English Language Teaching: History, Approaches and Methods

Practice Activities

Each of the 30 units that the syllabus programme consists of includes practice activities. See the “Practice activities” link.

Block I. Introduction

• Unit 1.1. The rationale behind this course. Pratice Activities Unit 1.1
• Unit 1.2. The “method” concept in Language Teaching. Practice Activities Unit 1.2
• Unit 1.3. A general overview of the two major trends in Language Teaching: Grammatical and conversational currents. Practice Activities Unit 1.3

Block II. Back to the past (1)

• Unit 2.1. The beginnings: Language Teaching before the Renaissance. Practice Activities Unit 2.1
• Unit 2.2. Language Teaching from the Renaissance until the 18^th century. Practice Activities Unit 2.2

Block III. Back to the past (2). The 19^th century: “The century of methods”

• Sub-block 3.1. The Grammar-Translation Method (G-T). Ahn’s and Ollendorff’s Practical Method. Practice Activities Sub-block 3.1
• Sub-block 3.2. The Natural Approach from the 19^th century:
  • Unit 3.2.1. Introduction. Practice Activities Unit 3.2.1
  • Unit 3.2.2. Individual pre-reformers. Practice Activities Unit 3.2.2
  • Unit 3.2.3. The Reform Movement. Practice Activities Unit 3.2.3
  • Unit 3.2.4. The Direct Method. Practice Activities Unit 3.2.4

Block IV. The past meets the present: Language teaching methods in the 20^th and 21^st centuries

• Sub-block 4.1.Structurally based methods
  • Unit 4.1.1. The Audio-Lingual Method (ALM). Practice Activities Unit 4.1.1
  • Unit 4.1.2. The Situational Language Teaching Method (SLT). Practice Activities Unit 4.1.2
  • Unit 4.1.3. The Audio-Visual Structuro-Global Method (AVSG). Practice Activities Unit 4.1.3

• Sub-block 4.2. Humanistic and psychologically-rooted methods
  • Unit 4.2.1. Introduction. Practice Activities Unit 4.2.1
  • Unit 4.2.2. Total Physical Response (TPR). Practice Activities Unit 4.2.2
  • Unit 4.2.3. The Silent Way. Practice Activities Unit 4.2.3
  • Unit 4.2.4. Suggestopedia. Practice Activities Unit 4.2.4
  • Unit 4.2.5. Community Language Learning (CL). Practice Activities Unit 4.2.5
• Sub-block 4.3. Communicative Approaches
  • Unit 4.3.1. The Threshold Level and Notional-Functional Syllabuses (N-F Syllabuses). Practice Activities Unit 4.3.1
  • Unit 4.3.2. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). Practice Activities Unit 4.3.2
  • Unit 4.3.3. The Natural Approach (Krashen and Terrell). Practice Activities Unit 4.3.3
  • Unit 4.3.4. Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT). Practice Activities Unit 4.3.4
  • Unit 4.3.5. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Practice Activities Unit 4.3.5
  • Unit 4.3.6. Cooperative Language Learning (CLL). Practice Activities Unit 4.3.6
• Sub-block 4.4. Other alternative approaches
  • Unit 4.4.1. The Lexical Approach. Practice Activities Unit 4.4.1
  • Unit 4.4.2. Multiple Intelligences (MI). Practice Activities Unit 4.4.2
• Sub-block 4.5. Towards an integrative method. Practice Activities Sub-block 4.5
• Sub-block 4.6. The Post-method era. Practice Activities Sub-block 4.6

Wrap-up Practice Activities Blocks 3-4

Block V. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment.

• Practice Activities Block V

Block VI. Four basic factors in language teaching methods: cognitive, affective, cultural parameters and activity sequencing.

• Practice Activities Block VI