the most important aspects of the language using with that the PPP, the functions are grated, the Communicative Approach here the most important aspect is the meaning grammar vocabulary and discourse it uses interaction, and authentic material. We also have the Grammar Translation Method in which they use a lot of translation and rules and to memorized, the students are seen as passive and not active, then the TPR students are exposed to comprehension and there is a silent period for the input, also the Guided Discovery the teacher gives students examples with the target language and many patterns to follow, and finally the Content-based Learning it works with grammatical lexis and functions students learn through acquisition, and Content and Language Integrated Learning here we see language to help to communicate meaning also through acquisition, as we could see many of the Approaches it is essential to find the best to teach and to learn the language since each person is different and have different intelligence.

  Google Books,. (2014). Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Retrieved 6 December 2014,