1- It has been sais that the Grammar- Translation Mtehod teachesabout the target language, but not how to use it. Explain the differences in your own words.
The Grammar - Translation Method teachs you how to translate (grammar, just language learning) english but not how to use it in a normal conversation in youyr life.
With this method you only lear grammar and trasnlation.
The important thing is to develop comunicative competence.
2-In the Grammar - Translation Method grammar is treated deductively; in the Direct Method, grammar is treated inductively. Can yo explain
the difference between deductive and inductive tratments of grammar?
In the inductive you start using particular set of facts or ideas and you finish in a general principe
(with the input that you get you learn the grammar).
And in the deductive you start in a general principle and you finish with particular ideas.
3-Which of the following techniques follows from the principes of the Audio -Lingual Method, and which ones don´t? Explain the reasons for your answer.
a. The teacher asks beginning level students to write a composition about the system of transportation in their home countries. If they need a vocabulary word that they don´t know, they are told to look in a bilingual dictionary for a translation.
No. It could be connected to Grammar Translation Method.
b.Towards the end of the third week of the course, the teacher gives students a reading passage. The teacher asks the students to read the passage to answer certain questions based upon on it. The passage contains words and structures introduced during the first three weeks of the course.
Not at all. One part yes, the teacher gives something to read that contains words and structures introduced during the three first weeks of course.
c. The teacher tells the students that they must add an `s´ to third person singular verbs in the present tense in English. She then gives the students a list of verbs and aks them to change the verbs into the third person singular tense form.
No. In the Audio-Lingual Method you don´t say you have to use the `s´ for the third person singula, you just use it.
4-Asher believes that foreing language insturction can and should be moddelled on native language acquisition. What are soma characteristics of TPR that are similar to the way children acquire their native language?
- At the beginning children do not day anything they just recieve input and learn the commands.
- In general they imitated a lot, it is really important.
- To have an enviroment where children feel comfortable.
5- A lot of target language sturctures and vocabulary can be taught through the imperative. Plan part of a TPR lesson in which the present continuous tense, or another structure in targe language, is introduced.
For example, we are going to teach the present continouos.
Teacher says: everyone touch something blue, children have to touch something blue.
Teacher says: everyone touch something green, children have to touch something green.
