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17th century
Johann Comenius
Spiritual development of the student. Association with their world around. Inductive. Use the language. Imitation. Repeat after the teacher. -
19th century
Grammar translation approach: Stude grammar and translate texts. Direct method: Only speaking on the FL. -
1930
Other methods, such as situational language teaching, were created -
1950
Audiolingualism
Lessons focus on drilling; students repeated the same target language items again and again. Was based on psychological theories of Behaviorism because it involved a stimulus provided by the teacher or by a tape a response provided by the learner and feedback provided again by the teacher. -
1970
- Communicative language teaching: is an influential teaching method
- Total physical response or tpr: the teacher gives commands to the students with body movements and the students respond by imitating these movements.
- Humanistic language teaching: based on the idea that the whole social and emotional human being and not just the mind should be involved in learning a language.
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1980
- Silent way: teacher silent as much as possible.
- Suggestopedia: learning happens accidentally and naturally.
- Community Language Learning: teacher as a counsellor. Make students more independent.
- Task based language teaching: students can learn language by doing tasks.
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1990
DOGME: without textbooks, only conversation. -
2000
Content Language Integrative Learning: curricular content and foreign languages are taught together