Sabtu, 17 April 2010

Communicative approach

Communicative approach
Communicative approach is the purpose of applying broadly of Communicative Language Teaching by making communicative competence the goal of language teaching and by acknowledges the interdependence of language and communication.
Communication is a process: knowledge of the forms of language is insufficient.
With communicative approach, the students is hoped to enable of communication in the target language. So, the students need knowledge of the linguistics forms, meanings, and functions.
The most obvious characteristics of CLT is that almost everything that is done is with a communicative event.

Total Physical Response

Total Physical Response
This method is emphasizing on students to receive the meaning of target language easily. The teacher uses the target language communicatively when the instruction is started, and the students have to listen to him carefully.
The teacher uses pictures and occasional words to help the students more understanding the meaning of the target language.
The purpose of TPR is to decrease the people which feel stress when studying foreign language.
The teacher is the director of all student behavior. The students are imitators of his nonverbal model.
The first phase of a lesson is one of modeling. The instructor issues commands to a few students, then performs the action with them. In the second phase, these same students demonstrate that they can understand the commands by performing them alone.
The interaction of the teacher and the students is characterized by the teacher speaking and the students responding nonverbally. Students can learn by watching to each other.

Minggu, 04 April 2010

Desuggestopedia and Community Language Learning

Desuggestopedia and Community Language Learning

Desuggestopedia

Desuggestopedia is the method to help students eliminate the feeling that they cannot be successful or the negative association they may have toward studying. Desuggestopedia also help the students overcome the barriers to learning.
This method is used to make English learning more communicative for the student everyday. This is done by desuggesting the psychological barriers learners to bring with them to the learning situation and using techniques to activate the ‘paraconscious’ part of the mind, just below the fully-conscious mind.
The teacher is the most important part in the classroom. So, the students have to believe and respect her. The information from someone will be retained by the students and they will be more responsive to he desuggesting their suggesting that how easy it will be for them to succeed.
The teacher makes interactions with the whole group of students and individuals right from the beginning of language learning. This method is making the student feeling fun, confident, and enjoyable.






Community Language Learning

This method is considered the students as a ‘whole person’. It is means that the teacher has to understand their student’s personally.
By understanding student’s fear and being sensitive to them, she can help the students overcome their negative feelings and turn them into positive energy to further their learning.
In language learning, the ability of student to accept knowledge is depending on their conditions. Such as, their feelings, physical reactions, instinctive protection reaction, and desire to learn.
It doesn’t mean that the teacher is a therapist or the teacher doesn’t teaching. But, it means that the teacher recognizes how threatening a new learning situation to makes her students skillfully understands and supports his students in their struggle to master target language.
The teacher focuses on the language and being supportive of students in their learning process.