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LEARNING PROCESS
TECHNIQUES OF GTM
GTM? - TEACHER’S GOALS

What is GTM ?
- Foreign language teaching method.
- Originated in the late 19th and early 20th century.
- Old name: Classical Method .
- This is usually taught in the classical or dead

language
Ex: Latin and Greek.
Purposes of GTM
- Enrich their literature and language reading
proficiency as well. (Main purpose).
- Study grammar of the target language.
- Better understanding grammar of the native

language through familiarity.
- Speak and write their native language better.
- Intellectual growth through grammar exercises.

Teacher’s goals
1. Help students develop ability to read foreign language
literature.
2.Teach students how to learn grammar rules.
3. Make students can gain foreign language vocabularies.
4. Studying foreign language is good for student mental

exercise.
ROLE OF TEACHERS/STUDENTS
-
TEACHER RESPONSE ERRORS
The roles of teachers: The role of students:
- Authoritative. - Passive learners.
- Provider of knowledge. - Students do as the teachers say.
=> Very traditional. =>Become such as group

participant, reader, writer, rote
learner and translator.
Teachers’s response to student

errors:
Having the students get the correct answer is
considered very important.
- Correction is appricated.
- Sign of failure.
- Accuracy to be attained.
- Teacher know the RIGHT answers.

=> supply the correct answers.
Language focus
Teaching-learning process
Language focus:
Vocabulary
Climate (n): khí hậu
-> Much vocabulary is taught Temperature (n): nhiệt độ
in the form of lists of isolated Tornado (n): lốc xoáy
words. Storm (n): bão

Thunderstorm (n): bão có sấm sét

Language focus:
Grammar
Grammar is taught deductively.
Long, elaborate explanations of

the intricacies of grammar are
given.
The major language skills focus Little or no attention is paid to

speaking and listening.
Reading Writing
Classes are taught in the mother
tongue.
Teaching-learning process
1. Reading texts
2. Vocabulary learning
3. Grammar rules
4. Translation
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TECHNIQUES OF GTM
1.What is a technique?
- What is being taught.
- How it is taught.
- What activities used.
- What exercises done.

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2.Techniques of GTM:
Translation of literary passage:
Students translate a reading passage from the target language into their
native language.
- The reading passage: picked from the target language literature or
written by the teacher to include grammar rules and vocabulary.
- Translation: spoken or written (or both).
- Don’t: translate idioms and phrasal verbs literally
- Do: translate idioms and phrasal verbs in a way that shows
understandings about their meaning.
Ex: The old man down the street has kicked the bucket.
He has died.
Reading comprehension questions:

Students answer questions in the target language based on
their understanding of the reading passage.
- First type of question: information questions from the text.
Ex: When did Mark Twain live?
- Second type of question: inference questions based on
understanding of the passage.
Ex: Do you think the boy was ambitious? Why or not?
- Third type of question: Related the passage to the personal
experience.
Ex: Have you ever thought of running away from home?
Antonyms/Synonyms:
Students maybe asked to:
- Find antonyms/synonyms for a given set of

words in the reading passage.
- Define difficult words from the text.
- Do other vocabulary exercises.

Cognates:
Students are taught to recognize the spellings
or sound patterns which are similar in foreign
language and mother tongue.
Ex: English word ‘possibility’ (-ty)
Spanish word ‘Possibilidad’ (-dad)
- Deductive application of rules: Applying grammar rules to given

examples.
- Fill-in-the-blanks exercise: Filling in the blanks of the given sentences
using new vocabulary items or items of a particular grammar type (ex:
prepositions, verbs).
- Memorization: Memorizing vocabulary lists, grammatical rules and
grammar paradigms (ex: conjugations…).
- Use words in sentences: Creating sentences using new vocabulary.
- Composition: Writing a short paragraph in the target language about a
topic relating to the reading passage of the lesson or preparing a précis of
the reading passage.
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GTM? - TEACHER’S GOALS

LANGUAGE FOCUS - TEACHING -

GTM? - TEACHER’S GOALS

- Originated in the late 19th and early 20th century.

- Old name: Classical Method .

- This is usually taught in the classical or dead

- Study grammar of the target language.

- Better understanding grammar of the native

- Speak and write their native language better.

- Intellectual growth through grammar exercises.

2.Teach students how to learn grammar rules.

3. Make students can gain foreign language vocabularies.

4. Studying foreign language is good for student mental

The roles of teachers: The role of students:

- Authoritative. - Passive learners.

- Provider of knowledge. - Students do as the teachers say.

=> Very traditional. =>Become such as group

Teachers’s response to student

- Teacher know the RIGHT answers.

words. Storm (n): bão

Long, elaborate explanations of

The major language skills focus Little or no attention is paid to

- What activities used.

- What exercises done.

Reading comprehension questions:

- Find antonyms/synonyms for a given set of

- Define difficult words from the text.

- Do other vocabulary exercises.

- Deductive application of rules: Applying grammar rules to given

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