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arabera Carrizo, Florencia 3 years ago

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Approaches and methods in language teaching

The nature of language learning encompasses various theories and methodologies that have evolved over time. In the 21st century, language teaching methods incorporate both process-oriented and condition-oriented theories.

Approaches and methods in language teaching

Names: Carrizo, Mirna Florencia Ovando, Agustin Santo, Irene Course: 3ro "B"

HUMANISTIC APPROACHES (1970s)

Theories about the nature of language learning

*Process-oriented theories *Condition-oriented theories

Theories about the nature of language

Structural view Functional view Interactional view

Classroom techniques, practices and behaviours that operate when a method is used.

Alternatives to PPP

PPP and alternatives to PPP

TBL

TASK BASED LEARNING
Makes the performance of meaningful tasks central to the learning process. Students are presented with a task they have to perform, instead of a language structureto be learnt.

TTT

TEST- TEACH- TEST
TEST:Provide the students with an activity which uses the target language. Monitor the students and see what they can and cannot do. TEACH:Teach the students the language they do not know or have trouble with. TEST:Test the students on the language you have just taught in the form of one or more activities.

ESA

ENGAGE, STUDY AND ACTIVATE
Engage:The teacher generates interest in the language point, vocabulary, etc., to be taught Study:Study the main language point Activate: students are encouraged to use all and/ or any of the language they know.

MMM

MEETING new language, MANIPULATING it and MAKING the language your own.
A more learner-centred, child-friendly view of PPP, used by University of Nottingham ITE team.

21st century LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODS

Design

Techniques

Is what actually happens in the classroom. It is a particular trick or stratagem used to accomplish an objective.

Refer to a broader relationship between theory and practice: Approach and Procedure.

Methods

Procedures

Approaches

Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

What methodoly?

According to academic research, linguists have demostrated that there is not one single best method for everyone in all contexts, and that no one teaching method is inherently superior to the others. Also, it is no way possible to apply the same methodology to all leaners who have different objectives, environments and learning needs.
Good teachers do not have one method of teaching or addressing a class. You should never judge a teacher by the teaching method they use. The real criteria is what is the main learning style in a class room and is the teacher using a method that address that learning style 60% of the time and addressing the other 2 learning styles in portion to the percentage of the class.

What makes a good teacher great?

Teaching Methods for Inspiring the Students of the Future

Neuroscience Education and Teaching (21th)

Educational neuroscience (or neuroeducation, a component of Mind Brain and Education) is an emerging scientific field that brings together researchers in cognitive neuroscience, developmental cognitive neuroscience, educational psychology, educational technology, education theory and other related disciplines to explore the interactions between biological processes and education.
Cognitive Neuroscience is “..a branch of neuroscience concerned with the biological processes of the nervous system which form the basis of cognitive functioning”. It’s our thinking, remembering, reasoning, decision-making — how the brain learns, retrieves and applies information– everything involving conscious intellectual activity.

FRONTAL CORTEX

9 Functions of the PREFONTAL CORTEX * EMPATHY * INSIGHT * RESPONSE FLEXIBILITY * EMOTION REGULATION * BODY REGULATION * MORALITY * INTUITION * ATTUNED COMMUNICATION * FEAR MODULATION

Neuroscience is the study of the brain and the nervous system

WHY DOES TEACHER SHOULD INCLUDE NEUROSCIENCE IN TEACHING?

NEUROSCIENCE

The neuroscience of how the brain learns and what influences the most successful brain acquisition and application of learning should be included in all teacher education programs. Teachers need to be prepared with foundational knowledge to understand, evaluate, and apply the neuroscience of learning. With this knowledge they will be able to recognize future implications from this rapidly expanding field of research to increase the effectiveness of their teaching and build and sustain students’ joy of learning.

Flipped learning (2007)

Flipped learning is a pedagogical approach in wich direc instructions moves from the group learning space to the invididual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learningn environment where the educators guides students as the apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter. Jon Bergmann: In 2007, HE discovered some software that would record lectures live. Then in the spring of that year we had an idea for what is now known as the flipped classroom, where he stopped giving the lectures. He committed the following year to prerecording all our lectures, as he now had a bigger vision for that. As a note, he didn't call it the flipped classroom--he called it pre-broadcasting--and eventually it became known as the flipped classroom or inverted classroom.
TRADITIONAL VS FLIPPED CLASSROOM

Blended Learning Integration (21th)

Technology is rapidly changing and an increasing number of organisations and private learning institutions are beginning to see the benefits of a blended learning approach. Gradually, the union between face-to-face instruction and technology-based learning is producing new and creative ways to enrich the educational experience and make learning fun, exciting, and even more beneficial. Blended learning is an approach to education that combines online educational materials and opportunities for interaction online with traditional place-based classroom methods. It requires the physical presence of both teacher and student, with some elements of student control over time, place, path, or pace.
The don’ts 1. Teach to the lowest proficiency level. 2. Only focus on fun.
The dos 1. Offer a wide mix of activities. 2. Assign group work and encourage peer support. 3. Provide assignments of varying difficulty

