Hi people!
You have already noticed that there are methods that share certain characteristics, and I have found three of them that are similar. The natural approach, the audio lingual method and the situational language teaching are the ones that share the principle that language is learned for communicative purposes. The words natural approach leads me to think about the natural way in which we all have learned a language (Spanish). We learn from our parents, friends and different people, without noticing it. The natural approach concerns about rehearsing listening skills which is fundamental because we learn by listening, we need to develop it so that we can communicate with the others.
One of the points I consider is a disadvantage is that the students are not forced to speak English from the beginning; however, I consider that it must be the contrary because students should get involved with the language since the very beginning.
Henry,
ResponderEliminarthere´s a debate whether to use the target language all the time with beginners or alternate the students´s mother tongue and the foreign language since people consider their level is very low and they are not able to understand and set a conversation in the target language. This is a very common excuse in our English courses. Sometimes teachers give up and start using a lot of Spanish and in a certain moment there is an abuse of its use.
What do you think about this fact?
hi henry!
ResponderEliminarI think you`re right when you say that students should start using the target language since the beginning so that they get involved with the language they want to learn.