Communicative Language Teaching and Audio-Lingual Method: Definition Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is an approach to the teaching of second and foreign languages that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language. It is also referred to as “communicative approach to the teaching of foreign languages” or simply the “Communicative Approach.” The Audio-Lingual Method‚ or the Army Method‚ is a style of teaching used in teaching foreign languages. It is based
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First Language can only be acquired. This acquisition is the natural process in which children subconsciously possess and develop the linguistic knowledge of the setting they live in. In contrast‚ second language learning takes place where the target language is the language spoken in the language community that differs from the mother tongue. L1 ACQUISITION: L1 acquisition is genetically triggered at the most critical stage of the child’s cognitive development. The ’engine’ of language – its
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encouraged him to develop his creative gifts. While at Harvard‚ where his father had taught before becoming a Unitarian minister‚ he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations‚ thus announcing the direction his own work would take. Cummings expressed ideas through new grammatical usage: he employed verbs as nouns‚ and other locutions as new linguistic creations (for example‚ "wherelings‚ whenlings / daughters of ifbut offspring of hopefear / sons of unless and children
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I love language because it carries beauty and thought. While the study of languages seems monotonous and meticulous to many people‚ to me it is an unfathomable ocean of fun. My initiation of English study originated from my obsession to literary aestheticism. It was a step-by-step aesthetic pilgrimage to the glorious palace of western literature when I started from ABC on‚ then read simple passages‚ later moved onto the beautiful essays and poetry and at last plunged into the classics by literary
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Using Drama Activities and Techniques for Teaching English What is Drama? Drama is a unique tool to explore and express human feeling. Drama is an essential form of behavior in all cultures‚ it is a fundamental human activity. In this site we are investigating the benefits Drama can have on child development when applied functionally within a primary classroom. Drama has the potential‚ as a diverse medium‚ to enhance cognitive‚ affective and motor development. A high degree
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Exams: How they are a Stumbling Block in English Language Teaching in Bisha Come the seasons of mid-terms and end-of-terms‚ we can see an increased volume of frustration in the faces of all the students. Thus right from the best of the students to the bunch of careless and indifferent-to-studies students‚ all of them find themselves in a state of utter chaos and confusion. Thus such standardized tests in ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING‚ especially in Bisha‚ drag their psychic situation from worse to
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My teaching approach I have taught more than 200 lessons in my teaching career at school so far. This amount of lessons showed me many reasons for using suitable teaching methods for a particular class. What is a teaching method? In general‚ the teaching method refers to pedagogy strategies which are used in giving class instructions. The methods primarily fall into two approaches: teacher-centered and student-centered. Personally‚ I like more the students-centered approach when teachers and students
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review. The search for better ways to teach languages has been underway for centuries and with some historical perspective we can analyse that each development should be assessed individually. Traditional forms of teaching and syllabus design concentrated more on the teacher playing a central role in the classroom‚ teaching also focused much more on form rather than meaning and there was a great importance given to testing and assessments. Nowadays teaching and syllabus design concentrates on both a
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of Philology Department of English and American studies TOPIC: INTERACTIVE METHODS OF TEACHING ENGLISH MASTER’S THESIS GRADUATED STUDENT: Костадинка Иванова Господинова Faculty number 0603598075 Plovdiv 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.Introduction 2.Theoretical part – Interactive methods of teaching English 2.1 Interactive audio-visual teaching method 2.2 Brainstorming method 2.3 Debate method 2.4 Think-Pair-Share method 2.5 Jigsaw reading method 3.Practical part
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role of the English language in the world nowadays‚ we should question what kind of teaching would be most appropriate to the learning of English as an International Language. McKay (2002:12)‚ based on the ideas of Smith (1976)‚ summarizes some important aspects that should be considered to the teaching of an international language. 1) As an international language‚ English is used both in a global sense for international communication between countries and in a local sense as a language of wider communication
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