Morpho-Comprehensive Report
Republic of the Philippines
Pangasinan State University
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Urdaneta City
Course Code: CAE 214
Course Title: Teaching English as a Second Language
Professor: DR. MERLITA Q. SANTOS
Lecture Series No. _____
I. WHAT IS THE LECTURE ALL ABOUT? The lecture is about the historical and grammar-based approaches to teaching English as a second language. Historical approaches included are sink or swim and ESL Pull-out while grammar-based approaches includes grammar-translation, audiolingualism and situational language teaching. Also included is the definition of important terms like approach, method, strategy, and technique.
II. WHAT CAN YOU GAIN FROM THE LECTURE? After the lecture and class discussion, you are expected to be able to: a. Differentiate approach, method, strategy, and technique; b. Identify the underlying principle between the historical approaches and the grammar-based approaches; c. Justify the objections to grammar-based approaches; and d. Evaluate the significance of grammar-based approaches in modern instruction.
III. WHAT ARE THE CONTENTS OF THE LECTURE?
INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACHES
Defining Approaches, Strategies, Methods, and Techniques…
Before proceeding to the main topic, it is very important to define the important terms first. These are approach, method, strategy and technique.
Approach, as shown in the diagram encompasses the whole orientation of teaching. It is the broadest of the three, making technique the most specific, and the method found in between approach and technique. It is an enlightened viewpoint toward teaching providing philosophy to the whole process of instruction. It gives the overall wisdom, it provides direction, and sets expectations to the entire spectrum of the teaching process. Approach sets the general rule or general principle to make learning possible Method is an organized, orderly, systematic, and
Pangasinan State University
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Urdaneta City
Course Code: CAE 214
Course Title: Teaching English as a Second Language
Professor: DR. MERLITA Q. SANTOS
Lecture Series No. _____
I. WHAT IS THE LECTURE ALL ABOUT? The lecture is about the historical and grammar-based approaches to teaching English as a second language. Historical approaches included are sink or swim and ESL Pull-out while grammar-based approaches includes grammar-translation, audiolingualism and situational language teaching. Also included is the definition of important terms like approach, method, strategy, and technique.
II. WHAT CAN YOU GAIN FROM THE LECTURE? After the lecture and class discussion, you are expected to be able to: a. Differentiate approach, method, strategy, and technique; b. Identify the underlying principle between the historical approaches and the grammar-based approaches; c. Justify the objections to grammar-based approaches; and d. Evaluate the significance of grammar-based approaches in modern instruction.
III. WHAT ARE THE CONTENTS OF THE LECTURE?
INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACHES
Defining Approaches, Strategies, Methods, and Techniques…
Before proceeding to the main topic, it is very important to define the important terms first. These are approach, method, strategy and technique.
Approach, as shown in the diagram encompasses the whole orientation of teaching. It is the broadest of the three, making technique the most specific, and the method found in between approach and technique. It is an enlightened viewpoint toward teaching providing philosophy to the whole process of instruction. It gives the overall wisdom, it provides direction, and sets expectations to the entire spectrum of the teaching process. Approach sets the general rule or general principle to make learning possible Method is an organized, orderly, systematic, and
References: The “How” Dimensions of Teaching (Garcia, 1989)