2013 Fall Semester- Week 2

Introduction

 1. It was called the Classical Methods.

 2. It was used to help students to read and appreciate foreign language literature.

 3. It was hoped to help students become familiar with the grammar of their native language through the study of target language grammar.

Experience (1)

 1. Reading a passage: The Boys’ Ambition from Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi  2. Read aloud and translate into native language (Spanish)  3. Answer the comprehension questions  4. Answer the inference questions  5. Reading the questions and answer them

Experience (2)

 6. Vocabulary instruction  7. Opposite word learning  8. Instruction of cognate  9. Grammar instruction: two-word verbs  10. Word and idiom learning

Experience (3)

 11. Translate the reading passage into native language  12. State the rules of two-word verbs  13. Doing exercises of grammar  14. Write a composition in the target language about an ambition they have  15. Memorize the vocabulary items and write sentences of the for them  16. A quiz on grammar, vocabulary, and translation

Thinking about the experience(1)

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Principles:

 1. The ability to communicate in the target language is not a goal of foreign language instruction.

 2. The primary skills to be developed are reading and writing. Little attention is given to speaking and listening, and almost none to pronunciation.

 3. The teacher is the authority in the classroom. It is very important that students get the correct answer.

Thinking about the experience (2)

 4. It is possible to find native language equivalents for all target language words.

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Learning language.

is facilitated through attention to similarities between the target language and the native  6. It is important for students to learn about the form of the target language.

Thinking about the experience (3)

 7. Deductive application of an explicit grammar rule is a useful pedagogical technique.

 8. Language learning provides good mental exercise.

 9. Students should be conscious of the grammatical rules of the target language.

 10. Wherever possible, verb conjugations and other grammatical paradigms should be committed to memory.

Review the principles and techniques

 Answer the 10 questions based on the observation of techniques and principles  9 techniques are reviewed: translation of a literary message, reading comprehension questions, antonyms/ synonyms, cognates, deductive application of rules, fill-in-the-blanks exercise, memorization, use word in sentences, composition

Conclusion and Activities

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Conclusion

: Is translation a valuable exercise?

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Activities:

 1. Check your understanding of the Grammar Translation Method?

 2. Apply What you have understood about the Grammar-Translation method.

Home work for week 2

 1. e-portfolio: Life journal- selecting three important principles from the PPT  2. e-portfolio: wiki- Grammar Translation Method  3. e-portfolio: picture- upload the picture of Professor Diane Larsen-Freeman