Language Teaching Methodologies: Which One Is The Best?
Language Teaching Methodologies: which one is the best?
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A research paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the TESOL Certificate Program at Universal Students Center, Montreal, Canada.
Abderrahim AGNAOU
© 2001
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Table of Contents
0. Introduction
I. Accuracy Before Fluency School
I.1. The Grammar-Translation Method
I.2. The Direct Method
I.3. The Audiolingual Method
II. Fluency Before Accuracy School
III. What Is the Best Teaching Methodology?
VI. Conclusion
Bibliography
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Introduction
The ideas presented here are the culmination of research into the development of language teaching methodology. The purpose of this research paper is to ascertain the facts about the various methodologies and present the positive and negative features of some of them in an attempt to formulate my own teaching style.
In learning languages, a distinction is usually made between mother tongues, second languages, and foreign languages. A mother tongue is the first language or languages one acquires as a child. When immigrants come to a new country and learn the language of that country, they are learning a second language. On the other hand, when English-speaking students in the United States learn French or Spanish in school, or when Moroccans study English in Morocco, they are learning a foreign language. The acronyms ESL and EFL stand for the learning of English as a Second and as a Foreign Language.
In the field of education, it is generally assumed that language can be learned rather than taught. This has been justified by the fact that a large number of speakers of English in the world have come to use the language before they actually receive any formal language training of any kind. While this is true for native speakers of English, the majority of non-native speakers had to attend formal classes of some sort to learn English. Therefore, language specialists have made efforts to model first...
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