20th CENTURY “APPROACHES”

TO LANGUAGE TEACHING
 MAIN APPROACHES BY
INFLUENCE
• Language is rule- governed.
COGNITIVE • The emphasis is on
cognitive behavior (not habit
APPROACH formation; Skinner s
cognitive conditioning)

• Learning a foreign language

AFFECTIVE – is a process of self
HUMANISTIC realization and of relating to
other people
APPROACH
 MAIN APPROACHES BY
INFLUENCE
• Language acquisition
COMPREHENSION occurs if only the goal of
APPROACH the language teaching is
communication.

• The purpose of
COMMUNICATIVE language (the goal of
APPROACH teaching) is
communication.
 Syllabus Design
• Syllabus is THE DESCRIPTION OF PLANNING AND
FRAMEWORK FOR A COURSE OF STUDY, consist of the
learning goals, objectives, contents, processes,
resources and means of evaluation planned for students.

• In brief , a syllabus can be described as a statement of what

is to be learnt. It reflects language and linguistic performance.
(Hutchinson and Waters, 1987)