1. language and methods
- 1. English Language Teaching Tips Tutor: Amin S. Houshmand a.sabzikar@iaurmia.ac.ir
- 2. Who are the learners? Answer these questions about your second language experience. Then work in groups and compare your answers. Taken from Thornbury, S. & Watkins, P. (2007), The CELTA Course, Cambridge: CUP
- 3. Who are the learners? 1. What was the language that you learned? Did you have choice of a language? Why did you choose that particular language? 2. What was your purpose for learning? Was it, for example, for travel or business, or simply curiosity? Or did you have no real purpose? 3. Did you teach yourself, have a private teacher, go to classes or study online? Or did you simply pick it up by using it? 4. If you attended classes, what were your expectations? Were they met? 5. How motivated were you? What factors either raised or lowered your motivation? 6. What level of proficiency did you hope to achieve? Did you achieve it? 7. All in all, were you satisfied with the experience? If not, what would you have done differently? Taken from Thornbury, S. & Watkins, P. (2007), The CELTA Course, Cambridge: CUP
- 4. What is Language? 'Language is a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length, and constructed out of a finite set of elements'. Chomsky, Syntactic Structures (1957: 13) Taken from Chomsky, N. (1957), Syntactic Structure
- 5. Language is …. 1.Forming habits (stimulus/response) 2.Communication 3.Grammar 4.Vocabulary Taken from Harmer, J. (2012), The Practice of English Language Teaching, Pearson
- 6. Popular methodology Discuss with your partner and tell a particular description for each. – Approach – Method – Procedure – Technique Taken from Harmer, J. (2012), The Practice of English Language Teaching, Pearson
- 7. Approach An approach describes how language is used and its constituent parts interlock. An approach also describes how people acquire their knowledge of the language and about conditions which will promote successful language learning. Taken from Harmer, J. (2012), The Practice of English Language Teaching, Pearson
- 8. Method A method is the practical classroom realisation of an approach. Taken from Harmer, J. (2012), The Practice of English Language Teaching, Pearson
- 9. Procedure A procedure is an ordered sequence of techniques. It is a sequence which can be described in terms such as First you do this, then you do that … . Smaller than a method, it is bigger than a technique. Taken from Harmer, J. (2012), The Practice of English Language Teaching, Pearson
- 10. Technique For example: Finger Technique Taken from Harmer, J. (2012), The Practice of English Language Teaching, Pearson
- 11. Three and a half method • Grammar-translation • The direct method • Audiolingualism • Oral-situational approach Taken from Harmer, J. (2012), The Practice of English Language Teaching, Pearson
- 12. CLT Communicative Language Teaching or the communicative approach as it was originally called. 1. Task-based learning (TBL) 2. Teaching unplugged Taken from Harmer, J. (2012), The Practice of English Language Teaching, Pearson
- 13. To be continued … Tutor: Amin S. Houshmand a.sabzikar@iaurmia.ac.ir Mobile: +98 (0) 914 388 5094