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Flashcards by cristhaarevalo, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The Series Method | Francois Gouin was a latin teacher, and he thought that a good way to learn a language was memorizing. This method is based on memorize. |
| Berlitz | Berlitz did not invented the direct method but he popuralised it throughout the world. According to this method, grammar is not that important, because the speaker goes finding out while he learns the language. |
| Critiques of the Direct Method | In spite of its benefits, the direct method fell short from feed the necessity of educational systems. One of its biggest shortcomings is that it was hard for public schools to integrate it. |
| Structural-situational language teaching (1960's-1980's) | The new generation of linguistics tested that language was a group of structures. Grammar rules were not important as these structures. |
| The designer method of the 1970's. | The decade of the 1970's was historically important. Teaching history and research grew significantly. Several revolutionary methods were conceived. |
| Chomsky | He is an American philosopher and linguist, cognitive scientist, political commentator. The basis to Chomsky's linguistic theory is that the principles underlying the structure of language are biologically determined in the human mind and hence genetically transmitted. |
| Earl Stevick | He was an expert in language learning and teaching. Stevick was influential in developing the communicative tools to language learning. He was a practicing Christian and that may have influenced his approach to education. |
| The Silent Way | The Silent Way is characterized by its focus on discovery, creativity, problem solving and the use of accompanying materials. |
| Humanistic Approaches | An explosion of new and radical approaches to learning a language came to light in the 1970s. These approaches are often grouped under the title of Humanistic Approaches due to their method of concentration, touching on the innate ability and capacity that all learners are presumed to possess. |
| James Asher (Total Physical Response) | It's a language teaching method developed by James Asher, a professor. It is based on the coordination of language and physical movement. In TPR, instructors give commands to students in the target language, and students respond with whole-body actions. |
| Communicative Language Teaching | The communicative approach in language teaching starts from a theory of language as communication. The goal of language teaching is to develop communicative competence. |
| The natural approach | It was created by Dr. Terrell. In Natural Approach foreign language classes, students are allowed to progress naturally from one stage to the next. |
| Cooperative language teaching | It is an educational approach which allows to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. |
| Based language teaching | There are three important elements: language data, information, and practice. It seeks to engage learners with a series of tasks. |
| Task based language teaching | It focuses on the use of authentic language and on asking students to do meaningful tasks using the target language. |
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