1. INTRODUCTION INTO ELT A seminar course for OTAK students Session 9
‘ELT for a Global World’
INTRODUCTION INTO ELT
A seminar course for OTAK students
Session 9
Halápi Magdolna, Major Éva, Christopher Ryan
Department of English Language Pedagogy
Supported by the Higher Education Restructuring Fund allocated to ELTE by the Hungarian Government 1
 2016 Halápi, Major, Ryan

2. 9. Basic TEFL Principles and Related Methods & Approaches From Communicative Language Teaching to Principled Eclecticism 2
 2016 Halápi, Major, Ryan

3. Watch this video demonstration of the Communicative Approach
Communicative Approach demo
Discuss your first impressions with another partner… 3
 2016 Halápi, Major, Ryan

4. Questions to discuss
1. How would you characterize the spirit or atmosphere of the class? What specific things does the teacher do to foster this atmosphere?
2. How would you characterize the students’ motivation or interest in the tasks? What lesson elements contribute to student interest?
3. Why does the teacher choose a situation from his own life to introduce the target function?
4. What different roles or functions did the teacher assume during the course of the lesson? What did each of these functions contribute toward the students’ accomplishment of the objectives?
(Based on D.Larsen-Freeman 1990, p. 45.) 4
 2016 Halápi, Major, Ryan

5. Evaluation of the Communicative Approach/1
1. Goals
2. Role of the teacher/student
3. Teaching/ Learning     Process?
4. Nature of student/teacher interaction
5. How are     students’ feelings     dealt with? 5
 2016 Halápi, Major, Ryan

6. Evaluation of the Communicative Approach/2
6. View of language/ culture?
7. What language      skills are   emphasized?
8. Role of the native language?
9. How does evaluation occur?
10. Treatment of errors? 6
 2016 Halápi, Major, Ryan

7. Common features of the activity series and the demo lesson
Work in groups of 3 and identify at least 5 common characteristics of the activity series we had done and the demo lesson we have seen 7
 2016 Halápi, Major, Ryan

8. Common features of the activity series and the demo lesson
Role play (information gap)
Emphasis on discourse (functions, discourse markers, atc.)
Students’ feelings are important
Less stress
Pair work and group work
Errors are part of the learning process 8
 2016 Halápi, Major, Ryan

9. Methods & me - Assignment
Think about all the methods and approaches we have discussed, evaluate them in your own words from your own perspective. (Try forming your own Principled Eclecticism.) These questions might help:
Is there anything worth using in this technique?
How can I adopt this technique to my own future teaching circumstances?
What other ways I can put this principle into practice?
9/12 9
 2016 Halápi, Major, Ryan

10. Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct. New York: HarperCollins.
References:
Richards, J. C., & Rodgers, T. S. (2001). Approaches and methods in language teaching (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rivers, W. M. (1981). Teaching foreign-language skills. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Rouse, W. H. D. (1925). Latin on the Direct Method. London: University of London Press.
Larsen-Freeman, D. (2000) Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct. New York: HarperCollins. 10
 2016 Halápi, Major, Ryan