1.1 Traditional language teaching

The so-called "traditional method" of teaching languages is...

• Behaviorist method

• Innatist approach

• Grammar-Translation method

• Communicative language teaching

Look at the following extract of a website designed for learning English. Which language teaching method do you think it most directly relates to?

• Web-based Language Learning

• Behaviorist Method

• Grammar-Translation Method

• Communicative Method

When the teaching of modern foreign languages started in a systematic way in schools, on which basis was the teaching methodology created?

• On the teaching of the mother tongue.

• On the teaching of classical languages.

• On behaviorist principles of stimulus-response reinforcement.

• On a theory of learning based in scientific evidence.

Why is it that a large proportion of foreign language teachers still continue to use the techniques of the Grammar-Translation Method?

• Beginning language learners need grammar to be able to express themselves.

• The Grammar-Translation Method has proven to be effective.

• Due to the mediocrity of the teachers and the cultural importance of tradition.

• The tendency of teachers to reproduce what they have seen as learners.

Look at the video: https://youtu.be/zcW4KAQRE1o?t=23.

What do you think is the dominant teaching method used here? Do you think it is exactly this method, or are there some things that are not exactly as the method?

• Behaviorist Method, but some principles are not respected and it is not as good.

• Grammar-Translation Method, used exactly as is.

• Grammar-Translation Method, but some aspects have been improved.

• Grammar-Translation Method, but some principles are not respected and it is not as good.