Report: Developing Understanding of Language Teaching Methods

This report provides an overview of various methods and approaches for language teachers. It begins by emphasizing the complexities of language teaching and the importance of teacher attentiveness. The main body focuses on specific methods like high student involvement, note-taking, and utilizing movies and serials for language acquisition. It also discusses the direct method, communicative teaching, and community language learning. Furthermore, the report covers structural approaches and models like ESA (Straight arrow, Boomerang, and patchwork) and PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production). The conclusion highlights the need for teachers to be focused and adopt effective methods to improve their and their students’ efficiency. The report references key books and journals on language teaching, including works by Kaygisiz, Anagun, Karahan, Harmer, and Turan.

DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING
AND SELECTING THE METHODS
AND APPROACHES AVAILABLE FOR
LANGUAGE TEACHERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Teaching a language is a complex issue for teachers as well as for the learners. Teachers
have to be extremely attentive while delegating their teachings and lessons. This report will
suggest some basic methods and approaches of teaching any languages. It will cover some basic
elements of teaching English language to students with respect to some specified models and
methods.
MAIN BODY
Being a language teacher, I will be focusing on some specified methods and approaches
of teaching which my help me as well as my students to grab the lessons effectively. At regular
teaching basis, I believe that high involvement with students can be extremely supportive for
language teachers. I will deliver some steps to my students which will help them to learn the
language in a creative and interesting way (Kaygisiz, Anagun and Karahan, 2018). I will ask
them to develop and make their own study notes, watch movies and serials in the same language
they intended learn. Apart from this, I will ask them to communicate with each other in English
only and to interact with themselves, hearing or assessing their own mistakes to promote self
learning process. Along with it, I may use advanced teaching modules that will support me in
generating more advanced teaching aid and plans for my students.
There are number of methods and approaches that can be used while delivering learning
lectures to students. Selection of methods can be done on the basis of nature of learners and their
capabilities. As per the justified teaching methods and its effectiveness, I can choose a significant
pattern by either choosing a single method or by combining two approaches of teaching a
language (Harmer, J. 2017). Direct method can be used where I can specify instructions of using
a single language which I tend to teach for regular interaction. I may restrict my students to
communicate in other languages or in any language they are comfortable with.
Two other interesting methods of teaching a language are Communicative teaching and
community language learning. Both can be effective teaching styles for me to regulate learning
of my students in slightly different way. In communicative language teaching, I would be
delivering all the necessary tips and suggestions to students for strengthening their
communication in every possible and basic situations. While in community language learning, I
will drive my focus on to relationship and bond I share with my students and try to teach them in
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their mother language. This method is one of the most effective method to teach any language to
students which will provide a comfortable and supporting environment to them for learning.
Similarly, structural approach of teaching any language such as English, can be one of the most
complicated process which tends to create a sense of threat language among students. This
process focus upon the complicated rules of grammar that need to introduced whiling teaching
English language.
As far the models and approaches of teaching any language is considered, ESA model
can be a supportive framework to deliver a standardised pattern of teaching to the students. As
per this model, teachers may utilises three directional approaches which is Straight arrow,
Boomerang and patch work procedures. This three directional method can be collaboratively
utilised by teachers by high level of involvement and engagement with students. Another
approach that can be practised by teachers for effective teaching system is PPP model which
includes “Presentation, Practise and Production” (Turan and Akdag- Cimen, 2019). The teachers
may effectively present the what they will be going to teach, after it they may undergo for
collective practices and at last, the students may ask to produce their own sentences in the same
language which is being learning. I may increase the effectiveness of my teaching processes by
including the most appropriate and suitable models of teaching techniques.
For my teaching methodology, I will focus upon listening skills of my students to provide
them support during all learning sessions. I will deliver a proper listening materials and strategies
to my students which will help them to easily reciprocate to the questions asked them in English.
I will select an appropriate model of teaching which is ESA framework that will deliver me as
specific directions of engaging emotionally with my students, provide them sufficient
encouragement to study and learn English language.
CONCLUSION
The report has summarised that, language teachers need to be highly focused with their
teaching processes and inclusion of teaching models and approaches They must adopt a single to
two effective methods to increase efficiency of their own and their students as well.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Kaygisiz, S., Anagun, S. S. & Karahan, E., (2018). The Predictive Relationship between Self-
Efficacy Levels of English Teachers and Language Teaching Methods. Eurasian Journal
of Educational Research. 78. pp.183-201.
Turan, Z. & Akdag- Cimen, B., (2019). Flipped classroom in English language teaching: a
systematic review. Computer Assisted Language Learning. pp.1-17.
Online
Harmer, J. (2017). Teaching Lexically: Principles and Practice.
Freeman, D., Freeman, D. J., Richards, J. C., & Swan, M. (Eds.). (1996). Teacher learning in
language teaching. Cambridge University Press.
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