Week Six: Pre-communicative and Alternative Methods
Week 6 of the course is based on methodologies that have been tried and tested in the past. I have been reading a book on ‘Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching’ by Richards and Rodgers for this particular week. The reading material gives an interesting insight into the strange and wonderful methods in the world of TEFL. My particular research is based on three methods that have made an important mark in the English language teaching: the Audio-Lingualism, the Lexical Approach, and the Situational Language Teaching.
The Diploma is going well for me and I have got used to being a student again! I now manage to do about fifteen hours of study every week for this demanding course. I have got my first lesson observation this Friday in which I must get my observation task sheet completed! I have decided [at the last minute] that my instrument would be based on Error Correction. My initial idea was going to be focused on lesson staging and linking but this would have required a lot more research into methodologies and the approaches taken by teachers during a lesson!
