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  2. Most Popular Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Here’s a helpful rundown of the most common language teaching methods and ESL teaching methods. You may also want to take a look at this: Foreign language teaching philosophies. #1: The Direct Method

  3. Text-Based Instruction (TBI) is an approach that is based on the following principles: • Teaching explicitly about the structures and grammatical features of spoken and written texts. • Linking spoken and written texts to the social and cultural contexts of their use.

  4. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching seeks to provide a comprehensive and comprehensible account of major and minor trends in language teaching methods from the beginning of the twentieth cen-tury to the present. To highlight the similarities and differences between approaches and methods, the same descriptive framework is used throughout.

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    • Grammar Translation Method. This is by far the oldest method of language teaching, dating back several centuries. The original purpose was to translate classic literature from Ancient Latin and Greek into modern languages.
    • The Natural Approach. In the mid-20th century, linguists recognized that the grammar-translation method had many shortcomings. Krashen and Terrell (1983) proposed a new methodology stemming from Terrell’s belief in the Natural Approach (1977).
    • Audio-Lingual Method. This method aligns well with Krashen’s hypothesis about the need for comprehensible input in language learning. The audio-lingual method promotes the notion that learning language can be simulated inside the classroom by using prescribed dialogues and texts which are comprehensible to the learners.
    • Total Physical Response. Total Physical Response, or TPR, was created by Dr. James Asher (1965). As with the theories of Terrell and Krashen, Asher believed that children learn a new language the way they learn their mother tongue.
  5. Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is an innovative approach to language teaching which emphasises the importance of engaging learners natural abilities for acquiring language incidentally.

  6. English Type: International English. Methodology in Language Teaching | Methodology in Language Teaching provides an overview of approaches, issues, and practices in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. | Jack C. Richards, Willy A. Renandya.

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