Which of the following methods/approaches doesn’t allow learners to use their native language in a language class?

• Grammar Translation

• Direct Method

• Natural Approach

Which method/approach allows learners to acquire a language as babies do, beginning with silent listening?

• Direct Method

• Natural Approach

• Grammar Translation

In the ____________ the students learn patterns of language by repeating model sentences that the teacher provides. They memorize set phrases and receive positive reinforcement from their teacher when they perform drills correctly.

First, students learn how to say words properly. Next, they learn to read and write. They use colour charts and rods to help with the pronunciation of sounds. Teacher talking time is minimal.

• Community Language Learning

• the Silent Way

• TPR (Total Physical Response)

The teacher says commands and acts them out. The students try to perform the actions. The teacher repeats by saying the command without acting it out. The students respond. The roles are then reversed.

• Community Language Learning

• (De)Suggestopedia

• TPR

Charles Berlitz popularized it.

Stephen Krashen acquisition theory : the need for comprehensible input

Examples of Silent Way applications

• mixture of silence and gestures

• background music

• sound-color chart

• physical movement

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

• Method

• Technique

• Approach

Students are not organisms. This approach sees them as a whole person.