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- Your Midterm Web Resources Research Project
- Week 4 Powerpoint Presentation
- Richards & Rodgers Audiolingual Method (Ch. 4)
- Week 3 Powerpoint Presentation
- Richards & Rodgers (R&R) Chapter 3
- The Week 2 Powerpoint Presentation and the Demo Le...
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- A Brief History of Language Teaching
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2 comments:
Audiolingual teaching would lead students to actually speak language by mimicry and memorization. Ss are soon able to say thing they have never heard or practised before. But, Ss are not exposed to real or realistic language. It is out of fashion because language learning is far more subtle than just the formation of habits.
Teachers avoid letting beggining
Ss speak freely because this would allow them to make errors. They think the errors could become habits.
I think we'd better encourage Ss to develop 'fluency' before 'accuracy' with appropriate correction and explicit instruction not to lead early 'fossilization of errors'. The classroom emphasis on 'accuracy' often leads Ss to reluctant to use their knowledge for communication.
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