Unit 15

APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TEACHING

The ways and the methods we use in the classroom refer to the approaches we base on. One of the traditional and most use approach is the Communicative approach that mainly use communicative activities witch focus on fluency. Our beliefs about teaching, language and learning a language can be transfer in approaches, by practicing in classroom. There are a many varieties of approaches that allows teacher prepare good classes, which can have a great influence in learners and on English language teaching practices and materials as PPP(Presentation, Practice and Production) ,Lexical Approach, Functional Approach, Grammar Translation, Total Physical Respond and so on.

A good example of PPP approached could be:

• ·         Flashcards mime and presenting the target language in a short conversation and in context, all of these help students to understand the meaning of language.
• ·         Drilling -to repeat together the sentence they are learning (target language). This can be done over the presentation part of your lesson.
• ·         Production, using sentence gap filling or sentence ordering  as  if I had taught past tense verbs (went shopping/to the cinema/played, could be a good activity to develop this approach. 

In this video you will find a bit explanation about some different approaches teachers can use in their classes 

YouTube, (2014). CELTA - Different approaches to teaching language -PPP to TBL. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r-DRmN42fE.