Sunday, 7 August 2011

The Methods

Grammar Translation Method 
The main idea of the grammar translation method is based on learning grammatical rules, memorize new vocabulary, conjugate verbs tenses, the translation of different texts and give priority to the writen and reading abilities.  The teacher is the authority inside the classroom.

The  Direct Method
The intention of this method implies to learn the new language as the person acquired the first language, in an spontaneous way, without explanations of the grammatical rules.  The main idea is to avoid the first language, giving emphasis to the oral production, acquiring the new vocabulary in a gradual way, through pictures and images, and on the other hand through questions and answers, modeling phrases, giving practice to the new language.


The Audiolingual Method 
It is based on the repetitions to acquire a second language, putting on practice the oral communication through repetitions of different dialogues, situations, where the pupil has to memorize phrases which has a certain purpose; the vocabulary words are very restrictive, and the context is artificial.



The Silent Way

The main actor of this method is the pupil, meanwhile the teacher has to act with a minimum of intervention.   The pupil to learn avoiding the first language to communicate his/her ideas, he/she has to learn through discovery and necessity with the purpose giving solutions to the problems.  Finally the pupil develops autonomy and responsibility in getting progress.


The Dessugestopedia
The principal idea of this method is based on the brain which they think that it has a great capacity to produce information and process it in good conditions, in a bright and cheerful environment.  So, the teacher creates and organizes his/her classroom to motivate and relax the pupils in order to avoid negative feeling of emotions and they can acquire a second language in a good way.


Total Physical Response

The interesting thing in this method is that it emphasizes the understanding of the situation instead of the production of it, speaking will appear spontaneously.  As well as a child acquired its first language, the idea of this method is to acquire a second one, where first the baby understood the message and then it produces the correct words to ask for something in the same way, knowing perfectly what is it doing?  


Community Language Learning
This method is based on the group working, where the performance of the social interaction has a fundamental role.  After that, the students are considered like a whole person, as a human being with feeling, emotions, fear, etc.  and in this situation teachers can support them to get their goals, giving them opportunity to feel comfortable on the environment they belong to and continuing their work as well as possible.


Task Based
This method is oriented on a subject matter, the idea is having a specific purpose to acquire the target language.  Where the use of material is authentic and the teachers give the students tools to cover their necessities, considering their interest and their reality.  This method is applied in different stages, every step is important to get the final goal and teachers can make adjustments if it is necessary.  Finally, the idea of education has a better motivation when students can build their own learning process, acting, doing things having the teacher as a mediator.  They can develop their abilities, considering the other students as part of a group too.


Learning Strategy Training and Multiple Intelligences
The idea of this method is focus its attention on the student, how he/she can learn different subjects, giving them different tools to acquire the target language, they should be aware of their advantages and disadvantages to learn some topic.  Also it's important they consider the prior knowledge to give the new one a foundation, the things are better understanding when people makes connections on their minds, to give them meaning.

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