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1、ThemainmethodsandapproachesinEnglishteachingCompare,contrastandcriticallyevaluatethemainmethodsandapproachesthathavebeenusedinEnglishlanguageteaching,commentontheextenttowhicheachofthesecanbeusedinyourfutureteachingpractice.IntroductionLanguageteachinghasalong,fa
2、scinating,butrathertortuoushistory.Forovercenturies,therearealotofmethodsandapproachesinlanguageteaching.(Stern,1984)Butinthisessay,onlyfivemainmethodsandapproachesarediscussedfordevelopmentsinlinguistics,psychology,pedagogy,andsecondlanguageacquisitionresearchha
3、vecastlightonwhatismorelikelyandlesslikelytowork.Theyarethegrammar-translationmethod,thedirectmethod,theaudio-lingualmethod,situationallanguageteaching,communicativelanguageteaching.Wewillfocusontheirdevelopment,principalcharacteristics,advantagesanddrawbacks.The
4、implicationforthemethodsandapproachesinmyfutureteachingpracticewillbeintroducedbriefly.1.TheGrammar-translationMethod1.1TheDevelopmentThegrammar-translationmethodisoneofthemosttraditionalmethods,datingbacktothelatenineteenthandearlytwentiethcenturies.Itwasorigina
5、llyusedtoteachLatinandGreekwhicharenottaughtforeverydaycommunication.HoweverthemethodwasgraduallygeneralizedtoteachlivingormodernlanguagessuchasEnglishorFrench,etc.IthasbeenusedbyteachersofEnglishforaboutahundredyears.1.2ThePrincipalCharacteristicsThegoalofthemet
6、hodistoreadandtranslatetheliterarymasterpiecesandclassics,nottocommunicateinthedailylife.Grammaticalrulesaretaughtdeductivelyinclass;readingandwritingaremainlyfocused;vocabularyistaughtintheformofisolatedwordlists;noattentionispaidtospeakingandlistening;littleatt
7、entionispaidtopronunciation;readingofdifficulttextsisbegunearlyinthecourseofstudy;sentencesarethebasicunitofteachingandlanguagepractice;many`ofthelessonsaredevotedtotranslatingsentencesintoandoutofthetargetlanguage;writtenaccuracyisemphasized.Alsopeople’snativela
8、nguageisthemediumofinstruction.Itisoftenusedtoexplainthenewlanguageitems.Anditfacilitateslearningthroughattentiontosimilaritiesbetweenthetargetlanguageandthena
