How to Use the Communicative Language Teaching Approach in EFL Classes
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The Three Common Views Of Teaching. Which One Are You For & What’s Your Own?
There are three common views of teaching: “teaching as transmission”, “teaching as transaction”, and “teaching as transformation”. 1. Teaching as Transmission This view perceives teaching to be the act of transmitting knowledge from the teacher’s head to the students’ heads. A Teacher-Centered Approach This view supports the teacher-centred...
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Recognize What Andragogy is & its Six Principles
In this article I’m going to talk about “Andragogy”; what the term refers to and its principles. Andragogy is a theory developed by Malcolm Knowles for adult learning. The notion of andragogy has been around for nearly two centuries. It became particularly popular in North America and Britain...
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Brief Insight Into CLT Approach & Its Application
The Idea The communicative language teaching approach is based on the idea that learning a language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning. When learners are involved in real communication, they naturally learn the language. The History It could be said that the communicative language approach is...
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How To Teach English From The CC Perspective
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...
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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...
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Do You Know What ECRIF Is?!
ECRIF stands for five phases of students’ learning: Encounter, Clarify, Remember, Internalize and 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...
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Four Factors Make TEFL A Failure In Most Countries
EFL is taught in most countries as a compulsory subject. However, most students in these countries do not show good English proficiency or ability in using English in daily-life communications. It may mean that there is some kind of failure of TEFL in these countries. The following are...
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Five ELT Approaches Working From The 20th Century Up Till Now
“Approach” is a broad term that reflects a certain model based on 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...
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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...
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