Methods summarised

Method Main Principles behind the method

Technique?
Grammar- Detailed analysis of grammar rules followed by the translation of texts in the target
Translation language.
No use of the target language for speaking interactions

Students’ / Teachers’ roles?

Teacher’s role: to ask and give instructions; facilitator; initiator

Student’s role: Group participant; translator

Technique?
question and answer exchanges; use of prompts and realia; use of target language
Direct Method
Students’ / Teachers’ roles?
Teacher’s role: to direct the class activities; to encourage students to participate in
class by asking them questions constantly; to correct their mistakes immediately.

Student’s role: Active; to orally interact with classmates and teacher

Technique?
Drilling; memorization
Audio-Lingual
Method
Students’ / Teachers’ roles?
Teacher’s role: Active; to direct the learning; to monitor and correct performance

Student’s role: Passive; to imitate the teacher’s model

Technique?
Coordination of speech with physical activity
TPR

Students’ / Teachers’ roles?

Teacher’s role: Active; to decide what to teach; to model; to present new material; to
speak and to give instructions

Student’s role: to listen and to perform

Technique?
To listen to music while students sit or lie comfortably and the teacher reads the
Suggestopedia target language

Students’ / Teachers’ roles?

Teacher’s role: to create a comfortable environment

Student’s role: Passive; to participate in the activities

Technique?
to solve a task that involves an authentic use of language

Alastair Grant – Delta 1

 TBL Students’ / Teachers’ roles?

Teacher’s role: to select and sequence tasks

Student’s role: group participant; monitor; risk-taker and innovator

Technique?
To study a subject through content
CBL / CLIL
Students’ / Teachers’ roles?

Teacher’s role: to know the subject; to draw the specific content from learners

Student’s role: to interpret input; to tolerate uncertainty

Technique?
The Silent Way the use of silence and gestures

Students’ / Teachers’ roles?

Teacher’s role: to create an environment for students to interact

Student’s role: Active; to be autonomous, independent and responsible; to interact

with the other students
Technique?
Dogme to do what they students agree to work on

Students’ / Teachers’ roles?

Teacher’s role: facilitator

Student’s role: active; to decide what to study; to interact with classmates

Alastair Grant – Delta 1