Teaching Models

What teaching models have influenced current teaching practice?

Grammar - translation
This was probably the most commonly used way of learning languages for hundreds of years -and it is still practised in many situations.
-Students learn how the foreign language is constructed
-Help to acquire the language
-Stop the students from getting the kind of natural language.
-Most of the learners translate in their heads at various stages.

Audio - lingualism:
-Is based on beahviourist theories of learning.
-This theories suggested that much learning is the result of habit information through conditioning.
-Audio-lingual classes concentrated on long repetition - drill stages
-Students acquire good language habits.
-Methodologists were concerned that in adio - lingualism students were not exposed to real o realistic language

Task-based learning
-Emphasis on the task rather than the language
-Students complete task
-When students complete the task, teachers read their efforts and do some language / writing study to help them to do better next time

Communicative Language Teaching
-Language is not just bits of grammar, it also involves language functions such as inviting, agreeing, and disagreeing, suggestung, etc. which students should learn how to use.
-Students need to be aware of the need for appropriacy when talking and writing to people in terms of kind if language they use (formal, informal)
-Language will take care of itself if students get enough exposure to it and opportunities for its use.
-students can communicate