(a) The Overview of Curriculum and the Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching related to approach, procedure, and design

Approach and method

referring to general principles and theories concerning how languages are learned, how knowledge of language is represented and organized in memory.

Objectives

teach general communication skill and give greater priority to the ability to express oneself meaningfull and to make oneself understood that to grammatical accuracy or perfect pronunciation.

Conclusion

approaches and methods in use today.

Design

selected and organized within the method, that is, the syllabus model the method incorporates.

learning tasks and teaching activities the method advocates

the roles of learners

the roles of teachers

The grammar-Translation Method

foreing language study is to learn a language in orden to read its literature or in order to benefit from the mental discipline and intellectual devolopment that result from foreign language study

Reading and writing are the major focus little or no systematic attention is paid to speaking or listening

Vocabulary selection is based solely on the reading texts

Approach

refers to theories about nature language and language learning it referens to the "philosophy" or belief system that a method reflects.

The emergence of methods

changes in the goals of language teaching, such as a move toward oral proficiency rather than reading comprehension as the goal of language study.

changes in the theories of the nature of language and of language learning.

The influence of latin

english is the worlds most widely studied foreign or second language, 500 years ago it was latin, for it was the dominant language of education, comerce, religion, and government in the western world.