APROACH VIEW OF VIEW LANGUAGE CLASSROOM PRACTICES

LANGUAGE LEARNING Teacher Ss Activities Syllabus

PRESENTATIO Grammatical See new language in a T inputs No Presentation Grammatical
N, PRACTICE structures and context (show meaning) language and mistakes stage (situational structures or
AND functions are the Practice in controlled and guides ss during presentation and functions
PRODUCTION most important guided conditions T select what the miming)-(drills)
(PPP) Use in free conditions or how to practice practice stage
(less language support) learn stage. -productive
Activities: stage(information
gap activities,
role plays)
LEXICAL Vocabulary: Learning chunks. Ask ss to do Authetic Notice chunks Lexis
APPROACH individual word Chunks need to be activities written (noting them
and chunks noticed. about using and down, underlining
(collocations, chunks spoken chunks)
idioms, fixed texts
expressions)
FUNCTIONAL Functions See new language in a PPP activities Functions are
APPROACH context (show meaning) graded
Practice in controlled and according
guided conditions frequency of
Use in free conditions use and
(less language support) communicativ
e needs.
COMMUNICATI Communication Learning by interaction Sets Become Pair and group Tasks,
VE Meaning is Communicating meaning communicativ active work enable functions and
APPROACHES communicated is important. e activities users interaction topic reas on
though functions, Fluency is more important Focus on ss
grammar, tan accuracy fluency. communicativ
 vocabulary, Use authentic e needs
discourse and material (real
skills. communicatio
n)
Provides
correction
after fluency
activities.
Input
language
when needed

GRAMMAR Grammatical Learning by analysing Presents Apply Working out Grammatical

TRANSLATION rules and applying grammatical grammatical grammati language accuracy
rules rules cal rules means by
in applying rules.
exercises Translating texts
Learning or sentences
list of from L1 to L2 or
words by L2 to L1
heart

TOTAL Grammatical Comprehension comes Do not force SS are Learning by doing Grammatical
PHYSICAL structures and before production ss to produce exposed things physically structures and
RESPONSE vocabulary language to vocabulary
(TPR) before language involved in
listening. They giving and
Gives ss need a following
intructions: silent instructions
 opend the period Young learners
door (hear and beginners
languag
e)
Ss should
be
relaxed
Ss carry
out
physically
the
instructio
n
After the
silent
period
and at
more
advance
stages ss
give
another
instructio
ns
GUIDED Patterns of Learning by working out Gives ss Ss should
DISCOVERY meaning and use patterns and rules of examples of a work out
This aproach is languages discoveried by target or
used with PPP, the learner. language discovery
TBL, FA T gives the rules after ss area. (a text rules of
 have worked them out or with examples the
ss complete gapped of the past language.
rules. tense; an
audio with
different
patterns of
sentence
stress)

CONTENT Grammatical, Learning by interesting Present Focuses on

BASED lexical, functional topics to increase the language grammar,
LEARNING reas and skills. knowledge of the world. throught topic lexis,
Used in primary related to functions or
and secondary school skills
schools subjects or
learning about
the school
STRUCTURAL Language is a Learning by controlled Oral skills are Practice of
APPROACH system of practice of simpler learnt before structures in
structures used to structures to more written skills controlled
communicate complicated ones. conditions.
meaning Mistakes should be
avoided
TASK-BASED Language is a Language is learnt by T gives a Focused on
LEARNING TBL tool for using it series of grammar,
communicating problema- vocabulary and
meaning throught solving tasks. pronunciation
use of functions, To solve them before or after
vocabulary, ss need to the task is
 structures, communicate. completed.
discourse
CONTENT Language (skills, Learning by acquisition The school Based round
AND discourse, lexis, and throught use of the subject is taught learning about
LANGUAGE grammar, language. in the L2 (L3/L4) the subject
INTEGRATED functions) serves Use of the language to Lessons focus on matter and
LEARNING to communicate learn something else. For the subject rather cognitive
CLIL meaning. example; learn maths than on (thinking
throught english. language. and
learning)
skills related
to a school
subject
ECLECTIC Mix and match of
APROACH approaches

Tomado de TKT Cambridge Coursebook.