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Audio-Lingual method - ANSWER ✔ This is a drilling method where
a student listens and then repeats. Students practise different dialogues
for different situations
Structural-Situational method - ANSWER ✔ A model pattern is
introduced and often practised with drilling. However, context is added
to the scenarios. Grammatical rules are learnt one at a time.
Task Based Learning - ANSWER ✔ With this form of learning, the
students are given a task and try to work out the structure themselves.
Often there is no formal instruction and students must find the solution
themselves.
The Grammar-Translation method - ANSWER ✔ Students have to
memorise grammar rules and vocabulary and practise by translating
sentences from their mother tongue into the foreign language. There is
little time spent developing oral skills.
Direct Method or Oral method or Natural method - ANSWER ✔ This
method advocates teaching in only the target language. This method also
focuses on teaching oral skills, practice in having conversations, and
, improving pronunciation. Writing and reading is developed later.
Grammar is learnt using the inductive approach.
Silent Way - ANSWER ✔ he teacher will say as little as possible and
encourages students to create their own language, prompted by physical
objects.
Immersion: - ANSWER ✔ students are immersed in English
throughout the day in school. They are taught all subjects in English.
This method is often used in Asian schools.
Lexical Approach - ANSWER ✔ In this approach, the students are
taught the most commonly used lexical chunks of words and structures.
The idea is that common phrases are taught
Eclectic Approach - ANSWER ✔ all of the above teaching methods
and bits from the Communicative Approach below and uses styles which
suit learners at different levels.
Communicative Approach - ANSWER ✔ Drilling is a form of
repetition, getting students to repeat after you. Drilling comes from the
behaviourist theorists of the 1950's who concluded that habit forming
was a good way to learn a new language
Drilling: - ANSWER ✔ Drilling is a form of repetition, getting
students to repeat after you. Drilling comes from the behaviourist