English Didactics I

Week 5 - Review February 20/22 Topic: Desuggestopedia or Suggestopedia It is a method of teaching a foreign language, in which students learn quickly by feeling relaxed, interested, and positive. YL: Young Learners                                                                                                                                      VYL: Very young learners The development of this method is quite simple with different steps: Greeting Instruction (Short Commands) Have fun (Races) competitions.  S: Good for young learners W: Lots of distractions O: Good way to teach vocabulary and short commands T: Too noisy, you can disrupt the surrounding c...

Week 4 - Review February 13/15 We had the pleasure of using a mood cube to create sentences with the direct method thanks to the visual aid, and we also put the GTM method into practice, by translating a song and poem,  similar to last week, in class, we practiced the methods to better understand how small exercises can help us to understand and use the language.  DM GTM During this week we got to know the Silent Way method   it is based on the idea that language learning can be enhanced in three main ways: discovery rather than teaching; problem-solving in the target language; and the use of physical tools.  Every teaching method the silent way method has its own way of development, with its main principles and techniques to be developed in the classroom. Main Principles: Start with familiar sounds. Allow students to use their own Knowledge of language learning. Student attention to the teacher is important. Errors are important and necessary for learning. Tran...

Week 3 - Review February 06/08  During this week, we finished the topic of the direct method and GTM, but only after creating a table of the differences between these two methods, which is as follows. The approach of each method although it may seem similar, if you can find their differences, it also depends a lot on how that method is taught. Well, now we will talk about a new method, a method that would be one of my favorites so far as it is more entertaining because it includes the previous methods which creates a more practical, visual, and dynamic teaching. The audiolingual method seems to me a very practical method to use key words as well as repetition because it encourages the practice of listening and speaking which helps a lot to comprehension, besides being dynamic, it creates more confidence with the students, without omitting any previous method.  During the class we do different examples that can be used in this audiolingual method, among them, personal pres...

Week 2 - Review  January 30th/ February 1st During this week we had a small review of two important methods of didactics or teaching, we discussed the points of the direct method and the grammar-translation method. Something curious about these methods is that one is known as the natural method and is often used in teaching foreign languages since this method is the closest that every human being has access to learning a language when he/she is born (DM). To better understand this, we had 3 questions: What is your way of learning grammar? How do you practice your listening skills? How important are colorful visual aids for you? (In the learning process) Questions helped us understand that each person has different learning and approaches when learning something new, in this case, a language. It is important to highlight that the grammar translation method is deductively or deductively and with more rules therefore the direct method is more effective when you start learning a n...