Grammar-Translation Method

What are the goals of teachers who use the Grammar-Translation

Method?

• The purpose is that students learn how to communicate

  in the English language

• The purpose of learning a language is to be able to read literature written in the English language.

• The purpose is use the English language communicatively

• Students become independent by relying on themselves

What is the role of the teacher?

• The role is very traditional. The teacher do as the student say.

• The role is very traditional. Teacher learn what student know.

• Teacher is a leader, directing and controlling the student behavior.

• The role is very traditional. The teacher is the authority in the classroom

What is the role of the students?

• Students are imitators of the teacher’s model.

• The students do as the teacher says so they can learn.

• The student role is less passive than the teacher

• The student role is less active than the teacher.

What are some characteristics of the teaching/learning process?

• Students memorize grammar rules and vocabulary.

• Students are taught to translate from one language into another.

• Teacher demonstrates the meaning through the use of realia, pictures, or pantomime.

• Students study grammar deductively.

What areas of language are emphasized?

• vocabulary
• reading

• pronunciation

• grammar

• writing

What language skills are emphasized?

• Grammar

• Reading

• Writing

• Vocabulary

• Speaking

How is evaluation accomplished?

• Students write dialogs and speechs.

• Students translate from their native language into

  the target language or vice versa in an exam.

• We did not actually see any formal evaluation in the class.

• Students make an oral exam.

How does the teacher respond to student errors?

• If students make errors or do not know an answer, the student supplies them with the correct answer.

• If students make errors or do not know an answer, the teacher don´t say anything.

• If students make errors or do not know an answer, the teacher supplies them with the correct answer.

• If students make errors or do not know an answer, the teacher ask to their partners.