Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A brief history of language learning
- The chapter talks about the evolution of language
teaching and show to us methods that were meaninful
in the history
- It explain 4 main methods that were importtant
in the history thanks to their changes or how
different were between each other
- The
grammar-translation
method
- Johann
Seidenstucker
- -The goal of foreign language study is to learn a
language in order to read it literature.
- Karl Plotz
- H.S. Ollendorf
- -Reading and writing were the major focus.
- - Vocabulary selection was based solely on
reading text used, and word were thought
through bilingual word list, dictionary study and
memorization.
- - The sentence was the basic unit of teaching
and language practice.
- Child
language
learning
- C. Marcel
- -Reading had to be thought before other skills.
- T. Prendergast
- F. Gouin
- - The first “structural syllabus” was proposed in this method.
- - Memorized phrases and routines were used for speaking.
- - I walk toward the door -> I walk.
- Natural Method
- - The spoken language was primary.
- Henry Sweet
- Wilhelm Vietor
- Paul Passy
- - The findings of phonetics should be applied to teaching
and to teacher training.
- - The learner should hear the language
first, before seeing it in written form.
- - All the words and sentences should be practices in meaningful
contexts.
- The Direct Method
- - Classroom instruction was conducted only
in the target language.
- Maximilian Berlitz
- F. Franke
- L. Sauveur
- - Only vocabulary and sentences of the day
were taught.
- - Oral communication was built with assertive
communication between teachers and students in an
answer-and-question exchange.
- - Grammar was taught inductively.
- - New teaching points were introduced orally.