Advantages And Disadvantages Of Eclectic Theory

Having the insight as a former student and a present educator, Linda Christensen wrote about her views on the way English is taught to students in her essay“Teaching Standard English: Whose Standard?” Christensen

The use of translation in the classroom as a teaching method is a valid method to teach english as a foreign language. Over the years, translation as a teaching method has being avoided as a technique to use at the classroom. With the development of different approaches and methods such as communicative approach or the audiolingual method, which looks for the students to learn with the least possible use of speakers’ native language. According to Richards (2006) to learn how to communicate language people need competence which includes different real-life situations; grammar does not fulfil these roles and as far of the learning, in other words, learning by only speaking and practicing the target language other abilities would eventually be

English is the language of the modern world. It is undeniable that English has become a global lingua franca and has developed throughout history. With the spread of English, it has evolved into different varieties known as ‘World Englishes’ and in turn emerged a number of attitudes to the issues of deviation from what is considered to be ‘standard’. Throughout the years there has been a great debate over the teaching of English in schools. One particular aspect of this is the argument over whether or to what extent Standard English should be used in the education of children. In this essay I will examine the understanding of Standard English and Non-standard Englishes and relate how Standard English is used in the domain education in Outer

Much of the public is misinformed about the existence of nonstandard language varieties, regarding them as “improper” forms of English. AEMP aims to change these views, often held by teachers, by validating nonstandard language varieties, thereby placing pressure upon these teachers to change their attitudes toward the languages, those who speak the languages, and the culture of these speakers. Second-language theorist AEMP classrooms are designed to facilitate interactive communication among students and teachers through cooperative groups using the home language of these children. Put simply, “teachers should talk less (LeMoine, 1999, p. 67). And when teachers must communicate with students for instruction, it is imperative that they allow the children to express themselves in the way that is most comfortable to

Since we are teaching children the standard form of English, it is necessary that all primary teaching is in that form, however, society needs to understand that every child comes from a different background; a child may have grown up using a different form of English or even an entirely different language. Coming from an individual that grew up speaking a different language at home, it is difficult for students like us to make certain connections that children who grew up speaking the standard can make easily. We have a tougher time with seemingly simple concepts because our dialects/languages do not adhere to the same rules that the standard does. Although we have one unifying goal of educating the young in Standard English, all teaching should be based on the child’s background and try to use that to help them learn better and faster. As Pullum described, there is a lot of misconception involving using AAE to implement student’s learning. The point is not to make dialects like AAE a language course in schools or have classes be taught in those dialects, but rather to be used in conjunction with the Standard to efficiently ease children into the desired outcome. Judge Joiner offered a solution to the problem by requiring teachers to dedicate a certain amount of hours to understanding these children’s point of views. Verdelle, on the other hand, seems

490) Leaning about this specific program answers a side question to our groups topic question, which is: what tools are available to incorporate culturally diverse literacies? This reading and discussion has given me specific examples of what effective things I can do to link diverse literacies to standard english. It has also reaffirmed my position that other languages and cultural literacies need to be treated with equal value and respect to the one in which they are leaning in, because they are not just learning for school, they are learning for life, in which a knowledge of working standard english is important, but so is cultural and personal identity. This article specifically relates to an important concept not only in this course but in the program of building off of what one already knows as opposed to starting with the base assumption that they know nothing or that everything they know is

To conclude, in relation with the findings made and my own experience on my practicum in a public school, I can realize that my beliefs were similar to the students who participate in the research. Nevertheless, the only difference is that I do not agree with the memorization of the rules instead, with the internalization by connections with their mother tongue. Also, I believe that in our practicum, we tend to copy the strategies that our mentor teachers use, which are the mechanic activities, paper sheets or drills, and so forth, letting our belief that English is acquired through

Nowadays, English has become the Global language. It is the language of science, technology, economic, etc. As a result, learning English has become an essential need for everyone. While learners try their best to reach their goal of successful communicator in foreign language, teachers find ways to make language teaching effective. In this fashion, considering and choosing the right way in teaching is prior thing for all of teachers and I am not an exception. We have witnessed the dominance of Communicative Approach with Communicative Language Teaching in the world in general and in Vietnam in particular recent years. For me, I will use the Eclectic Approach to teach English in the future due to

My experience as an English Language Learner (ELL) has allowed me to gain an understanding that all students are unique. Each student brings different experiences, customs, beliefs, and traditions into the classroom. Therefore, to effectively enhance learning, their background must be given great consideration. For that reason, I will stimulate learning through class lectures, hands-on assignments, classroom discussions, individual assignments, group projects, and technology. By using different methods, all students will have the opportunity for growth, whether they are visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learners.

Demonstrate the breadth of your understanding of the diversity of English across time, geography, culture and class and explain why it is essential for teachers in the 21st Century to be aware of ‘multi-literacies’ and language variation.

On the other hand, American linguists, based on Chomsky’s language acquisition theory and concept of linguistic competence, started rejecting the Oral Approach. This was the contingent cause for a shift in Britain’s language teaching method, SLT. In fact, also Britain’s linguists began questioning SLT’s practical and theoretical foundations. Therefore, both Chomsky’s studies as well as the criticality British linguists had towards the more traditional methodologies led to the advent of the Communicative Language Teaching approach.

Sometimes more than one method is used to bring out the anticipated outcomes in the language classroom where communication develops the key factor of teaching-learning process. Unless students learn to utilise the classroom method to express thoughts and feelings outside into the real world situations, the learning cannot be effective no matter whatever teaching method is applied in English as a Second Language classroom. Teacher- student role becomes the centre in bringing out the maximum within the limited time in a

The interdisciplinary approach reflects the use and integration of analytical methods and frameworks across disciplines to insight into academic subjects, concepts, questions or ideas. The merit of interdisciplinary education is to integrate concepts and guiding principles of various disciplines to form a more complete and consistent framework of a systematic analysis to help students understand the topic or problem in a more diverse way. Students with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds have diverse academic backgrounds as well. They have diverse intellectual abilities and preferences and learning methods. Thus, by introducing interdisciplinary learning methodologies in which students can be educated with a variety of curriculums and instructions, students would be able to be encouraged to develop their learning skills more effectively. Students can use their past learning, intellectual experience and skills to learn and acquire new knowledge and skills. Through this process, students can be stimulated in their intellectual curiosity and ability, and they can enhance their confidence by actively applying prior knowledge and experience in their learning process.

Effective language learning is the necessity of time. No matter in which discipline you are or what field of occupation you have effective language is a vital goal to success, which cannot be ignored. There are several standards, which determine the criteria for effective language and the learning processes. However, determining a standard is the first and foremost element in this regard. Language teaching and language learning are two entirely different fields, which have their

As we know that learning English in India it is gradually becomes very important due to century as well as techno-age is concerned. We all knew that English is taught either as Second Language or Target Language. It is very difficult for student-beginner who recently starts to learn English language as foreign language. One of the vital and pivotal pivot roles of learning Foreign Language is to open the treasure hidden in the literature of a particular language. To reveal such treasure one needs to be mastered in different methods of teaching the foreign languages. This makes easy full for learners to learn foreign language. If we want to understand different method of teaching foreign language things linguistically we can understand it as “A method in linguistics and language teaching determines what and how much is taught. The order in which it