CURRICULUM, THE APPROACHES AND METHODS, AND THE NUÑEZ AND BODEGAS
THE NATURE OF APPROACHES AND METHODS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Roles
Instructional Materials
- Present content - Practice content - Facilitate communication between learners - Enable them to practice the content without teacher’s help
Teacher
The primary source of knowledge and direction - A guide, consultant and model - Limited by imposed contents and directions on texts and lessons plans
Learner
- Types of activities carried out by learners - Learners’ control over the content - Patterns of learner groupings - Learner’s influence over others’ learning - View of learner as processor, performer, initiator and problem solver
Desing
Theory of learning:
the role of individual actors in language learning.
These have included beta-behaviorism, cognitive code learning, creative construction hypothesis learning, skills learning, interaction theory, corutructivism, sociocultural learning theory
Theory of language
MODELS: cognitive,structural,funcional, interactional,spociocultural,lexical.
Edward Antony 1963
A BRIEF HISTORY OF EARLY DEVELOPMENTS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
the grammar rules are presented and illustrated, a list of vocabulary items is presented with their translation equivalents, and translation exercises are prescribed.
Grammar- Translation Method: The goal of foreign language study is to learn a language in order to read its literature
Latin’s influence in English language teaching
grammar schools
people wished to become scholar by understanding and learning them
Latin was wide spread
History of language teaching could be traced before 500 years
THE DIFFERENT STAGES TO DESIGN A PROGRAM MATERIAL BY NUÑEZ AND BODEGAS
Organizing unit content
Determining unit content
Sequencing the unit
Identifying the course units based
on the organizing principle(s)
Determining the organizing principle(s)
(e.g.., themes, genres, tasks)
