Popular Methodology

Popular Methodology

A. Approaches, methods, procedures, and techniques

A1 – Audio-lingualism

In this model, the drill is heavily emphasized to form the students’ habit and constantly learning to banish mistakes

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A2 – Presentation, Practice, and Production

The students are given situation contextualized the language to be taught. The students also practice the language using techniques, such as choral repetition, individual repetition, and cue-response drill. Then, the students are able to make their own sentence as production.

A3 – PPP and Alternatives to PPP

There are several models in PPP for training purposes as a teaching procedure for teachers to employ rather than to make a good teaching. And the achievement is not exact, but flexible.

A4 – The Communicative Approach

The Communicative Approach or Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is the name which was given to a set of beliefs which included not only a re-examination of what aspect of language to teach, but also a shift in emphasis in how to teach. It is used to make students are able to use language properly in variety contexts and purposes. Using this, the students should have a strong will and desire to communicate. Students also will get many realistic communications to k now the students’ achievement such as role play and simulation. So, it will improve the students’ skill and knowledge.

A5 – Task-based Learning

Students are given task, then after the task completed, teacher give correction and discuss the language which the students’ performance. It will make a good direct correction based on the task.

A6 – Four Methods

They are frequently described, together, as humanistic approaches because in three out of the four cases at least, the designers are primarily concerned to lower the students’ affective filter, and so remove a psychological barrier to learning.

Ø  Community Language Learning, students are gather in a circle and discuss something. The rule of teacher is as a counselor.

Ø  The Silent Way, teacher must be quiet or says as little as possible in the class, and the students must be active.

Ø  Suggestopaedia, the students must be made as comfort as possible in class, must be relax, to make students study happily.

Ø  Total Physical Response (TPR), students must do an action as a respond of every single command or language they hear.

A7 – Humanistic Teaching

Humanistic teaching has also found a greater acceptance at the level of procedures and activities, in which students are encouraged to make use of their own lives and feeling in the classroom. In this method, the activities are designed to make students feel happy and good. So, the students may learn easily.

A8 – The Lexical Approach

Students have to read a text and then underline the noun they can find and also the verb. It must follow the pedagogic principles and syllabus specifications.

B. What methodology?

B1 – Methods and culture

In teaching language should applied culture in linguistics. Our language reflects our attitude and behavior or culture in the way we communicate and teach. Like in class, students’ behavior describes their culture where they are from, active or not active, etc. Teaching and learning must be agreed in one way. Even the students and teachers come from the same country or cities, must be remembered that they may come from different culture. So, in teaching, teachers must pay attention of this.

B2 – Making Choices

It is not easy to make a decision what method and techniques used in teaching language because basically it depends on how language is learnt. Teachers should consider about the students culture, character, type, age, and level, not to mention the teachers background and beliefs. Yet certain conclusions can be drawn: Exposure to language; Input; CLT; The affective variable; Discovery; Grammar and lexis; Methodology and culture

Source: Buku The Practice of English Language Teaching, Third edition By Jeremy Harmer