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Topic 1 Index
0. Introduction.
1. Development Of Language Teaching.
1.1. Ancient Times.
1.2. Early Stages.
1.3. The Grammar-Translation Method.
1.4. Language Teaching Innovations in the 19Th Century: The
Reform Movement.
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0. Introduction
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This unit aims to provide a detailed account of the evolution of language teaching
from its origins to the current trends in the teaching of a foreign language.
In order to do so, the different sections in the unit will enable us to know about the
different methods, approaches and language acquisition theories on the teaching
of English as a foreign language in various periods, paying special attention to the
communicative approaches present nowadays.
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1. Development of Language
Teaching
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To the Tudors, English was the language of the nation. French was seen as an
accomplishment necessary for people with ambition towards culture, and Latin
remained the mark of a properly educated person. Going to school meant
learning Latin grammar (neither French nor English had a proper grammar yet).
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Educators recognized the need for speaking proficiency rather than reading
comprehension, grammar, or literary appreciation. But the ideas and methods
of Marcel, Prendergast, Gouin and other innovators were developed outside the
context of established circles of education and hence lacked the means for wider
dissemination, acceptance and implementation.
At the end of the 19th century teachers and linguists began to write about the need
for new approaches to language teaching, and through their pamphlets, books,
speeches, and articles, the foundation for more widespread pedagogical reforms
was laid. This effort became known as the Reform Movement in language teaching.
Marcel, Prendergast, and Gouins ideas failed to receive widespread support or attention
but, from the 1880s, Henry Sweet, W. Vitor, and Paul Passy began to provide the
intellectual leadership needed to give reformist ideas greater credibility and acceptance.
Linguists emphasized that speech, rather than the written word, was the primary
form of language. Therefore, the International Phonetic Association was founded
in 1886, and its International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) was designed to enable the
sounds of any language to be accurately transcribed. One of the earliest goals of
the association was to improve the teaching of modern languages. It advocated:
The study of spoken language.
Phonetic training in order to establish good pronunciation habits.
The use of conversation texts and dialogues to introduce conversational
phrases and idioms.
An inductive approach to the teaching of grammar.
Teaching new meanings through establishing associations within the target
language rather than with the mother tongue.
Henry Sweet (1845-1912), in his book The Practical Study of Languages, set four
principles for the development of teaching methods:
1. Careful selection of what is to be taught.
2. Imposing limits on what is to be taught.
3. Arranging what is to be taught in terms of the four skills of listening,
speaking, reading, and writing.
4. Grading materials from simple to complex.
W. Vitor (1850-1918) argued that training in phonetics would enable teachers
to pronounce the language accurately. Speech patterns, rather than grammar,
were the fundamental elements of language. In 1882 he published his views
in Language Teaching Must Start Afresh, in which he strongly criticized the
inadequacies of Grammar-Translation and stressed the value of training teachers
in the new science of phonetics.
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Vitor, Sweet, and other reformers in the late 19th century believed that:
The spoken language is primary and this should be reflected in an oral based
methodology.
The findings of phonetics should be applied to teaching and to teacher
training.
Learners should hear the language first, before seeing it in written form.
Words should be presented in sentences, and sentences should be practiced
in meaningful contexts.
The rules of grammar should be taught only after the students have practiced
the grammar points in context that is, grammar should be taught inductively.
Translation should be avoided, although the mother tongue could be used in
order to explain new words or to check comprehension.
These principles reflect the beginnings of the discipline of applied linguistics.
But parallel to the ideas put forward by members of the Reform Movement
was an interest in developing principles for language teaching out of naturalistic
principles in language learning, such as are seen in first language acquisition. This
led to what came to be known as the Direct Method.
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2.2 Audiolingualism
The appearance of the Audiolingual Method resulted from the increased
attention given to foreign language teaching in the United States toward the
end of the 1950s. Language teaching specialists set about developing a method
that was applicable to conditions in U.S. colleges and university classrooms.
Audiolingualism claimed to have transformed language teaching from an art to
a science, which would enable learners to achieve mastery of a foreign language
effectively and efficiently. It was widely adopted for teaching foreign languages
in North American colleges and universities. It provided the methodological
foundation for materials for the teaching of foreign languages at college and
university level in the United States and Canada.
The more central principles of Audiolingualism are the following:
Foreign language learning is basically a process of mechanical habit formation.
Good habits are formed by giving correct responses rather than by making
mistakes. By memorizing dialogues and performing pattern drills the chances
of producing mistakes are minimized. Language is verbal behavior that is,
the automatic production and comprehension of utterances and can be
learned by inducing the students to do likewise.
Language skills are learned more effectively if the items to be learned in the
target language are presented in spoken form before they are seen in written
form. Oral training is needed to provide the foundation for the development
of language skills.
Analogy provides a better foundation for language learning than analysis.
