Tutorial 8

In groups, select one teaching approach/ method/ technique and demonstrate how it is carried out (5-10 mins per group) Reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of each approach /method/technique.

GROUP MEMBERS
1. ALICE ELISKA ANAK JOHN (TESL 1) 2. NORSUHAIDAH BT KOPPELI (TESL 1) 3. SITI NOOR WAHIDA BT ABDUL RAHMAN (TESL 2) 4. MITHRAROOBINI A/P JEGANATHAN (TESL 2)

Total Physical Response (TPR)

Features of the TPR: The coordination of speech and action facilitates language learning. Grammar is taught inductively. Meaning is more important than form. Speaking is delayed until comprehension skills are established.

Features of TPR :
Effective language learning takes place in low stress environment. The role of the teacher is central. S/he chooses the appropriate commands to introduce vocabulary and structure. The learner is a listener and a performer responding to commands individually or collectively. Learning is maximized in a stress free environment.

TPR Activities Activities in the TPR method rely on action based drills in the imperative form. In fact the imperative drills are introduced to elicit physical/motor activity on the part of the learners. The use of dialogs is delayed. Typical classroom activities include: > Command drills. > Role plays on everyday situations (at the restaurant, at the movies ). > Slide presentations to provide a visual centre for teachers narration, which is followed by commands or questions. > Reading and writing can also be introduced to further consolidate grammar and vocabulary and as follow ups.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Approach/ Method/ Technique

Strengths Learning through problem solving looks attractive especially because it fosters: i. creativity, ii. discovery, iii. increase in intelligent potency and iv. long term memory. The indirect role of the teacher highlights the importance and the centrality of the learner who is responsible in figuring out and testing the hypotheses about how language works. In other words teaching is subordinated to learning.

Weaknesses The Silent Way is often criticized of being a harsh method. The learner works in isolation and communication is lacking badly in a Silent Way classroom. With minimum help on the part of the teacher, the Silent Way method may put the learning itself at stake. The material ( the rods and the charts) used in this method will certainly fail to introduce all aspects of language. Other materials will have to be introduced.

Silent Way

Approach/ Method/ Technique

Strengths

Weaknesses

Suggestopedia

Learn to trust the power of the mind.

Learn that deliberately induced states of relaxation can be valuable Reference to any at times in the classroom. comprehension and creative problem solving We can also benefit from are excluded. Language the use of music to get is not only about the students sit back and power of the mind to relax. memorize. Its about understanding, interacting and producing novel utterances in different unpredictable situations.

It is not a practical method as teachers face the problem of the availability of music and comfortable chairs.

Approach/ Method/ Technique

Strengths

Weaknesses

Total Physical Response

Represents a useful set of techniques and is compatible with other approaches to language teaching. The focus on comprehension is another appealing feature of TPR. The method is compatible with new approaches to language learning as it stresses the importance to meaning rather than form. Learning highly benefits from TPRs emphasis on stress reduction.

Deals with only the beginning stages of language learning. TPR syllabus and the utterance and the sentences within it are questionable as far as their communicative relevance is concerned.

Approach/ Method/ Technique

Strengths

Weaknesses

Communicative Language Learning

CLL is an attempt to overcome the threatening affective factors in EFL and ESL.

The counsellor/teacher can become too non directive. Students often need directions .

The counsellor allow the The method relies learners to determine type completely on inductive of conversation and to learning. analyze the language The success of the inductively. method relies largely on The student centred the translation expertise nature of the method can of the counsellor. provide extrinsic motivation and capitalize on intrinsic motivation.

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