What I liked from my method is that the teachers do not use their mother tongue because this method is based in the target language; moreover, it is not based in grammar. It is based in communication, and the students should not use their native language. I liked the teacher's roles because the teacher has the responsibility to create a classroom atmosphere where the students can develope high motivation, self-confidence and low axiety. this method has the main purpose that people learn in natural way; in other words, in unconscious way where they can learn and enjoy the class at the same time.
What I did not like from my method.
What I did not like from my method is that natural approach is for begginers, and it is designed to help them become intermediates. From my point of view, this method has good activities that they can help us to learn many things; moreover, I did not like that learners do not learn anything or almost anything about grammar, they just learn how to commuicate with other people. It is good; however, the students need to know when they are committing grammatical errors, and they also need to know how to correct them.
What I understood from the others methods.
What I understood from Community Language Learning method is that the teacher and student work to develop what aspects of la language they would like to learn together. It makes the classes more interesting because the students are learning things that they want to learn; moreover, the teacher acts as a counsellor and a paraphraser, while the learners act as a collaborator. However, this method is something difficult to understand because the teacher plays a secondary rol in the class.
What I understood from Task Based is that this method focuses on the use of authentic language on asking students to do meaningful task using the target language. Moreover I learnt that the teacher's role is to prepare the task which will be expose in the class for example, the teacher has to select the task; then the students have to do that task in pairs or in small groups. Finally, if the students have doubts, they can ask to the teacher to reinforce.
I like this method because the students can learn how to speak another language, and comunicate with other people orally. However, a thing that I do not really like from this method is that the emphasis is on communication, and the teacher do not give much importance to grammar, and explicit correction of student errors, maybe because in this method the objective is the development of communication skills.
ResponderEliminarI agree with you Doug this method is very interesting it help people to understand the target language in a natural way, the way that we were told our mother tongue. I guess that you can learn grammar after this method.
ResponderEliminarThe Natural Approach Method is very interesting and very natural, sorry for the dedundancy.
ResponderEliminarAs we continue our learning process our knowledge becomes greater and our communicative skills develop constantly, that's the greatness of the Natural Approach Method
This method is very helpful to improve our understanding of the target language. As the lexical approach method, this method is based in lexical rather than grammar skills.
ResponderEliminarI like this method because the main purpose is that people learn in natural way, the teacher not force the students to speak if they are not ready. This method focuses on teaching communicative abilities.
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