Methods

As the language theories underlying the Audiolingual method and the Sitiuational Language Teaching method were questioned by prominent linguists like Chomsky (1957) during the 1960s,… Read More »Communicative Language Teaching (The Communicative Approach)

Content based instruction (CBI) is a teaching approach that focuses on learning language through learning about something. Although CBI is not new, there has been… Read More »Content Based Instruction

The Oral Approach or Situational Language Teaching is an approach developed by British applied linguists between the 1930s and the 1960s. While it is unknown… Read More »Situational Language Teaching (Oral Approach)

Total Physical Response is a language teaching method that is based on the assumption that the coordination of speech and action will boost language learning.… Read More »Total Physical Response

The origin of Suggestopedia Suggestopedia is a language teaching method developed by the Bulgarian psychologist, Georgi Lozanov (see picture on the right.) Like Community Language… Read More »Suggestopedia

The Silent Way The Chomskyan criticism of the theories upon which the audiolingual method was founded led to an interest in  not only the affective… Read More »The Silent Way Method

The difference between method and methodology in teaching? English Language Teaching (ELT) terminology can be sometimes confusing. This post attempts to describe the difference between… Read More »What is the difference between method and methodology in teaching?

Background of the Community Language Learning As the Chomskyan linguistic revolution turned linguists and language teachers away from the audiolingual method which focused on surface… Read More »Community Language Learning

The Audio-Lingual method of teaching  had its origins during World War II when it became known as the Army Method.  It is also called the… Read More »The Audiolingual Method