Divergent Evaluation in ELT Methods and Approaches

by:
Julieth Paola Paniza Acosta

Didactica de la lengua inglesa

Corporación universitaria del Caribe - cecar

Facultad de humanidades y educación
Licenciatura en ingles
Corozal – sucre
2023
 Divergent Evaluation in ELT Methods and Approaches

English is currently considered the most relevant language, the main element among
very diverse cultures that share few or no traits in common. Learning the english
language has approaches and methods, which have many advantages when put into
practice. The advantages of each of them are set out below:

1. Suggestopedia: the objective of this method is to accelerate the learning

process subliminally through the use of positive suggestion, the teaher makes
use of relaxing music to create an environment in orden to facilitate student
learning.
This method is very positive for students since the teacher is in charge of helping
their students to relax having a positive mind and thinking that learning will be an
easy and fun process where they will acquire knowledge.
Another advantage of this method is to promote the acquisition of an advanced
conversational domain quickly and to be able to understand the foreign language
through the gestures and intonation of the teacher.

2. The Natural Approach: the acquisition of a second language should be a natural

process like the learning of the mother tongue, this method refers to an
unconscious process to learn a foreign language through the use of language for
meaningful communication. In natural focus, the teacher speaks only in the target
language (the foreign language being).

3. The Silent Way: focuses on student autonomy and is based on the assumption
that teachers should not speak, but rather encourage students to produce
language. In this method, pronunciation is important from the beginning and it
increases lesson by lesson, learning vocabulary and selecting new words to use
in class. In promotes cooperative learning among students, in some cases it is
difficult to understand it because each student must be autonomous in what she
has to do to acquire knowledge through the use of this method. In Silent Way,
here in this method the teacher is only a neutral observer, while the students are
responsible for their own learning process through self-correction and cooperative
work.
4. The Direct Method: it is a methodology for teaching languages the at consists of
establishing a visual and immediate association between the experience and
expression, between words, phrases, idioms and their physical or corporal
expression, without relying on the students’ mother tongue. Here the teacher
answers a Word pointing to the object it denotes and does it as many time as
necessary for the student to reproduce. In this method, translation is eliminated
 as a teaching procedure, it stimulates the inductive teaching of grammar and the
use of visual aids, oral and written exercises. The advantages of this method is
that the target language is taught without translation using demonstration and
action. Reading skills, students learn new vocabulary as this is essential for
mastery of Reading.Through the analysis and classification of grammatical
structures in sentence simples that help students learn sentences rules and
structures, students adquire grammatical control, as this is another relevant
element of this approach.

5. Grammar Translation Method: consists of memorizing grammar rules of the

second language by translating sentences, where the degree of difficulty in
translating sentences increases at the same time as vocabulary increases.
Although it is a very old method, it is still used today despite how inefficient it is

The advantages of this method consist of:

Students are not stressed, because the instructions are given in their mother
tongue and they do not have any contact wich native speakers.

Students learn grammar rules that are introduced through examples. Then they
are asked to apply these grammar rules by forming sentences.

Students answer questions by reading a text or based on someone else’s

understanding.

Fill in the blanks is the most useful technique in this method. Students must
complete sentences with the most appropriate vocabulary or grammatical
structure.

6. The Audiolingual Method: has similarity to the direct method because the target
language is used to give instructions, it emphasizes the teaching of listening and
speaking first, and then reading and writing.

The main objective of the audio lingual method is to train people in listening
comprehension and the ability speak by acquiring an accurate pronunciation in
order to master the target language by managing the four language skills.

It has advantages such as the use of large groups of students, the development
of oral communication with an emphasis on the production of sentences and the
development of the separation of the four language skills.
7. The Natural Approach: the acquisition of a second language should be a natural
process like the learning of the mother tongue, this method refers to an
unconscious process to learn a foreign language through the use of language for
meaningful communication. In natural focus, the teacher speaks only in the target
language (the foreign language being).