A brief History of language teaching 1853- 2003

  • 322

    Aristotle

    The importance of Latin and Greek
  • 347

    Plato

  • Grammar Translation Method

  • Direct Method - Natural Method

    was established in Germany and France around 1900. It appeared as an answer to the shortcomings of the Grammar Translation Method. It is a method for teaching foreign languages that uses the target language, discarding any use of mother tongue in the classroom
  • The Audiolingual Method

    he Audio-lingual Method is a method of foreign language teaching which emphasizes the teaching of listening and speaking before reading and writing. It uses dialogues as the main form of language presentation and drills as the main training techniques. Mother tongue is discouraged in the classroom.
  • Syntactic Structures - Noam Chomsky

    A grammar which allows creativity: capacity to produce and understand an infinitive number or sentences
  • Suggestopedia- Georgi Lozanov

    It capitalizes on relaxed states of mind for maximum retention of material.
    Music is central to this method
  • Total Physical Response - James Asher

    It is language teaching method built around the coordination of speech and action throught commands
    no verbal response is necessary at the beginning
  • The silent way - Celeb Gattegno

    Learnes should develop independence ,autonomy and responsability. The teacher is silent most of the time coloured rods and charts
  • The communicative Approach - Communicative Language Teaching

    The goal of language teaching is to develop communicative competence
    A person who develops communicative competence develops both knowledge and ability for language use
  • Communicaty Language Learning -Charles Curran-

    counselling
    No prepare Material
    A knower stands outside a circle of students and helps students say what they want by translating,suggesting or amending the students utterances.
  • The Natural Approach - Stephen Krashen - Tracy Terrell

    Its sees communication as the primary function of language
    importance of input
    Two ways of developing competence: Acquisition and Learning
  • Noam Chomsky - Generative Grammar-

    Generative grammar is a linguistic theory that regards linguistics as the study of a hypothesised innate grammatical structure.[3] A sociobiological[4] modification of structuralist theories, especially glossematics,[5][6] generative grammar considers grammar as a system of rules that generates exactly those combinations of words that form grammatical sentences in a given language.
  • Task Based Approach

    Students are no taught language points in advance, but rather are given communicative tasks to prepare for.
  • Lexical view of language - Michael Lewis

    The lexical approach is a method of teaching foreign languages described by Michael Lewis in the early 1990s. The basic concept on which this approach rests is the idea that an important part of learning a language consists of being able to understand and produce lexical phrases as chunks.
  • Output- Feedback

    the teacher listens to the student, notes the problem down , and then goes through a sequence involving concepts and guiding him/her
  • The modern integrated language teacher

    Use of task based approach and output. feedback