Key Concepts Topic 1. Approaches and Methods in English Teaching

What is curriculum design?

What is an approach?

• It is a set of correlative assumptions dealing with the nature of language teaching and learning.

• It is an overall plan for the orderly presentation of language material, no part of which contradicts, and all of which is based upon, the selected approach.

• It is implementational that which actually takes place in a classroom. Techniques must be consistent with a method, and therefore in harmony with an approach as well.

What is a method ?

• It is a set of correlative assumptions dealing with the nature of language teaching and learning.

• It is an overall plan for the orderly presentation of language material, no part of which contradicts, and all of which is based upon, the selected approach.

• It is implementational that which actually takes place in a classroom. Techniques must be consistent with a method, and therefore in harmony with an approach as well.

What is a technique ?

• It is a set of correlative assumptions dealing with the nature of language teaching and learning.

• It is an overall plan for the orderly presentation of language material, no part of which contradicts, and all of which is based upon, the selected approach.

• It is implementational that which actually takes place in a classroom. Techniques must be consistent with a method, and therefore in harmony with an approach as well.

The Language Theory is based on...

• Language learning

  psycholinguistic process

• Structural, Functional, Interactional View

• Method analysis

What is a design?

• It is the level of method analysis in which we consider what objectives of a method are and how language content is selected and organized within the method.

• It is the specific analysis in which we consider what objectives of a method are and how language content is selected and organized within the method.

What is a procedure?

• It is a element and criteria observed when the method is integrated.

• It is a classroom related technique, practice, and behavior observed when the method is used.

What type of approach and method do you know?

• Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching

• Community Language

• Neuroprograming Linguistic

• Total Physical Response

Which other approaches and methods have you used in your classrooms?

Tags

methods, language, approaches

A syllabus model refers to...

• skills and tasks

• organization and selection of criteria

• linguistic matter of content

• Subject matter content