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    Methods of language teaching have evolved over centuries, from the inductive approach used by Comenius in the 17th century to modern approaches. Early 20th century methods included grammar translation, direct methods focusing on speaking, and audiolingualism based on behaviorism. Later approaches emphasized communication, like communicative language teaching, and involving the whole person, like total physical response and humanistic methods. Key humanistic methods between the 1970s-80s focused on minimal teacher input, relaxed learning, and a supportive environment.

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    Methods of language teaching have evolved over centuries, from the inductive approach used by Comenius in the 17th century to modern approaches. Early 20th century methods included grammar translation, direct methods focusing on speaking, and audiolingualism based on behaviorism. Later approaches emphasized communication, like communicative language teaching, and involving the whole person, like total physical response and humanistic methods. Key humanistic methods between the 1970s-80s focused on minimal teacher input, relaxed learning, and a supportive environment.

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    METHODS OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

    METHODOLOGY
    • Is a system of practices and procedures that a teachers uses to teach
    • It is based on beliefs about the nature of language, how it is learnt (known as an Approach)
    In the Classroom
    • Many teachers base their lessons on a mixture of methods and approaches to meet the
    different needs of learners and the different aims of lessons or courses.
    • Factors in deciding how to teach include the age and experience of learners, lessons and
    course objectives, expectations and resources.

    Language teaching became established as a profession in the 20 th century ever since several
    methods has been proposed and each one tried to be more effective and theoretically sound.

    JOHANN COMENIUS
    a Czech scholar and teacher who published books on teaching in the 17 th century.

    INDUCTIVE APPROACH
     Use the language  Analysis of language
     Imitation  Rules
     Repeat after the teacher

    GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION APPROACH
    -explicitly focused on studying grammar and translating texts to learn to read literature

    DIRECT METHODS
    -was introduced in the late 19th century, teaching exclusively in the foreign language and
    focusing on speaking and listening in an attempt to give a more scientific foundation of language
    teaching

    AUDIOLINGUAL METHODS or AUDIOLINGUALISM


    -was based on psychological theories of behaviourism, according to behaviourism people’s
    behaviour depended on a pattern of stimulus response and feedback and learning a language meant
    using the language communicatively to form new habits and get rid of old habits from the first
    language

    Communicative language teaching


    -is an influential teaching method to this day it started as a reaction to grammar-oriented
    approaches focusing on accuracy and it argued that the goal of language teaching is communication
    which is achieved by actually communicating in the target language in class.

    TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE (TPR)


    -In TPR the teacher gives commands to the students with body movements and the students
    respond by imitating these movements
    HUMANISTIC LANGUAGE TEACHING
    - is based on the idea that the whole social and emotional human being and not just the mind
    should be involved in learning a language

    Three key methods between the 1970s and 80s were associated with humanism
    1. The Silent Way
    2. Suggestopaedia
    3. Community Language Learning
    The SILENT WAY
    -as the name suggest is a method based on the idea that the teacher should be silent as much
    as possible and the learners should be encouraged to speak
    SUGGESTOPAEDIA
    -is based on the idea that learning is fostered by reaching an optimal state of alert relaxation in
    this state of relaxation learning is meant to happen accidentally and naturally
    CLL
    -assumes that students are people with feelings and that learning happens when they don’t
    feel threatened the teacher takes on a role similar to a counsellor

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