TOPIC 1

Anmerkungen:

• Evolution of Language Teaching. Present-Day Trends in Teaching EFL. Communicative Approaches.
• Evolution of Language Teaching. Present-Day Trends in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Communicative Approaches.

1. 2. Evolution in the Didactics of Languages
   1. 2.1 Pre-19th Century Trends
   2. 2.2 First Modern Approaches to the teaching of Modern languages
      1. a) The Grammar-translation method
      2. b) The Direct method and the Natural Approach
   3. 2.3 Twentieth Century Innovations
      1. a) The Situational approach
      2. b) The Audio-lingual method
      3. c) The Cognitive approach in FLT
      4. d) The Affective-humanistic approach
         1. i) Communicative Language Learning
         2. ii) Desuggestopedia
      5. e) The Communicative approach
2. 3. Present-Day Trends in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
   1. 3.1) Procedural Approaches
      1. a) Task-based models
      2. b) Content-based language teaching
   2. 3.2) Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
   3. 3.3) The Use of the Internet in foreign language teaching
3. 4. Communicative approaches
   1. 4.1) Reviewing the Principles
      1. a) Goals
      2. b) Roles of the teacher and the students
      3. c) Characteristics of the Teaching/Learning Process
      4. d) Interaction: Student-Teacher & Student-Student
      5. e) Dealing with feelings
      6. f) View of Language and Culture
      7. g) Aspects of language emphasized
      8. h) Role of Student's native language
      9. i) Means for evaluation
      10. j) Response to students' errors
   2. 4.2) Reviewing Techniques and Materials
      1. a) Authentic materials
      2. b) Scambled sentences
      3. c) Language games
      4. d) Picture Strip Story
      5. e) Role plays
      6. f) Total Physical Response
4. 5. Conclusion
5. 6. Curricular links
6. 7. Bibliography
7. 1. Introduction