Audio-lingual method: It is really interesting that students learn grammar rules when they are listening different conversations. I think this approach is really important because students have o repeat what they listen. In that way, students learn pronunciation, new vocabulary and they learn to develop their speaking ad listening skills. For some students, it will be boring to repeat and repeat what the teacher says, but it is the teacher’s job to engage them in those activities.
Whole Method: I think every body has noticed that there are some similarities in some methods and all methods have some advantages and some disadvantages. I think this method is very useful in order to help students to develop different skills such as comprehension, understanding new words through context, analysis, pronunciation, etc, but also students learn about general topic at the same time they are learning English. I really think it helps to develop writing and reading skills but it is important to include some listening and speaking activities in order to help them to be more integral in their learning.
TPR: I think this method is better for kids because they seem really interested when the teacher is dynamic. They enjoy making gestures and they understand body language. As a disadvantage of this approach, I can say that some students are not good at understanding body language and It will be really boring for them these kind of lasses. They could thing that it is really boring to learn a new language and they as young people will think that they are not able to learn it.
domingo, 15 de agosto de 2010
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I am going to talk about content based instruction, and I think it is really important to know that students need to be interested in what they are going to do or what they are going to read. In this way, it will be easier for them to learn a new language. There are lots of activities we can work with students in this approach. We can find reading, listening, writing and speaking activities that can help us to develop a class, but we have to take into account that the first purpose of this approach is to teach students about a specific content, and the second purpose is to teach them the new language. Students need to be engaged in all the activities because they are who want and need to learn.
Teacher’s roll is really hard because they have to provide all the material to students, and he also has to be the one who knows about the topic and the target language. Let´s imagine that students are interested in science fiction; we have to investigate about this topic even if we really hate it, and give students all the material needed.
The task-based instruction is really interesting because we have to look for different activities that can be assigned, and students have to be very active in the class. There are some students who don’t like to be doing the same activities in all the classes, so we have to change from activity to activity and make them to participate. There are also some students who don’t like to do activities maybe because they are shy. In this case, teachers have a hard job, because they have to help those kinds of students in order to engage them in all the activities.
Then we have the approach in which student’s voice is record and I think it is really useful, because students are correcting their mistakes themselves when they listen their voice through a record. I think that students can improve their language when they have the idea that they are being recorded. They try to pronounce in the correct way. Some other students can get nervous and it will be very difficult for them to do their best in their class or any other presentation.
Teacher’s roll is really hard because they have to provide all the material to students, and he also has to be the one who knows about the topic and the target language. Let´s imagine that students are interested in science fiction; we have to investigate about this topic even if we really hate it, and give students all the material needed.
The task-based instruction is really interesting because we have to look for different activities that can be assigned, and students have to be very active in the class. There are some students who don’t like to be doing the same activities in all the classes, so we have to change from activity to activity and make them to participate. There are also some students who don’t like to do activities maybe because they are shy. In this case, teachers have a hard job, because they have to help those kinds of students in order to engage them in all the activities.
Then we have the approach in which student’s voice is record and I think it is really useful, because students are correcting their mistakes themselves when they listen their voice through a record. I think that students can improve their language when they have the idea that they are being recorded. They try to pronounce in the correct way. Some other students can get nervous and it will be very difficult for them to do their best in their class or any other presentation.
viernes, 6 de agosto de 2010
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Hello everyone!
This time, I am going to talk about the two approaches our classmates explained last Wednesday.
I think that the situational language teaching is very essential when we want to learn just to speak a language because as Enrique said, this approach emphasizes in speaking skill and grammar structures is like the second purpose.
I really like this approach, because the material is first taught orally and finally it is presented in a written way. It helps students to improve their listening skill, and they are getting accustomed to listening what the teacher presents, and they have the opportunity to correct their mistakes when the teacher presents them the material in a written way.
I agree when it says that learning a new language is a habit formation. It is a fact that we are going to learn a new language only if we practice it day by day. In this approach, students have to apply the target language in every situation of their lives, and it is something that really helps, because they are practicing and practicing. It is the way they are going to learn the new language, and we as English learners can do it too.
The natural approach is kind of similar with the situational language teaching, because it focuses more on communicative skills. I think that it is really important to learn grammar structures and any other area included in language learning. It is important to have a balance in listening, writing and speaking because it happen with people who learn English in the United States that they can speak the language, but they are really bad in grammar structures.
Another important thing in this approach is that classes are begun with listening activities. I remember when I started learning English; the teacher never presented listening activities for us to start getting accustomed to listening native English speakers.
It is important to mention that students are not forced to speak at the very beginning of the course. It is better when they discover that it is important to speak the target language or the teacher looks for the moment to make them speak.
We have to take into account that students need to be interested in learning a new language in order to help them to practice it. It is very difficult to help somebody to practice the language when he is not interested in learning it.
This time, I am going to talk about the two approaches our classmates explained last Wednesday.
I think that the situational language teaching is very essential when we want to learn just to speak a language because as Enrique said, this approach emphasizes in speaking skill and grammar structures is like the second purpose.
I really like this approach, because the material is first taught orally and finally it is presented in a written way. It helps students to improve their listening skill, and they are getting accustomed to listening what the teacher presents, and they have the opportunity to correct their mistakes when the teacher presents them the material in a written way.
I agree when it says that learning a new language is a habit formation. It is a fact that we are going to learn a new language only if we practice it day by day. In this approach, students have to apply the target language in every situation of their lives, and it is something that really helps, because they are practicing and practicing. It is the way they are going to learn the new language, and we as English learners can do it too.
The natural approach is kind of similar with the situational language teaching, because it focuses more on communicative skills. I think that it is really important to learn grammar structures and any other area included in language learning. It is important to have a balance in listening, writing and speaking because it happen with people who learn English in the United States that they can speak the language, but they are really bad in grammar structures.
Another important thing in this approach is that classes are begun with listening activities. I remember when I started learning English; the teacher never presented listening activities for us to start getting accustomed to listening native English speakers.
It is important to mention that students are not forced to speak at the very beginning of the course. It is better when they discover that it is important to speak the target language or the teacher looks for the moment to make them speak.
We have to take into account that students need to be interested in learning a new language in order to help them to practice it. It is very difficult to help somebody to practice the language when he is not interested in learning it.
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