Views of English Learning Earlier views of English learning focused primarily on the mastery of grammatical competence (GC). According to this view: English learning was viewed as a process of mechanical habit formation. Good habits are formed by teaching students to produce correct sentences. Making mistakes is not allowed. Errors should be avoided through controlled […]
Category: Lanaguage Teaching Approaches
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Assumptions and Principles
Before going through the assumptions and principles in CLT, let’s define the following four main terms related to language teaching. Language Teaching Terminology: Approach = “A set of assumptions dealing with the nature of language, learning, and teaching” Method = “An overall plan for a systematic presentation of language based on a selected approach” Procedures […]
Do You Know What ECRIF is?!
ECRIF stands for five phases of students’ learning: Encounter, Clarify, Remember, Internalize, Fluency. ECRIF is a framework for understanding learning, looking at how people learn rather than prescribing what teachers should or should not do. ECRIF framework focuses on the learning process that students go through as they work with the target skill or knowledge rather […]
Five ELT Approaches Working From the 20th Century Up Till Now
Approach is a broad term that reflects a certain model based on a research or theory (e.g. Communicative approach) while a method is a set of procedures compatible with an approach (e.g. Silent way method). A method is more specific than an approach, but a technique is the narrowest term which refers to learning activities […]
ESL vs. EFL in Learning and Teaching
There’s a difference when learning & teaching English as a second language (ESL), and learning & teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). Learning ESL versus learning EFL: In learning ESL, the learner is learning English within an English environment. In this case, English is spoken outside the classroom. The learner here learns English to […]
The Latest Trends in English Language Teaching & Learning
1. CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning): It is one of the latest trends in ELT. This model pursues to make a link between language learning and content development. That is to say, English learning is more oriented around school subjects (History, Science, Geography … etc.). The underlying principle is that English should not be […]
Seven Kinds of CLT Activities to Build up Students’ Communicative Competence
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is based on the main goal of involving students in meaningful communication using the target language. There are many activity types that can be used in the classroom to achieve that goal. The following are the main ones of them. Communicative activities: In these activities students should use the language in […]