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This article tells about 4 New Approaches to Teaching English: Give the People What They Want!

at the beginning of the paragraph the article sounds like this,

Ever get tired of seeing the same old teaching routines?

I can still remember my old high school French lessons.

Every day our teacher served up the same menu: Memorizing verbs, answering worksheets, taking dictation and repeating, repeating, repeating.

But there's one problem.

That was 25 years ago!

The prevalence of social media and the internet as a whole have changed the way people learn languages ​​– for the better. It's imperative for modern language teachers to address the needs and interests of today's students.

- We move to the next paragraph

The next paragraph tells about, 4 New Methods of Teaching English in the Modern Classroom

While traditional methodologies such as the audio-lingual and direct methods still offer useful elements, they’re clearly outdated in the modern classroom. The communicative approach, which was in vogue in the late ’90s, is still widely considered as the latest advancement in modern language teaching. Most TESOL/TFLtrainingprograms still live and swear by it.

However, it has become clearly evident that the needs of modern students have outpaced teachers’ and book publishers’ best strategies.

This article will take a closer look at four fresh teaching strategies that are grand slam with students.

So this 4 Methods of Teaching English which this articel talk about,

1. Task-based Approach

Traditional curriculum design and class planning revolved around the topics considered useful for students. This meant students were to learn the grammar and vocabulary that educators thought students needed to know.

Student input was minimal to say the least.

What we learned from this is why it’s imperative to build lesson plans around activities that all students can feel comfortable with and relate to.

The task-based approach represents a significant paradigm shift since the focus on content has shifted to skills and competencies. So, planning and design aren’t about what’s taught, but why it’s taught.

This approach isolates individual skills and competencies in order to teach material students actually need to know to meet their goals and objectives.

Sample tasks could be ordering in a restaurant, booking a hotel room, or perhaps more advanced tasks like critiquing a movie or voicing their opinions about politics. In this approach, the language taught revolves around the task itself, not the other way around.

For this method to work, teachers must understand their students’ needs and expectations in order to design lessons that help their students succeed. Grammar, vocabulary and language skills are just the vehicles that enable students to achieve their final outcome.

 2. Project-based Approach

Much like the task-based approach, the project-based approach is meant to address students’ real needs by adapting language to the skills and competencies they truly need personally and/or professionally.

The application of this approach begins by determining the one, global objective that the individual or group of students have.

For example, if you’re teaching a business English class, you should look at why students are in the class to begin with and plan accordingly. One time when working for a corporate client, I taught a room full of accountants who were all vying for promotions up for grabs in their company.

3. Lexical Syllabus

While the previous two approaches focus heavily on the skills and competencies that students need to develop, this approach focuses on what language students actually need to produ

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator-english/new-methods-of-teaching-english/ce. In particular, the actual words that students need to understand in order to conduct specific tasks.

This approach is based upon the core language that students need to know given their needs. Again, professional students need very specific vocabulary pertaining to their field. For instance, “profit” is an essential term for business students, much the same way “scalpel” is to medical students.

Moreover, any other language taught outside of this core language is meant to be supplementary and intended to enable students’ communication within their respective fields. Topics such as movies and hobbies may take a back seat to things like booking a hotel or describing work experience. Nevertheless, there are common skills in all fields, such as saying your name or providing personal information.

4. Using Smartphones in the Classroom

Since just about everyone has some sort of internet access or data plan, banning smartphones may end up being a lost opportunity to further enhance learning experiences.

Love them or hate them, smartphones are a part of modern life. Many teachers consider them to be a distraction since most students hate to part with them. Is there a common ground?

Smartphones provide many useful tools for students such as dictionary, translator and grammar reference apps. Much like computers, students need to understand that their phones aren’t for play or personal use, but to be used as learning tools.

A great dictionary/translator/grammar reference tool is WordReference.com mobile app, available on Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store. Aside from translations, WordReference has a thesaurus, English dictionary and a forum where other users can comment on difficult words or expressions.

A good example of how smartphones enhance classroom learning is the scavenger hunt exercise.

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