Lingüística Aplicada
Student’s name: Mariela Isabel Waldovino
E-mail address:
DNI: 28198595
City / Province: Paso de los Libres - Corrientes
Date: 21/04/2012
The four instructional sequences are:
Test, teach, test
This activity is usually student-centered since the teacher starts a diagnostic onhowwhat language the students know. Then the teacher focuses especial attention where she noticed she will need to reinforce language and finally she test the language taught.
This approach has three stages: Discover what a learner can do
Attempt to teach the learner some of the things she/he apparently can’t do
Check to see if learning has in fact taken place
The PPP Approach
It has three stages too. Presentation of the target language given by the teacher, Practice where students practice the given language and Production where they will try to use the language learned.
In my opinion it is an easy and structured way of teaching a language and may be most of the teachers get used with it but it does not ensure that the learner could use the language in real situations outside the classroom’s practice part because they might forget the learned structure.
Task based Language Learning
The difference with the previous two is that the teacher doesn’t pre-determinate what language will be taught.
Emphasis is laid on the completion of tasks rather than on accuracy of language forms and the language usedis that ofthe tasks.
The teacher will be a facilitator, an observer or consultant
The basic goal is the development of communicative skills. As the Test, Teach, Test and PPP approaches it does not ensure students will be able to communicate because they may be attached to only some pieces of language given during the tasks.
Content Based Approach
It is based on learning about something rather than learning about the language. The teacher consider it a very effective way to learn English and in my personal opinion is an effective way of getting students involved with they want to learn since the teacher would ask them to learn on a topic they are interested in. It is a very motivating challenge for the teacher and the student.
In my lessons I tend to apply the PPP approach. I realizedthat I am atraditionalteacherbecause this methodis followedby mostof them. But I have noticed that it is a too structured and mechanic method like Test, Teach, Test and Task Based Language Learning.
So I think and I have learned by reading about these approaches that a useful and motivating approach would be the Content Based Approach because even students may feel desperate seeing a text all in a second language if the teacher finds good material and if it is the interest of students we can have good results.
It is up to the teacherto feel encouraged andbreak down withconventions!!!! Would I??
Feedback:
Mariela,
What you’ve written is very interesting. However, bear in mind that it is not structured as an essay. This is academic writing, so you should organize your writing in a different way:
First, write an introduction, then the body paragraphs divided according to the topic you’re going to deal with in each of them and finally, a conclusion. I won’t ask you to redo the assignment but please take this into account for future assignments or exams.
Cinthia