Eclectic Approach

As Chang (2011) stated about students that “they lack the knowledge of grammar, they are likely to make grammatically incorrect sentences. Therefore, the Communicative Approach encourages some grammatical inaccuracy.” (p.5) since the knowledge is not something that should be assumed, neither should be the rules of language. When using translation to teach, either in a communicative environment or in a traditional method, students are given help to expand their own vocabulary and at the same time give meaning to those new concepts and words that come with the translation. They can understand by their own means thus making the knowledge more meaningful. Chang also mentions that “The communicative approach might have been proved to be the best way of training students in ESL learners. However, it doesn’t meet the needs of learners in distant lands, who learn English for a different purpose and who have no hope of ever visiting the target country and no desire to adopt the target culture.” (p.6). Regarding to this, if we take context as a whole and not only as the matter of what is seen in a classroom, then it is correct to say that using the communicative approach is certainly optimal to develop a better usage of the language but, at the same time, if the final goal of the language is centred on an specific task, is better to focus on the specific

Essentially, the older models of teaching are becoming blatantly outdated and ineffective at really introducing students to the myriad of complexities within the subject as a whole. Previous generations had focused on more narrow models of teaching English that focus more on the outcome rather than the process. Many corporate models of public education focus more on standardized testing than actually getting the students engaged with the literature they are being exposed to. Essentially "teachers are forced into shifting their primary focus of attention from teaching literacy to teaching students how to handle tests," (Thompson 2009 p 5). This model has proven incredibly bland, and therefore ineffective in the changing educational environment. There were increasingly limited models of teaching based on the hegemony within the Anglophone world (Green & Cormack 2008). This attests to the idea that the name English restricts the learning processes that go on within this particular subject (Kress 2006).

English language teaching is an art that requires artistic sensibility and well trained perfectibility. Each stage of English language acquisition will present unique challenges and require unique strategies. It cannot be mastered within a particular period of time. Learning English language will take some years to be mastered. Teaching the international language inside the classroom is very difficult indeed, especially for non native speakers of the language. Various strategies have to be applied for teaching English inside the classroom and to make students use the language outside the classroom. Teaching vocabulary requires more attention. Effective ways of teaching words will enhance learning capability. Mere learning of vocabulary will not make the learning process complete. For an effective mode of communication learners should be taught to use vocabulary in authentic situation. English language teachers need to concentrate on the ways which can help and teach

Archakis (2006) states that the communicative approach has recently prevailed. The purpose of language teaching is to help learners to practice relevant cases of communication. According to the communicative approach the language teaching has to be directly interrelated with contextual components. The stress of language teaching needs to be language use in social events, that is, students should be aware of the socio cultural and sociolinguistic skills for appropriate language use. Oral discourse is an entity of a range of discourse genres such as a lecture, conversation. Oral speech should be taught on a regular bases involving students in various activities and social circumstances. The teaching of oral discourse should be centered on the specific features of oral speech that promotes participation. It is very helpful for students as contemporary society concentrating on oral conversational speech and its peculiar daily used devices. This leads learners to the production of dramatization, interpersonal contribution, arguing competence as well as building identity as critical

According to Kevin Johnston he stated that “when you start up a business wither it is big or small you instantly become a leader with leadership training or without it. (Johnston 2015) what the Eclectic perspective means is to combine different approaches to meet the need of a client or in criminal justice terms the administrators or law enforcement officers in general to help discuss current and future criminal justice administrative issues like police corruption or other issues. After reading pages 76 through 77 I figured that the Search for Themes and direction milestone by Richard J Stillman the second makes out lot of sense in a certain way for example according to Cronkhite and Stillman they stated that in “order for a criminal justice

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

English has undergone some changes in relation to its status in the world. Some years ago, it only became the first or second language for several countries. Nowadays, alongside with the development of information, communication, and technology the status of English becomes a lingua franca in the world. That is, a language that is used as a means of communication between people with different language. This change, of course, brings some impacts in the roles of English as a language. English is not seen as a language for identity anymore. Yet, it functions mainly as a means of communication. Added to this, the change of the English status as a lingua franca will also impact to the educational sector especially in English Language Teaching (ELT). With regard to this issue, this paper tries to present the notion of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and its implication to the teaching learning process especially in Indonesian context.

The communicative approach is a new theory that emphasizes communicative competence as the main goal of learning language. It believes that grammatical competence is insufficient for learners to use a language effectively. Dell Hymes, linguist stated that there are rules of use without which the rules of grammar would be useless.

Learning of English and communication skills in high school and colleges has helped in developing positive attitude towards English and thus boost learning process. Students at all levels not only take the initiative to study the language, but also practice it often. Teachers inspire and guide learners to advance their level of proficiency in English. There are various perspectives which this goal is achieved. First, the student’s attitude is determined because it enables the assessment of the effectiveness of the method used for teaching students about the English language (The National Commission

This article is a short overview of the Eclectic theory or ideology of teaching English. A discovery of where the origins of the philosophy were born, and why it evolved and stayed alive in many fields of study to this day.. While many old school linguists see it as un principled and vague without any structure, is does have strong concepts and principles about language acquisition and learning environments, choices of activities and reasons for these varieties, A look at what prominent linguists say about the advantages and the disadvantages of this theory.

Communicative language teaching (CLT) is based on the idea that language is but a mean for communication, and so its primary goal is to achieve, what is called, communicative competence. For CLT, a good language learner is one who can communicate well in a real life situation that which involves a lot of strategies to keep a meaningful conversation and to avoid any communication gap. Unlike the audio-lingual method, which originally originated from behaviorism, CLT did not have any psychological background. Thus, all that CLT material developers and syllabus designers had was the broad theory that students learn best by doing. It was all based on the general assumption that the “learners’ communicative competence develops automatically through their active participation

Students can learn language skills very quickly by participating in different activates like JAM, Debate, Extempore, Role-play, Mock- Group Discussions, vocabulary games presentations, seminars etc. so teacher should be confident and competent to lead the students towards proficient in English language. They become proficient in English by learning language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). It is great challenge to the Modern English teacher to make the students expert in English. This paper aims at to discuss role of English teacher, challenges in teaching English language in modern era and ways to learn language skills through different sources.

Cantonese is the mother tongue of the majority of Hong Kong secondary students. It is generally believed that student feel more confident when they are asked to speak in a language used in their daily life. In contrast, using Putonghua to teach Chinese may cause learning obstacles. Students need to learn a new set of pronunciation and usage of words. Both speaking and listening have to be managed in a language that they are not as familiar as Cantonese. This probably discourage student from class discussion. Cantonese does not contain these barriers. Therefore student is likely to focus on deeper levels of language features and improve the teaching effectiveness. According to the study done by The Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (“SCOLAR”), there is no clear evidence or statistic can prove that using Putonghua as the medium of instruction can enhance teaching efficiency (Chan, 2015) . Besides, the adoption of using Putonghua to teach Chinese language certainly do not match the current exanimating syllabus. The oral and listening exams are carried out in Cantonese in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (DSE). Even if the schools use Putonghua as the main medium of instruction in common lessons, they have to switch back to Cantonese when students practicing past papers. This is apparently inefficient to provide education for one single

Having in mind the topic of this article, Nihat (2008) explains the importance of acquiring communicative competences inside the classrooms as an important fact of English Language Teaching. He stated that more than grammatical rules and structures, students should know how to use their second language, in order to

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