Nor Suhada Ab Manaf Saidah Nafisah Sadini Shassi Kumaran A/L Pachimuthu Mohd Khalis Munzir Khazin

HISTORY

 proposed as a reaction to the profusion of teaching methods in the 1970s and 1980s & the dogmatism often found in the application of these methods. Memorandum on the Teaching of Modern Languages published in 1929 recommended the eclectic "Compromise Method" as a solution to the language teaching method debate (Stern, 1983, p. 101).

 Main proponent- Rivers (1981, Teaching Foreign Language Skills).

An eclectic approach allows language teachers "to absorb the best techniques of all the well-known language-teaching methods into their classroom procedures, using them for the purposes for which they are most appropriate" (p. 55). This is necessary and important because teachers "faced with the daily task of helping students to learn a new language cannot afford the luxury of complete dedication to each new method or approach that comes into vogue." (1981, p. 54).

IMAGINE
Have you ever been to a buffet with row after row of delectable desserts? Chocolate covered strawberries and triple-layer fudge chocolate cake......

Assuming you have no food allergies, can eat anything you want without gaining an ounce, and love sweets..

You've piled on your personal favorites : icecream, cupcake, strawberry cheesecake and a huge chocolate clair

and then, out of nowhere, a big voice demands:

Only one treat per person and no seconds!

You look down at your five-pound chilled plate, now overflowing and dripping in whip cream and fudge sauce. You panic.
"Oh no! I have to put some of this back? Can't I just take one bite of each one?

But its no use.

 With the eclectic style of teaching, you don't have to take anything off your plate, in fact, you can take everything you want, and go back for seconds!
Eclectic teaching and curriculum works like an all-you-can-eat buffet.

DEFINITION

 Eclectic means not following one style or set of ideas but choosing from or using a wide variety (Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary 8th Edition, 2010:482) The word 'eclectic' is based on Greek eklegin (to select). choosing from different methods to suite for one's teaching purposes and situations The careful, principled combination of sound ideas from sound sources into a harmonious whole that yield the best result. (Hammerly, 1991, p.18)

WHY USE ECLECTIC METHOD?

 "One size fits all" is not applicable Must consider: Who? (Who
How? (What approach and which techniques are most appropriate in this situation?) are my students?)

What? (What kind of course or learning materials do they need?)

Brown (1994b, p. 74) language learning requires an eclectic blend of tasks each tailored for a particular group of learners

Three Types of Learning Styles

think in terms of pictures and learn best from visuals and handout
learn best by listening. like lecture and classroom discussions, and they might need to read written material aloud in order to fully understand it
learn through touching, feeling, and experiencing the world around them. do well with hands-on experiments, but they may have a hard time sitting through lectures and notes.

Visual learners

Auditory learners

Tactile/kinesthetic learners

 Activity 1: Reading of Passage (10 Mins Approx) Activity 2: Question Answering about Passage (10 Mins Approx) Activity 3: Fill in the Blanks (10 Mins Approx) Activity 4: Past Simple Practice (10 Mins Approx)

ROLE OF TEACHER

as a facilitator

higher rank official-uses his authority to conduct the class

creative in using different approaches

ROLE OF STUDENT

Active participantsteacher will always try to involve the learners.

be cooperative and they will be allowed to communicate, self correct each other- should learn from each other, not simply from the

ask questions about the substance provided for teaching learning activities.

CRITISM

"it does not offer any guidance on what basis and by what principles aspects of different methods can be selected and combined." Stern (1983, p. 512), Degenerate into unsystematic, unprincipled and uncritical pedagogy because the teacher who has very little professional preparation will just randomly put together a package of techniques from various methods and label it eclectic. Johnson (1998, 1999) noted that eclecticisms strength is recognition of diversity, its weakness a tendency to vagueness and lack of principle (p. 104).

STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS

STRENGTH
Adjust present technologies education to the environment -learning will not become boring Learning should be fun and innovative due to the unique nature and capabilities of each child.

WEAKNESS
Different approaches are very different from each other it is difficult to combine them to make one new theory Lack of principle

May lead to confusion-no guidance on what basis and by what principles aspects of different methods can be selected and combined

REFERENCES

http://www.auburn.edu/~nunnath/engl6240 /othermet.html http://linguisticslearner.blogspot.com/2011/ 09/eclectic-approach-in-teachingenglish.html http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/ http://edevaluator.org/rivers/10Principles_3. html