ELT 1 LESSONS 35-36

I’ll never forget all the lists of characters! They gave us a test every Friday. But even though I am not Chinese I can write pretty well, thanks to that.’ ​

• acquisition

• learning

• noticing

‘I was born in Japan – my parents are Japanese – but I went to the USA when I was about four because my father got a job there. I did all my primary education there. Some people think I sound like an American!’ ​

• acquisition

• learning

• noticing

‘In my school in Turkey the teacher used to stand at the front of the class and explain grammar rules and we wrote down what he said in our notebooks. My English grammar is good thanks to him! At least I think it was thanks to him.’ ​

• acquisition

• learning

• noticing

‘It was only after the first two lessons that I managed to hear what the teacher was saying – hear the different sounds and words. That’s when I started to learn!’ ​

• acquisition

• learning

• noticing

‘Yeah, well after I left university in the UK I worked on a farm in Cuba for ten months and I kind of picked up quite a lot of Spanish. Not many of the people there spoke any English.’ ​

• acqusition

• learning

• noticing

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‘At first when I listened to the radio, it just sounded like noise. But gradually I started being able to tell different sounds and combinations of sounds – and that’s when I started getting the language, I think.’ ​

• acquisition

• learning

• noticing

‘I fell in love with a really great Polish guy. We’re married now. Yes, my Polish is pretty good! I just kind of picked it up.’ ​

• acquisition

• learning

• noticing

A method which is sentence-based and where students compare two languages.​

• Grammar translation​

• Task-based learning​

• Audio-lingual methodology​

• Communicative approach​

A teaching approach that relied on behaviourism –and so was based on repetition.​

• Grammar translation​

• Task-based learning​

• Audio-lingual methodology​

• Communicative approach​

Students are given chances to use the language in the classroom. Their success is judged on how well they achieve their objectives using the language.

• Grammar translation​

• Task-based learning​

• Audio-lingual methodology​

• Communicative approach​