Summary and comparison of some teaching methods English Language Teaching Methods 602 ENG .
Grammar Translation Direct Method Audio-Lingual Method
Standard ⇩ | Method ⇨ Method
the ability to read
literature written in the
targeted language
1 Goal
The student is taught to
translate from one
language to another, the
student studies grammar
deductively, they also learn
grammatical models such
as verb conjugations, they
areas and skills of memorize the mother
2 emphasis, tongue equations for the
characteristics target language vocabulary
words.
The roles are very
traditional: the teacher
is the authority in the
class. Students do what
roles of both
the teacher says so they
teachers and can tell what they know
3 students
Most interaction in the
classroom is from
teacher to student.
Student initiative is little
4 students-teacher
interaction
student-student
interaction is also little
5
student-student
interaction
It is very important for
the student to get the
correct answer. If the
student makes mistakes
or does not know the
6 response to answer, the teacher
student’s errors provides them with the
correct answer
Culture is viewed as
consisting of literature
and the fine arts.
views of culture
7 using
8 views of language ……………..
learning
The Silent Way
The student learns It is safe for students to Develop students'
how to communicate use the language independence from the
in the target communicatively teacher through self-
reliance, as the teacher
language
gives them what they
need only when absolutely
.necessary
Teachers believe New vocabulary and Students begin their study
that the student structural patterns are of the language through
needs to make a introduced through the basic building blocks,
dialogues. Dialogues are presented through a
direct connection
learned through imitation language-specific color
between the and repetition. As well as scheme and sound.
meaning and the enhancing responses Depending on the sounds
target language positively and developing that
without speaking the rules from the examples The student already
mother tongue or provided, as well as knows them and then
using translation. putting cultural information associates the sounds of
in context in the dialogues the target language with
.certain colors.
Although the role of The teacher is like the The teacher assumes the
the teacher directs conductor of the role of engineer and
the activities of the orchestra, he presents technician, teaching
himself as a good students based on what
classroom, the
example for his students they already know, while
teacher and to imitate, the students respecting their
students are imitate the teacher and independence and their
partners in the follow his directions attempts to learn and
teaching and .interact with them
learning process
Interaction goes Most interaction between In this method the teacher
both ways: from teacher and students, The is less interactive and
teacher to students interaction is initiated by must remain silent, but at
the teacher the same time active and
and from students to
interested and works
teacher, (usually silently with them using
teacher directed to gestures without
students) .speaking
students can also There is interaction The interaction of students
interact with each between the student and with each other is good
other. the student in the and useful, especially the
dialogues and exercises, verbal interaction, where
this interaction is directed students can learn from
by the teacher each other, and when the
teacher is silent, he
encourages them to
,interact with each other
The teacher hones Students' mistakes should Student mistakes as a
his potential to urge be avoided as much as natural and inevitable part.
the student to self- possible, The teacher The teacher makes
knows in advance where mistakes
correct mistakes
students will encounter The student as a basis for
whenever possible difficulty, and plans to learning. With the
avoid error students to correct their
mistakes themselves, and
only to provide assistance
.if necessary
Teachers believe The auditory method was Each language has its
that the student influenced by descriptive own unique reality and
needs to link directly linguists. Divide it into spirit because it is an
several different levels: expression of the culture
between the
phonetic, morphological, of a particular group of
meaning and the and grammatical. people, and their culture is
target language Beginner students are .linked to their language
taught using simple and
representation, fact uncomplicated patterns
and images without .and techniques
speaking in the
mother tongue or
using translation.
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