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Techniques and Principles” In Language Teaching. Content-based, \J Task-based, and Participatory Approaches 1) In your own words describe the difference between the approach to teaching communication taken in the previous chapter and this one. It is said that when you communicate you are teaching but it really is not like that. To focus on teaching is to dedicate oneself to the specific subject, which can be proven to be applied and learned, whereas communication is to notify or share information that interests the person who is giving the message. 2) Why do you think that content-based instruction has been called 'a method with many faces'? (Snow  1991). It can be called that because of the way the teacher applies the method, since not all of us have the ability to call the attention of students in classes as we want. On the other hand there will be methods that we can apply more than others in classes. 3) Willis (1996) proposes the following sequenc...

Techniques and Principles” In Language Teaching Communicative Language Teaching 1)Explain in your own words Morrow's three features of communication: information gap, choice, and feedback. Choose one of the activities in the lesson we observed and say whether or not these three features are present. In the teaching of Communicative Language 127 Observations the teacher gives each group a task to perform the students must make a paper, They should imagine that they are all employees of the same company. The teacher moves from the group to group offering advice and answering questions. Students suggest establishing a prediction to a colleague. Errors are tolerated and viewed as natural result of the development of communication skills. We can see reflected in this teaching the information the choice of the game but not the feedback because when the student made the mistake he did not correct it because he saw it normal and not necessary. 2)Why do we ...

Techniques and Principles” In Language Teaching Total Physical Response 1)Asher believes that foreign language instruction can and should be modeled on native language acquisition. What are some characteristics of his method that are similar to the way children acquire their native language? It is believed that children learn by movements. To define the general characteristics of the TPR, three aspects must be taken into account: linguistic theory, pedagogical theory and sociolinguistic theory. That only after assimilation and verification can be put into operation. 2)One of the principles of TPR is that when student anxiety is low, language learning is enhanced. How does this method lower student anxiety? When we see an aerobics class it is not the same as when we participate in it. The adrenaline begins to flow throughout our body and we begin to activate our mind searching for the best response. Likewise it is this method when we make the class an ...

Techniques and Principles” In Language Teaching Community Language Learning 1)Curran says there are six elements of nondefensive learning: security, aggression, attention, reflection, retention, and discrimination. Some of the ways these were manifest in our lesson were pointed out in answer to questions 3 and 5. Can you find any other examples of these in the class we observed? Teachers who use the Community Method of Language Learning want their students to learn to use the target language in a communicative way. In addition, they want their students to learn about their own learning, to assume a growing responsibility for it and to learn to learn from each other. All these objectives can be achieved in a non-defensive way as a teacher and the student deals with whole people, valuing both thoughts and feelings. 2)Curran claims learners pass through five stages of learning as they go from being a beginning language learner to an advanced language 106 Comm...

Techniques and Principles”                                      In Language Teaching Desuggestopedia 1) What are some of the ways that direct positive suggestions were present in the lesson? Indirect positive suggestions? When the teacher begins his class using sounds for any type of audio and objects that identify the topic to be addressed in the classes, the attention of the students will be activated in a positive way and when performing the activity these students will be focused in a positive and spontaneous way. to the activity. 2) How are the arts integrated into the lesson we observed? 8 Appty what you have understood about  Desuggestopedia. It is a different method of working in classes where the student can identify that he / she can be in a certain environment becau...

Techniques and Principles”                                             In Language Teaching The Silent Way . 1) There is many reasons for the teacher's silence in the Silent Way. Some of these have been stated explicitly in this chapter; others have been implied. Can you state the reasons? With this method we can analyze that the teacher looks with signs and gestures towards the blackboard with different contents and pointing to each one of them we can distinguish and identify the subject and teaching that he wants us to learn and it does not hurt to say that he gets the result when the students manage to give the answer to their classmates. 2) What does the phrase, 'Teaching is subordinated to learning,' mean? When something is taught anything that is automatically activates the learning of what was said above all in new words that leads us to inves...

Techniques and Principles” In Language Teaching The Audio-Lingual Method 1 Which of the following techniques follows from the principles of the Audio-Lingual Method, and which ones don't? Explain the reasons for your answer. a) The teacher asks beginning-level students to write a composition about the system of transportation in their home countries. If they need a vocabulary word that they don't know, chey are told to look in a bilingual dictionary for a translation. b) Toward the end of the third week of the course, the teacher gives students a reading passage. The teacher asks the students to read the passage and to answer certain questions based upon it. The passage contains words and structures introduced during the first threeweeks of the course. c) The teacher tells the students that they must add an V to third person singular verbs in the present tense in English. She then gives the students a list of verbs and asks them to change the verbs into ...