COMPARING TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TEACHING: GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD AND DIRECT METHOD I think nowadays different teaching methods are being used in combined ways depending on the teacher, the target language, the educational traditions etc. ... Since the whole world is getting more and more utilitarian there is also a stress on teaching useful things. ... I am going to examine two approaches to language teaching and find the most principal differences between them. ... However, using only the Grammar-Translation Method for teaching a spoken language is not effective any mo...

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Dorfman, in his essay "If Only We All Spoke Two Languages", states, "The bilingual method, in spite of what its detractors claim, does not imprison a child in his or her original language. ... Both methods can work. ... Recognizing the importance of remaining connected with one's culture, the immersion method seems rather futile as a method of education for foreign language speaking children, as it results in the removal of their original culture. ... I am in favor of the two-way immersion method as a bilingual education application in the classroom. ... By allowing student...

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Receiving advice at the beginning of this course, the author was advised that teaching mathematics would be the most rewarding (and thus easiest course) because there is only one correct answer, and it's easier for kids to teach because they know when they get it right. ... In recognition perhaps of an inflexibility within teaching mathematics, writers such as Parker (93, in Orey, 1998), Richards (1991, in Gibbs & Orton (1994), Durkin and Shire (1991) and Roberts (nd) support the NCTM (1989, in Orey, 1998) call for more powerful connections between mathematics and "real-life" by identifyi...

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HOME SCHOOL CONNECTIONS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY For several decades now educators have recognised with great significance the integral role that parents play in their child's foundational language learning (Cairney & Munsie, 1992, p.1). It has also been suggested that the relationship between s...

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You should find that this method of eliding scores will provide more honest and opened reporting from students as the element of competition and perceived threat has been removed. ... A further method of assessment is to use a recorded text as the basis for speaking activity. ...

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Uniform education is dying out and alternative methods are being implemented to help those with developmental delay acquire knowledge and skills based on their personal handicaps. ... Teachers utilized both instructional strategies as well as incidental teaching strategies. Parents were encouraged to use incidental teaching strategies with the children. ...

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In addition to Corder's methodology, the theories of Language transfer as described in the Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (1992). ... This method provides a very rich insight of how and why L2 learners usually confuse themselves trying to get better at the target language, resulting in mistakes that can be overcome with fair difficulty. ...

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