Topic 1. Didactic evolution of languages...

According to our current legislation based on LOMLOE from 2020, the teaching of a foreign language must be based on the communicative approach and communication must be the essential part of a language learning process, in this way the methodology used for the teaching of a foreign language must be based on this communicative approach to make our students not only knowing about language but knowing how to use it. 

• True

• False

Name and explain four examples from the ancient times with the necessity to speak a foreign language:

There are three different ways of organisation:

- Approach is a particular theory of language learning.

- Method is a way of presenting that theory into practice.

- Methodology is the classroom evaluation.

• True

• False

The Method that dominated the European and FL teaching from the 1840s to 1940s was...

• The Cognitive thinking

• Grammar Translation Method

• The Reform movement

• Direct method

The Pre-reform movement...

• Happened in England, France and other parts of Europe

• Approaches developed by individual language teaching specialist

• Did't have wide diffusion

• All are correct

The reform movement...

• Study of phonetics gave new insights into speech processes

• Written word is the primary form of language

• Did not assume the status of methods

In the direct method...

• We need to translate

• Grammar is taught inductively

• Main skill developed is writing

• Put attention to pronunciation

Berlitz school...

• Promoted the use of oral interaction in the target language

• Students learnt to speak after a month of intensive oral work

• Avoid the use of mother tongue

• It was taught in private language schools

Explain with your own words what is the structural view.

The functional view...

• language is more than a set of structures

• emphasize the academic communicative dimension

• is based on meaning and functions

• all are correct