This chapter examines ten different approaches or methods, and identifies the choices offered by each of these ten. The approaches or methods are divided into:
Traditional language teaching
Grammar Translation Method
Direct Method
Audiolingual Method
Communicative language teaching
Communicative Approach
Total Physical Response
Natural Approach
Competency-Based Approach
Innovative language teaching
Silent Way
Community Language Learning
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In this chapter the comments on each of the ten approaches or methods are divided into three
parts. First, comes the section on background. This section gives a short history of each method
and will give you an idea of the developments in English language teaching over the past fifty
years. Second, the section on distinguishing features highlights the special features of each
method and approach. Third, the section on the impact on your classroom and your teaching
concentrates on ideas in each method which may be helpful to you. This section owes much to
conversations with TEFL Volunteers like yourself. These Volunteers, having faced initial
hesitations about which method to use, have suggested the positive and practical ways in which
you can judge the benefits and impact different methods will have on your English lessons.
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