SLS303 Second Language Teaching Review

Students work independently, reading and translating an L2 short story into their L1. Before starting this activity, the teacher goes over new vocabulary and grammatical structures that will appear in the text.

• The Direct Method

• The Silent Way

• Task-Based Language Learning

• Grammar Translation Method

The students are taking a biology class that is entirely taught in English. The teacher goes over key vocabulary and language structures before moving on to a hands on experiment with the students.

• Cooperative Learning

• Content-Based Language Teaching

• Strategies -Based Instruction

• Corpus-Based Teaching

Students form small groups and play a game of charades. Each student takes turns acting out a verb.

• Total Physical Response

• Suggestopedia

• Audiolingual Method

• The Silent Way

Students are currently learning language forms that will help them express their opinions. Later, they will write a review of a movie they recently watched, and will then upload it to Rotten Tomatoes.

• Task-Based Language Teaching

• Corpus-Based Teaching

• Cooperative Learning

• Language for Specific Purposes

The students in this classroom are working hard to enter into various university courses in the upcoming months. They are focusing on skills such as essay writing and note-taking, and are learning strategies such as skimming to process long reading passages.

• Vocational English as a Second Language

• English for Academic Purposes

• Grammar Translation Method

• Content-Based Language Teaching

There are only eight students in this class. From day one the teacher has been only teaching in the L2. The goal of this class is to learn the L2 the same way one learns their L1.

• Community Language Learning

• The Silent Way

• The Direct Method

• The Audiolingual Method

The over-learning of patterns through choral repetition and drilling is the key to learning a target language.

• Grammar-Translation

• Direct Method (Berlitz)

• Audiolingual Method

Learners are directed toward unrehearsed language performance in the target language. Authentic materials and real-life situations are included.

• Direct Method (Berlitz)

• Audiolingual Method

• Communicative Language Teaching

Any of a wide variety of exercises, activities, or devices used in the language classroom for realizing lesson objectives.

• Method

• Technique

• Syllabus

• Approach

Theoretical positions and beliefs about the nature of language, the nature of language learning, and the applicability of both to pedagogical settings.

• Syllabus

• Approach

• Technique