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Mostly written, this method requires just the ability to memorize vocabulary words, and has little oral communication or listening. Repetition drills and fill-in-the-blank exercises are used.
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Teaching a second language by recreating conditions in which children first learn a language. Involves mimicry and acting out what the teacher is saying.
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Some of the same principles of The Series Method, Berlitz wanted to immerse the children in their target language. The objectives included speaking and listening comprehension and not translation. Class sizes were small, and hard to put in place in public schools.
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The Series Method, The Direct Method
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Audiolingual Method (ALM) Extensive conversation practice in the target language, uses responses and rewards for habit formation. The teacher may speak in their native language, and visual aids are used.
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Counselor-client relationship, focused on fact that sometimes we're faced with emotional barriers to learning.
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Mind and body need to be relaxed to learn, dim lighting, comfy arm chairs, etc.
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Learning is automatic when students want to discover, not memorize. Associating color coded things with phonemes.
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Effective when learner has no knowledge of target language, focused on listening.
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Community Language Learning, Suggestopedia, The Silent Way,
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A means of making rigorous lessons more comprehensible to ELLs, eventually become standards based.
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The Natural Approach is published. Supported by Krashen's Model of Language Acquisition, this model is teacher centered and learning is made to be enjoyable. Technique to help students acquire, and not consciously learn the target language, with little conscious effort.
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Similar to the Natural Approach, but students are to avoid using their native language. Seeks to create real-life social situations to help students, and grammar is not taught.
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Takes things that work from multiple models from the past and combine them into the language classroom. Allows teachers to use what they see is effective.