Communicative language teaching

there are examples can be found that effective teaching of Asian teachers without applying Western teaching standards (Holiday, 1994). Phillipson (1992) made a comparison of native and non-native teachers of English and he pointed out that native-speaking teacher is not better than none-native speaker naturally. He furthered the study and worked with Pennycook (1994) to rebut the saying that Western teaching methods is universal and can be applied to any settings. They found that the ‘advanced’ teaching pedagogy in Western countries causes problems of ethics. This kind of English language teaching pedagogy neglect the cultural background of learners and teachers. It is true that there are some disadvantages of Asian teaching pedagogy, but one…

MIDTERM TEST The topic: The communicative language teaching The communicative approach is a language teaching method which aims applying the communicative competence and acknowledging the interdependence of language and communication to look at so far is for students communicating in the target language. Let’s look at some points: The characteristics of the teaching and learning process, the nature of student-teacher and student-student interaction, the areas of language and skills are…

Misconceptions and Misunderstandings of Communicative Language Teaching Muhammed Resul AYGÜN English Language Teaching, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey Abstract Although Communicative Language Teaching is accepted by many English teachers in many countries as one of the most effective approach in English language teaching, it is a new method in Turkey not known by all teachers,researchers and linguiststhere and there are still a number of misunderstandings about it The aim of this article…

Epistemology and Contemporary Methodologies in English teaching Characterized by frequent change and innovation, the foundation of contemporary language teaching was developed during the early part of the twentieth century, as applied linguists as others pursued to build principles and procedures for the design of teaching methods and materials (RICHARDS; RODGERS, 2014, p. 1). The aim of the present text is to walk through the changes in language teaching through the methodologies, giving…

discovered at least one method where the role of the teacher is to step aside and allow students to do the learning. Interestingly, this method (Silent Way) is deeply rooted in structuralist view of language. On the other hand, in many classes throughout our program, we discussed the role that the teacher may have under Sociocultural understanding of language acquisition. Please, compare the two takes on the teacher’s role in the classroom. How would you explain any similarities and differences…

When I was first presented this task of interviewing another educator, I was apprehensive because the concepts that are being addressed in the prompts are so important to a teacher’s personal teaching philosophy. These prompts almost appeared to be questions that one might hear at a job interview for a teaching position. I did not at first want to subject a colleague to these questions, as they require so much deeper though and inquiry from the teacher. That is why I first answered the questions…

was able to learn from my peers and things that went well and what could be changed in their lesson. It was less pressure to do them with our classmates first than it will be to teach it in a class full of 4th and 5th grade students. For my lesson, I choose to do the topic of immigration because that is what they are going to be learning about next in social studies. This is the topic I did for my text set in this class. I was about to use some of the main questions and go from there. I also…

Act was signed into law in 2002, many people have been concern about children’s learning and academic achievement, especially parents and educators. In fact, teachers are always trapped in “teaching dilemmas” because each teaching method has different levels of pros and cons for students. Wiggins and McTighe (2005) suggested that for all of the choices that teachers have during a day of instruction, many fit into the category of a “dilemma” where there is no easy or perfect solution to pick. It…

ensure that key aspects of personalised learning take place. A key aspect of personalised learning is high quality teaching and learning in Foreign Languages such as Spanish. One strategy is ‘direct teaching’ (DfES 2007, Moore 2009; Muijs and Reynolds 2011) which can be used to implement high quality teaching and learning. Other strategies suggested by the DfES (2007) are social, cognitive teaching and learning models. However, Muijs and Reynolds (2011) state that other strategies include…

Freire starts the base for his essay around the student-teacher relationship, and the dysfunction within. He is very right in saying that the process of teaching is akin to the banking system. This often leads to a poor relationship between the pupil and the almighty instructor. However, is this relationship and the teaching method a package deal? The current approach to teaching is the banking concept, which can lead to an oppressive environment, which is caused by the poor student-teacher…