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.
Xavier, how would you use the whole language in class?
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I agree with you in some things you mentioned but in other ones I do not. and it is becuase as teacher you have to be creative in order to envolve every student in the activities you have planned; it can be difficult but believe me when you got it, it is really nice. I think that Total Physical response in not just for children as you said becuase if you want your students to feel comfortable in the classroom, you have to be very enthusiatic and show them that you are nice even though you may be facing any situation, but in the classroom the environment around the students has to be nice, including the teacher.
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