BENEFITS OF USING BLENDED LEARNING- ARTICLE

Gamification (2002)

Nick Pelling coined the term GAMIFICATION in 2002 meaning "applying game- like accelerated user interface design to make electronic transactions both enjoyable and fast. it is de use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems motivate them to certain behaviour. The concept of Gamification is basically new, and according to Werbach and Hunter (2012), is the use of game elements and game design techniques in non-game contexts. It is based in the success of the gaming industry, social media, and decades of research in human psychology. Basically, any task, assignment, process or theoretical context can be gamified. The main objectives focuses on increasing the participation of a person, which most of the time is called or mentioned as an “user”, and motivate him/her by incorporating game elements and techniques, like leaderboards and immediate feedback. This

Technology and Education: Digital literacy (1997)

Multiple Intelligences (1983)

Multiple Intelligences (MI) is based on the work of Howard Gardner (1983). He notes that traditional IQ tests measure only logic and language but the brain has other equally important types of intelligences. He argues that all humans have these intelligences but people differ in the strenght and combination of them. However, they can be enhanced through training and practice.
Multiple Intelligences.

What learning style are you?

What type of learner are you? Click the world and answer it!

Linguistics

Logical/Mathematical

Spatial/Visual

Musical

Bodily/Kinaesthetic

Interpersonal

Intrapersonal

Naturalistic

The Natural Approach (1983)

The term Natural Approach (or Natural Method) was first used in the nineteenth century by Tracy Terrell and Stephen Krashen to describe teaching methods that attempted to mirror the processes of learning a second language.
Learners were initially exposed to meaningful language, not forced to speak until they felt ready to, and not corrected or given explicit grammar instruction. The method was characterized by a lot of teacher talk, made intelligible through the use of visual aids and actions.

Krashen’s language acquisition theory

The affective filter hypothesis: emotional state or attitudes as an adjustable filter that freely passes, impedes, or blocks input necessary to acquisition. The hypothesis is built on research in second language acquisition, which has identified three kinds of affective or attitudinal variables related to second language acquisition:

Low Anxiety. Low personal anxiety and low classroom anxiety are more conducive to second language acquisition.

Self-confidence. Learners with self-confidence and a good self-image tend to be more successful.

Motivation. Learners with high motivation generally do better.

The input hypothesis: first, the hypothesis relates to acquisition, and not to learning. Second, people acquire language best by understanding input that is slightly beyond their current level of competence.

The natural order hypothesis: certain grammatical structures or morphemes are acquired before others in first language acquisition of English, and a similar natural order is found in second language acquisition.

The monitor hypothesis: conscious learning can function only as a monitor or editor that checks and repairs the output. Therefore,aquisition is always much better for learnig.

The acquisition/learning hypothesis: there are two distinctive ways of developing competence in a second or foreign language.

Learning, by contrast, refers to a process in which conscious rules about a language are developed.

Acquisition refers to an unconscious process that involves the naturalistic development of language proficiency through understanding language and through using language for meaningful communication.

Theory of language: Krashen and Terrell see communication as the primary function of language, and since their approach focuses on teaching communicative abilities, they refer to the Natural Approach as an example of a communicative approach.

Theory of learning: Krashen and Terrell make continuing reference to the theoretical and research base claimed to underlie the Natural Approach and to the fact that the method is unique in having such a base.

Content-based Instruction (1980s)

Content-Based Instruction (CBI), developed by Krahnke (1980s), refers to an approach to second language teaching in which teaching is organized around the content or information that students will acquire, rather than around a linguistic or other type of syllabus.
It is the teaching of content or information in the language being learned with little or no direct or explicit effort to teach the language itself separately from the content being taught.

Competency-based Language Teaching (1970s)

Competency-Based Language Teaching (CBLT) focuses on what “learners are expected to do with the language” (Richards & Rodgers). This approach emerged in the United States in the 1970s and can be described as “defining educational goals in terms of precise measurable descriptions of the knowledge, skills, and behaviors students should possess at the end of a course of study”. Competency-based learning refers to systems of instruction, assessment, grading, and academic reporting that are based on students demonstrating that they have learned the knowledge and skills they are expected to learn as they progress through their education.

Whole Language (1970s)

CLT Since (1970s)

Also referred to as the COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
CLT

It developed through the Council of Europe

The goal of language learning is COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE. A language is learnt through communication. CLT is a set of general principles that refer to how communication can be the focus of teaching and learning.

Principles: *learners learn a language using it to communicate *Authentic and meaningful communication are the goal of classroom activities. *Fluency is an important dimension. *Communication involves the integration of different language skills. *Learning involves trial and error.

