The necessity of learning another language has pointed out to our society. We lived in a world where the power has everything under its control. Each person has the ability of dominating more than one language. Considering this is important to say that everybody has different abilities when is learning a language. The teachers who teach the English language must observe the ability that every student has for making easier the learning.
There are several methods which help the learning of another language, especially English, like: Total Physical Response, Audio-Lingual Method, Direct Method, Suggestopedia Method, Communicative Approach, Grammar-Translation Method for saying something.
The Grammar-Translation method is used to help the Students toread and value the foreign literature; to speak and write better language that is learning. This method produce a good mental exercise and learn the grammatical rules of the foreign language. With this we can watch it does not to pay attention to the listening and pronunciation.
The Direct Method is not used in all schools, just in the private schools. The oral interaction, spontaneous use of the language, no translation between first and second language and the little or not analysis of grammatical rules help the learning in natural way of the English Language.
The Communicative Approach promote the communicative competence knowing when and how to say what to whom. With this method, the students are able to communicate efficiently and they manage the process of negotiating meaning with their interlocutors.
Suggestopedia Method, this method help the students to learn new vocabulary without translated words into their mother tongue. This is a relaxing method, so it makes students to absorb the knowledge of the foreign language. Decoration, furniture and arrangement of the classroom, the use of classical music, the authoritative behaviour of teachers and literature plays are the key elements of this method.
Task Based Learning approaches students to the different context of languages so they have the opportunity to interact. By interacting with others, they get to listen to language which may be beyond their present ability, but which may be assimilated into their knowledge of the target language for use at a later time.
The Audio-Lingual MEthod emphasized the comprehension of texts. Teachers based their teaching on a book containing short reading passages in their foreign, preceded by lists of vocabulary.
The Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis. Like its name said, there is a hypothesis about how people can learn a language or if theu acquire the language. The acquisition is when somebody lives the language in a natural way, without grammatical rules, speaking rules, they just imitate the people that are arond they. And the learning is based on the all kind of rules about the language that they are studying, and many times this depends on what they want learn better.
Behaviourism this method says that everything can be explained in terms of natural laws ans man has no soul and no mind, only a brain that responds to external stimuli. This method teaches that man is nothing more than a machine that responds to conditioning and also says that we are not responsible for our actions.
Community Language Learning makes students interact with the teacher in many ways, the teacher gives advices, assistance and suport to the students who has a problem or is in some way in need. This method works with the translation, transcription, recording and group work to make a class more interesting.
Cognitivism Method says that there are a finite number of grammatical rules and with the knowledge of this finite number of sentences can be performed in the language. So the students are often encouraged to use rules to create sentences of their own.
First and second language. There are a difference between the first and second language learning, because how many we use a determined language and for what we use our mother tongue or a foreign language. The first language is that we acquire to speak first as child by behaviours. And the second language is that we use for social functions, for example to education, government or business.
Considering all this methods I think the best or one of the best is the TPR, because this method combine speech, action and achieve the goal of comprehension through physicial activities. This provokes a possitive mood to the learning.
When we are children to learn another language is imposed by our parents, and this is not good for the learning process, because is not for pleasure, then the teachers must look for a method where the children feel good in class and are interested in the learning of the foreign language.
the material used in the class is so important, for example, the books, pens, cups, furniture, evertything that the learninf process requires to the children learn better. The teachers selects the material for classroom will be used and they decide what and how to teach. They must consider the voice, actions and gestures, and the attitude for the children are interesting in the learning and that facilitates the learning process.
Finally, I would say that the variety of advantages of learning another language has permitted that the average of people who are learning a foreign language is increasing, which generates a complete society as for education and cultural knowledge. And the old people should be worried our children to they has a better education in their schools.
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