Archive for the ‘methodology’ Category

June 25th, 2008

Teaching Children Grammar Through Games

An article by: Shelley Vernon
If you don’t want your class to glaze over with dictation, writing exercises and “Jimmy, would you please read paragraph 1,” then take heart! You’ll find you can teach everything you want with games, and the children remember it better to boot.
Here is a disarmingly simple game, which can be used […]

No Comments »
Posted to » methodology, using games
Tags:
May 12th, 2008

Dogme for Dummies

One topic that’s causing some heated debate over on the teacher training forum is the methodology of Dogme. This has been a topic that’s divided people since it was first mentioned by Scott Thornbury in the 1990s. Many, myself included, question the practicability of a teaching style based entirely on spontaneity. As nice as it […]

1 Comment »
Posted to » dogme, methodology
Tags: ,
April 25th, 2008

PPP for Dummies

The PPP Approach to Communicative Language TeachingPPP (or the ‘3Ps’) stands for Presentation, Practice and Production - a common approach and commonly taught on 4-week courses approach to communicative language teaching that works through the progression of three sequenced stages.
PRESENTATION
Presentation represents the introduction to a lesson, and necessarily requires the creation of a realistic (or realisticish) ’situation’ requiring the target language to […]

No Comments »
Posted to » methodology, presentation practice production
Tags:
April 24th, 2008

Task-Based Learning for Dummies

Task-Based Learning: A Review
Written by Bilgen TOSUN
1. HISTORICAL POSITION OF TASK-BASED LEARNING
As Willis(1996) suggests before eighties the P.P.P. model of language teaching is the traditional way of learning- teaching activity. It is based on presentation […]

No Comments »
Posted to » methodology, task-based learning
Tags: ,