Suggestopedia (mid 1970s)

Suggestopedia, also known as Desuggestopedia, is a method developed by Georgi Lozanov (mid 1970s). The application of the study of suggestion to pedagogy, has been developed to help students believe that they can be successful and, thus, to help stufents overcome the barriers to learning.
The most conspicuous characteristics of Suggestopedia are the decoration, furniture, and arrangement of the classroom, the use of music, and the authoritative behavior of the teacher.

There are three principal theoretical components through which desuggestion and suggestion operate and that set up access to reserves.

Double-planedness: the learner learns not only from the effect of direct instruction but from the environment in which the instruction takes place.

Infantilization: in the child’s role the learner takes part in role playing, games, songs, and gymnastic exercises

Authority: people remember best and are most influenced by information coming from an authoritative source.

to bring about increased selfesteem through increased self-satisfaction in musical performance

A most conspicuous feature of Suggestopedia is the centrality of music and musical rhythm to learning. There are three functions of music in therapy:

to use the unique potential of rhythm to energize and bring order

to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of personal relations

The Silent Way (early 1970s)

The Silent Way is the name of a method of language teaching devised by Caleb Gattegno (early 1970s). It is based on the premise that the teacher should be silent as much as possible in the classroom but the learner should be encouraged to produce as much language as possible.

Community Language Learning (late 1960s)

Community Language Learning (CLL) is the name of a method developed by Charles A. Curran (late 1960s). This method advises teachers to consider their students as 'whole persons.' Whole-person learning means that teachers consider not only their students' intellect, bur also have some understanding of the relationship among students ' feelings, physical reactions, instinctive protective reactions, and desire to learn. His application of psychological counseling techniques to learning is known as Counseling-Learning. A language counselor does not mean someone trained in psychology; it means someone who is a skillful understander of the struggle students face as they attempt to internalize another language. The teacher who can 'understand' can indicate his acceptance of the student. By understanding students' fears and being sensitive to them.

Total Physical Response (1965)

Total Physical Response (TPR) is a language teaching method built around the coordination of speech and action; it attempts to teach language through physical (motor) activity. Developed by James Asher (1965), it drawson several traditions, including developmental psychology, learning theory, and humanistic pedagogy, as well as on language teaching. He claims that speech directed to young children consists primarily of commands, which children respond to physically before they begin to produce verbal responses.
Asher has elaborated an account of what he feels facilitatesor inhibits foreign language learning. For this dimension of his learningtheory he draws on three rather influential learning hypotheses:

1. There exists a specific innate bio-program for language learning, which defines an optimal path for first and second language development. 2. Brain lateralization defines different learning functions in the left- and right-brain hemispheres. 3. Stress (an affective filter) intervenes between the act of learning and what is to be learned; the lower the stress, the greater the learning.

Reduction of stress

The key to stress-free learning is to tap into the natural bio-program for language development and thus to recapture the relaxed and pleasurable experiences that accompany first language learning. By focusing on meaning interpreted through movement, rather than on language forms studied in the abstract, the learner is said to be liberated from self-conscious and stressful situations and is able to devote full energy to learning.

Brain lateralization

Asher sees Total Physical Response as directed to right-brain learning,whereas most second language teaching methods are directed to leftbrain learning. Asher holds that the child language learner acquires language through motor movement – a right-hemisphere activity. Right-hemisphere activities must occur before the left hemisphere can process language for production.

The bio-program

Asher’s Total Physical Response is a “Natural Method” and sees three processes as central:

1. Children develop listening competence before they develop the ability to speak. At the early stages of first language acquisition, they canunderstand complex utterances that they cannot spontaneously produce or imitate. 2. Children’s ability in listening comprehension is acquired because childrenare required to respond physically to spoken language in the form of parental commands. 3. Once a foundation in listening comprehension has been established, speech evolves naturally and effortlessly out of it.

PRESENTATION PRACTICE AND PRODUCTION (1960s)

Dates from the late 1960s
PPP
PRESENTATION, PRACTICE AND PRODUCTION is a procedure whose main objective is to place language in clear situational CONTEXTS. A variation on Audiolingualism.

THE AUDIOLINGUAL METHOD (evolved in the 1950s and 60s)

THE SITUATIONAL-STRUCTURAL APPROACH (evolved between 1920s and 1930s)

Project-basedlearning 1897 (beginning of 20th)

John Dewey is recognized as one of the early proponents of project-based education through his idea of "learning by doing" (1897). Educational research has advanced this idea of teaching and learning into a methodology known as "project-based learning". William Heard Kilpatrick built on the theory of Dewey and introduced the project method as a component of Dewey's problem method of teaching.
Project-based learning goals: Students work on a project over an extended period of time – from a week up to a semester – that engages them in solving a real-world problem or answering a complex question. They demonstrate their knowledge and skills by creating a public product or presentation for a real audience. As a result, students develop deep content knowledge as well as critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication skills. Project Based Learning unleashes a contagious, creative energy among students and teachers.

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