Approaches to Language Teaching William E. Yugsán April 7, 2015

1. Our view of language What is an approach to language teaching? 2. How language learning takes place Set of grammar rules Learning takes place by learning (memorizing) those rules

Language is a tool to communicate meaning COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES 1. Our view of language 2. How language learning takes place By using communicative activities that focus on fluency

APPROACH OR METHOD interchangeable expressions Approach : theories about the nature of language and language learning that serve as the source of practices and principles in language teaching Is a set of correlative assumptions. Method : Is an overall plan for the orderly presentation of language material It is procedural theory is put into practice and particular skills are taught. (the content and the order it will be presented).

What is a technique? Implementation level (takes a place in a classroom). It is the level at which classroom procedures are designated Techniques must be consistent with a method, in harmony with an approach as well

Approaches Structural approach (PPP) Lexical approach Functional approach Communicative approach Grammar – translation (method) Total Physical Response (TPR) Guided Discovery Content based learning Content and language integrated Learning (CLIL)