The natural order of skills
- The language skills are taught in the order of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Vocabulary is strictly limited and learned in context
7. Dealing with Errors
- Students are prevent from making errors – errors should be corrected immediately to prevent from the formation of ‘bad habit’
- Students should ‘overlearn’ –
error and nearly uniform intonation and pronunciation. However, when they are learning a foreign language, all of those natural aids disappeared. And words become really foreign and abstract after they leave classes. And even worse, their teacher might have a bad accent or even wrong pronunciation. Some may adduce children in Luxembourg as evidence, but the point is that almost all parents in tha
NO translation between L1 and L2
Lots of oral interaction
Spontaneous use of the language
Little analysis of grammar rules
The bus stop is ___ _____ ___ Marriott Hotel.
Bruegger’s Bagle is _____ ___GAP store.
Turn left at the first ______________.
_____ ____ the directions to get there.
You should ____ ____ the bus at Marriott Hotel.
6. T works on the pronunciation of “Inters
pronunciation,
recognition of speech symbols as graphic signs on the printed
page, and ability to reproduce these symbols in writing
Long-range Objectives
Must be language as the native speaker uses it
There must be some knowledge of a second language as it is
possessed by a true bilingualist
Oral proficiency, Oral fluency
Mike: What does your mother do, Jane?
Jane: She
“All human beings have a need for Phatic communion (Malinowski, 1923)
Focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures
Very personal, egoistic nature of SLA
Learners take on a new identity with their newly acquired competence
→ SLA involves some degree of identity conflict
Guiora et al. (1972):
a direct relationship between inhibition
and pronunciatio