Teaching Methods

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Contained within this chapter is a summary of the eight established ways to teach within the English world. An actual lesson may employ a combination of any of the eight methods – with an emphasis on flexibility and a student-focused approach. This caters to the student as our lessons always need to be student centered, not teacher centered.

As explained above, there is not a single best way to deliver a lesson to your students. Your ESL classroom should be student focused and adaptive to change, therefore your teaching methods should also be adaptive and dynamic. Therefore, this chapter is designed in order to best prepare you to deliver a lesson and achieve the desired objective.

The Grammar Translation approach was one of the first adapted when teaching a foreign language. The general concept was that the student needed to convert the second language into their first, in order to understand and comprehend the language. The student, however, does not naturally speak the second language. All other approaches are in some way or another, a derivative of this first approach.

The two most appropriate of the eight approaches in an ESL classroom are the Communicative and Direct. These two approaches utilize the second language in a naturally free flowing manner. Firstly, the Communicative Approach was specifically designed by educators in order to combat the inefficiencies with the Audio-Lingual and Grammar-translation approaches. The communicative approach applies functional and natural use of the language and allows the students to express their knowledge of the second language freely.

Secondly, The Direct Method seeks to immerse the learner in the same manner in which the first language was learnt. Realia is heavily relied on and only English is spoken in the classroom. Grammar is taught intensively and students are encouraged to correct their own mistakes.

Real authentic language is used and communication is the main goal for any TEFL classroom as our students do not experience the language in their daily lives. We bring everyday real language into the classroom in a fun and interesting way to engage the students and allow them to learn through discovery.

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    09:00 am - 10:30 am

Assessment Category: Learner & Teacher Motivation

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