1 Frank is a learner who needs more time to think the task over. 2 Mark can’t stand the time limits because he is usually overactive. 3 Mary prefers working with examples and deriving a rule from them. 4 Clara is a “deductive learner” and prefers working with grammar rules. 5. Vera has problems with her phonological development and needs special attendance to her needs
1 Teacher-centered, 2 learner-dependence, 3 focus on form and text, 4 memorization, 5 deductive teaching from rule to examples
Exploratory task 2.3
A 2 3 5 7 9; B 1 8 10; C 3 4 6;
Exploratory task 2.8
1 test-tube babies, 2 AIDS, 3 Nuclear power
Exploratory task 3.3
1A 2B 3A 4C 5A 6C 7A
Glossary
Audio-lingual method is the way to teach a foreign language through intense repetitions of language patterns
Communicative approach is a theory of teaching and learning foreign languages that recognizes the primacy of communication as the goal and the media of instruction
Communicative competence is the knowledge that is necessary for successful communication
Communicative method is a way to teach a foreign language through communication for the purpose of communication
Communicative principles are guiding rules of instruction in the framework of communicative approach
Communicative situation is a set of circumstances, in which it is necessary to use the language for communication in order to achieve the desired goal
Communicative strategies are the means and maneuvers of communication to deal with the goal, partner and circumstances
Communicative techniques are the devices to organize teaching in compliance with communicative principles
Community language teaching is a teaching approach that emphasizes the importance of students’ co-operation, support and interaction
Direct method is the way to teach a foreign language by switching over exclusively to the target language in the classroom and intense grammar structure practicing
Grammar-translation method is a way to teach a foreign language with the help of contrastive native and target grammar analysis
Humanistic approach is an education theory that recognizes the necessity to facilitate free and creative development of the personality
Information gap is a technique to give the students complementary information, which they have to pool together in the process of communication in order to fulfil the task
Interactive learning is instruction with the tasks that can’t be fulfilled by the isolated students but require co-operation
Natural approach is a way to teach a foreign language through massive exposure to the comprehensible language input in the classroom
Neuro-linguistic programming is a teaching way that combines mental imagery with the language
Non-verbal communication uses physical distance between the participants, facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, appearance and clothes, smell and perfume etc.
Oral approach is a way to teach a foreign language through oral introduction and practice of the language structures with the help of objects and pictures to create “situations”
Process-oriented teaching focuses on the motivation and involvement in the activities with the expectation of different results in learners according to their aptitude
Result-oriented teaching is the shortest way for all the learners in the classroom to achieve the same result
Silent way is a method a teaching that attempts to combine creative thinking with the minimum of language resources available to the learners (using colored rods etc)
Simulation is a technique to replicate in the classroom real world situations for the purposes of communicative language teaching
Suggestopedy is a teaching way attempting to utilize the hidden cognitive resources in students through relaxation, music and elements of suggestive therapy
Total physical response is a way of teaching that combines language rehearsals with physical activities
References and further reading
Aitchison, J. 1999. The Articulate Mammal. An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. L.,N.Y.
Asher, J. 1969. The total physical response approach to second language learning. Modern Language Journal. 53:3-17
Bachman, L. 1990. Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing. OUP
Beaver. D. Lazy Language Learning
Berns, M. 1990. Contexts of Competence. Social and Cultural Considerations in Communicative Language Teaching. N.Y.