The grammar translation method is a language teaching method to learn a foreign language. GTM is derived from the classical/traditional method of teaching Greek and Latin. This method aims at studying and analyzing the grammatical rules of the target language. Continue reading…
The Direct Method was started in France and Germany around 1900. It replaced Grammar Translation Method and other traditional methods and approaches. Moreover, it replaced C. J. Dodson’s bilingual method of language teaching. International language schools like Inlingua and Berlitz also adopted direct language teaching method. Continue reading…
James Asher, a professor of psychology at San Jose State University, California, developed a new language teaching method that was based on physical activity (coordination of speech and action). It is known as Total Physical Response Method to activity of physical involvement in learning. Continue reading…
The Audio-lingual Method emerged in United States at the end of 1950s. The U.S. government acknowledged the need for a more concentrated effort to teach foreign languages in order to prevent U.S. from becoming isolated from the scientific advancement. Specifically, when scientific inventions were at peak and first Russian satellite was launched in 1957. Continue reading…
The Whole Language Method strongly opposes teaching of a language in form of small segments but it focuses that language should be taught as a “whole” instead of parts. “If language isn’t kept whole, it isn’t language anymore.” (Rigg, 1991, 522). Continue reading…