Saturday, March 17, 2012

Summery of Chapter 2 (Richards and Rogers)


THE NATURE OF APPROACHES AND METHODS IN ENGLISH TEACHING


1. Approach 
  • approach is a set of correlative assumptions(general)
  • describes the nature of a subject matter to be taught
  • approach is the level at which assumptions and beliefs about a language and language learning are specified
2. Methods
  • overall plan for the orderly presentation of language material
  • an approach is axiomatic, a method is procedure
  • method is the level at which theory is into practice and at which choices are made about the particular skills to be thought, the content to be thought , and the order in which the content will be presented
  • axiomatic =an accepted statement or proposition regarded as being self-evidently true.
  • procedure=  an established or official way of doing something
3. Techniques
  • technique is the level at which the classroom procedures are described
  • a technique is implementational , which actually takes place in a classroom
  • techniques must be consistent with a method, and therefore in harmony with an approach as well


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