sábado, 31 de julio de 2010

The Audio-lingual Method. This method is very good especially if you want to learn how to speak and how to stablish a conversation.
In this method you can do many activities and something that is very important is that students are motivated to participate in class, to answer questions because this is one of the purposes of this method.
I think that we learn a lot of things if we listen first and then we repeat; remember that in english we have to use our memory a lot e.g: for verbs, adjectives etc.
The best way how you can learn things is by practicing them, if not, we are going to learn how to write but no how to talk, and this is no so good.
The only bad thing in this method is; it does not pay so much attention to writen and reading skills.
Actually we continue using this method in many schools in order to make people talk.


TPR Method.This is a very interesting method that I really liked because it offers comfort and a lot of things for students. I think that this method with the suggestopedia method are very nice because education is a process that has to be dynamic but in some cases this is boring and students do not desire go to school, but if we use this method we can change that.
It is nice when a teacher enjoys what he-she is doing because it makes students do the same and participate in the class.
One thing that is difficult, is to find dynamic teachers because here in our country most of teachers are serious and they do not like to move their bodies, sing a song or play with students. The most difficult is in the university because there are a lot of adults and people that prefer being sitting down,but it is not imposible because the teacher Aida uses this method and it makes the class very dynamic.
But I think that we can not apply this method in our country because most of our children are very rebel and if teachers let them to do what they want and learn when they want, this is going to be a disaster.

Whole language approach. This method seems interesant because this can help students to love reading and writing. When you read something that is interesting for you, you enjoy it and you desire continue reading and in this method this is nice because through these things students can learn vocabulary (when they do not understant the meaning of something, they ask for it), they enjoy to talk about what they read and the teacher can take advantage of this, but this means a lot of time preparing materials for students.
The thing is that they do not pay so much attention to speaking and listening skills because this is based on reading.I think that this method could be perfect if we mix it with the audio-lingual method.

2 comentarios:

  1. Hi Vane. Well you said that we have to memorize words like verbs, adjectives, etc, but I think that when we are accostumed to use the target language we are not memorizing the rules for example; I think that we are adapting them because if you memorize something, you will forget it for sure. In the other hand if you adapt something, it will be difficult to forget it. therefore there is what we know as significant knowledge. You are right when you said that the TPR method is really nice because it makes the class be different and funny, so students fell the desire to go to classes during the next days.

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  2. Hi all,

    repetition has its place in beginning levels. In this stage learners must get familiar with language sounds, later on, they will know how to pronounce well.Right after this, they are ready to produce speech.

    That idea is not so applicable in our context. People like the comfort zone and if we let them start using the language when they feel ready, that moment will never take place.

    Whole language involves a great deal of skills although it just focuses on reading and writing but as you become more experienced, you will see the many activities you can do with your students.


    PS. VAnesa what kind of outfit is that in your photo. You impose respect.

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