Analogy involves the processes of generalization and discrimination.
Explanations of rules are therefore not given until students have practiced a
pattern in a variety of contexts and are thought to have acquired a perception
of the analogies involved. Drills can enable learners to form correct analogies.
Hence the approach to the teaching of grammar is essentially inductive rather
than deductive.
The meanings that the words of a language have for the native speaker can be
learned only in a linguistic and cultural context and not in isolation. Teaching
a language thus involves teaching aspects of the cultural system of the people
who speak the language.
Audiolingualists demanded a complete reorientation of the foreign language
curriculum. They advocated a return to speech-based instruction with the primary
objective of oral proficiency, and dismissed the study of grammar or literature as
the goal of foreign language teaching.
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Asher also referred to the fact that language can be internalized as wholes or
chunks, rather than as single lexical items.
The general objectives of Total Physical Response are to teach oral proficiency at a
beginning level. Comprehension is a means to an end, and the ultimate aim is to teach
basic speaking skills. Specific instructional objectives are not elaborated, for these will
depend on the particular needs of the learners. Whatever goals are set, they must be
attainable through the use of action-based drills in the imperative form.
Total Physical Response requires initial attention to meaning rather than to
the form of items. Grammar is taught inductively. Grammatical features and
vocabulary items are selected according to the situations in which they can be
used in the classroom and the ease with which they can be learned.
Imperative drills are the major classroom activity in Total Physical Response. They are
used to elicit physical actions and activity on the part of the learners. Conversational
dialogues are delayed until after about 120 hours of instruction. Other class activities
include role plays, centered on everyday situations, and slide presentations, used to
provide a visual center for teacher narration followed by commands and questions to
students. Reading and writing activities may also be employed to further consolidate
structures and vocabulary, and as follow-ups to oral imperative drills.
Total Physical Response typically deals with only the very beginning stages of
learning. Asher himself stressed that it should be used in association with other
methods and techniques.
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The general objective of the Silent Way is to give beginning level students oral
and aural facility in basic elements of the target language. The general goal set
for language learning is near-native fluency in the target language, and correct
pronunciation and mastery of the prosodic elements of the target language are
emphasized.
The Silent Way adopts a basically structural syllabus, with lessons planned around
grammatical items and related vocabulary. Typically, the imperative is the initial
structure introduced. Vocabulary is selected according to the degree to which
it can be manipulated within a given structure and according to its productivity
within the classroom setting.
Learning tasks and activities in the Silent Way have the function of encouraging
and shaping student oral response without direct oral instruction from the
teacher. Charts, rods, and other aids may be used to elicit learner responses.
Responses to commands, questions, and visual cues constitute the basis for
classroom activities.
The innovations in Gattegnos method derive primarily from the manner in which
classroom activities are organized, the indirect role the teacher is required to
assume, the responsibility placed upon learners, and the materials used to elicit
and practice language.
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2.7 Suggestopedia
Suggestopedia is a method developed by the Bulgarian psychiatrist-educator
Georgi Lozanov. It is a specific set of learning recommendations derived from
Suggestology, which Lozanov describes as a science concerned with the
systematic study of the nonrational and/or nonconscious influences that human
beings are constantly responding to.
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components:
grammatical,
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4. Conclusion
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On revising all these language teaching theories we can get a sense of the wide
range of proposals made from the ancient times to the present, all with their
weaknesses and strengths. We have gone through methods based only on
translating sentences and learning grammar rules by heart to more natural and
communicative approaches where communication is the base and the main
element in order to learn a foreign language. We have also seen that whereas
some centuries ago, the mother tongue was fundamental and widely use in the
teaching of a foreign language, nowadays, it is simply not used in foreign language
classes.
Still, we shall add that there is a constant preoccupation for teachers and linguists
to find more efficient and effective new methods in the teaching of a foreign
language and that we have to be very aware of the new theories and ideas that
come to light in order to teach our students in the best possible way.
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5. Bibliography
A History of English Teaching. HOWATT, A.P. 1985. Oxford: OUP
A Practical Guide to the Teaching of English as a Second or Foreign Language.
RIVERS, W. & TEMPERLEY, M. 1978. Oxford: OUP
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching: a description and analysis.
RICHARDS, J & RODGERS, T. 1986. Cambridge: CUP
Communicative Approaches to Second Language Teaching and Testing.
CANALE,M & SWAIN, M. 1980. Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Education
Communicative Language Teaching. LITTLEWOOD,W. 1981. Cambridge
Communicative Methodology in Language Teaching. BRUMFIT, C. 1984.
Cambridge: CUP
Foreign and Second Language Learning. LITTLEWOOD, W. 1981. Cambridge:
CUP
Teaching techniques for Communicative English. REVELL, J. 1979. London:
McMillan
The Context of Language Teaching. RICHARDS, J. 1985. Cambridge: CUP
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