1. THE NATURAL APPROACH
William E. Yugsán
MAY 12, 2015

2. One of the communicative approaches to language teaching
Tracy Terrell and Stephen Krashen (1983)
The approach focuses on:
comprehensible input
meaningful communication
educators need to build in variety the moment they plan their lessons and class activities and poetry is …
a relaxed classroom atmosphere
There is a gradual progression from "Yes/No" and simple display questions, to more complex and open questions.

3. THE NATURAL APPROACH IN THE CLASSROOM
(1) Comprehension (preproduction)
(2) Early Production
(3) Speech Emergence
STAGE I COMPREHENSION
Teach students to recognize the meaning in words used in meaningful contexts
Guess at the meaning of phrases without knowing all of the words and structures
the diversity of things to be conveyed using poetry also shows the magnitude of its resources

4. A. ALWAYS USE VISUAL AIDS (pictures, realia, gestures).
STAGE I COMPREHENSION
A. ALWAYS USE VISUAL AIDS (pictures, realia, gestures).
B. MODIFY YOUR SPEECH
C. DO NOT FORCE PRODUCTION.
“silent period”
D. FOCUS ATTENTION ON KEY VOCABULARY.

7. Stage 2 EARLY SPEECH a. open dialogues b. guided interviews
Non-threatening environments
Students produce voluntarily
a. open dialogues
b. guided interviews
c. open-ended sentences
d. charts, tables, graphs
e. newspaper ads

10. Stage 3 SPEECH EMERGENCE
speech production will normally improve in both quantity and quality
students produce longer, more complex and they use a wider range of vocabulary.
the number of errors will slowly decrease.
a. preference ranking
b. games of all sorts
c. problem-solving using charts, tables graphs, maps
d. advertisements and signs
e. group discussion
f. skits (finger plays, flannel boards, puppets)
g. music, radio, television, film strips, slides
h. writing exercises (especially Language Experience Approach)
i. reading
j. culture