HLT
HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING
History of Language Teaching is a very deep topic, it has been
approached by persons who wanted to innovate the way to teach foreign languages
through different methods.
“Whereas today English is the world´s most widely studied foreign
language, 500 years ago it was Latin…In the sixteenth century, however, French,
Italian, and English gained in importance as a result of political changes in
Europe, and Latin gradually became displaced as a language of spoken and
written communication.”1 From the study of Latin was taken the model
to teach modern languages and it consists in grammar rules, vocabulary and
sentences for translation. Oral practice was limited and they focused only in
grammar rules like morphology and syntax. This approach is known as the
Grammar-Translation Method. In it reading and writing is important because
vocabulary is taught with its translation and grammar rules with images, for
this reason sentence is the main unit of teaching, learning and practicing. Students
are taught in a deductively way so they must have accuracy when they translate
exercises. Something that helps students is their native language because it is
used for make easier the learning by making comparisons between the foreign language
they are learning and their native language.
We must know all this if we want to be teachers because is necessary to
have a method to teach our classmates in a correct way.
Yadira Cano Gómez
David García Velasco
Bibliography
"Approaches and Methods
in Language Teaching". Jack C. Richards.
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ResponderBorrarTo read and write about the history of language helped me to know what happened in the past that made the language a very important thing in our life. I did not know anything about how the language become to be our principal way of communication, so it was very interesting to know about the history of language and all the methods created through the years.
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