LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SCIENCES BA IN SPANISH, ENGLISH, AND FRENCH - FOREIGN

LANGUAGE DIDACTICS
ELT METHODS AND APPROACHES
NAMES: JULIE ALEJANDRA DIAZ DIAZ CODES: 26162092
INGRID BENDEK 26162054

METHOD THEORY DESIGN PROCEDURE

Total Physical ➔ It attends to teach language through physical ➔ Its objective is to teach oral ➔ Imperative drills.
Response activity. proficiency at a beginning level. ➔ Conversational dialogues.
(TPR ) ➔ It was developed to reduce stress people feel ➔ The syllabus is sentence based, ➔ Role-plays are centered on
when studying a foreign language. grammar is taught inductively, everyday situations.
➔ It is linked to the “Trace theory” of memory in the movement of the body is a ➔ Slide presentations.
psychology. powerful mediator for the
understanding.
➔ It has a fixed number between
12 and 36 lexical items to be
introduced at a time.

Communicative ➔ Language is a tool for communication and ➔ The objectives are linked to the ➔ All four language skills (reading,
Language students learn language by using it to learning outcomes described in writing, speaking and listening)
Teaching (CLT) communicate. the Common European are emphasized in
➔ Communicative competence, the goal of Framework of Reference. communicative classrooms.
language teaching. ➔ The syllabus: There are many ➔ An additional characteristic of
➔ It involves real communication. versions proposed, but we have many communicative
to keep in mind the purposes, classrooms is their emphasis on
the setting, the communicative culture.
events, the language functions, ➔ Make real communication the
the notions, grammatical and focus of language learning.
lexical contents, etc.

Content-Based ➔ People learn using language as a mean of ➔ Language is second to learning ➔ The thematic content provides
Instruction (CBI) acquiring information. the content. the materials around which
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LANGUAGE DIDACTICS
ELT METHODS AND APPROACHES
➔ Academic subject matter is taught in a ➔ The syllabus comes from
second or foreign language. content.
➔ The goals and objectives will
depend on whether mastery of
content through a second
language or mastery of
language through content.
Competency- ➔ It focuses on what learners should be able to ➔ The course is developed as a ➔ Activities are communicative
Based Language do with language. response to perceived learners’
Teaching ➔ Outcomes-based approaches to language specific goals and needs.
teaching. ➔ The syllabus consists of a
➔ It focuses on life skills. description of learning
outcomes in terms of
competencies.
➔ Competencies consist of a
description of the essential
skills, knowledge, attitudes and
behaviors required for effective
performance of a real-world
task.
Task- Based ➔ It seeks to engage students in interactionally ➔ The syllabus represents a
Language language use by having to perform a series particular realization of CLT.
teaching of tasks. ➔ Teachers monitor and students
are risk-takers.
listening, speaking, reading, and
writing activities are based.
➔ Discourse organization. Using
group work and team building.
➔ Vary the instruction.
➔ Defining background knowledge
and language skills.
based, may be related to any
domain in life and should be
authentic.
➔ Continuous assessment.
➔ Classroom activities vary
somewhat among different task-
based programs, depending
partly on whether they focus on
pedagogic or real-life/target
tasks.
➔ There are three stages: Pre-
task. Task Cycle. Language
Focus.