2007年5月20日日曜日

Two approaches for teaching vocabulary

Today we learned about two approaches for teaching vocabulary: the present and learn and the Learning through Input Approach. You can see a PowerPoint presentation of the approaches here. I would like to tell you about the strengths and weaknesses of each approach as well as the approach I would use as a Junior High School English teacher.

1. The present and learn
☆Strengths☆
・ The English class use this approach will go smoothly, because students can understand easily what their teacher tell them and play that is instructed by teacher immediately.
・ Students can practice correct pronunciation.

☆Weaknesses☆
・ The class use this approach may be one-way lesson. If so, students will receive the class passively.
・ Students can't improve their skill of thinking, because teacher tell them the meaning of new words before students think and find the answer.
・ Students will be easy to feel hesitation new words when they encounter unknown vacabulary for the first time.

2. the learning through input approach
☆Strengths☆
・ Students is easy to memorize new vocabulary, because the vocabulary is learned through their experience.
・ Students will be able to feel pleasure, because they can find the answer themselves.
・ They can act independently.(They can have own image about new vocabulary.)
・ They are easy to hold their concentration, because they keep guessing and understanding.

☆Weaknesses☆
・ If the class is too fast, some students will not be able to follow the class, because every students have different thinking speed.
・ The understanding gap arise between students who good at English and who is not so.

Lastly as a junior high school English teacher I want to make the most of the good points two approach have and I'd like to use a hybrid.

4 件のコメント:

Keichan さんのコメント...

Misato, thank you for your comment on my blog.
Now, you made good suggestions about the approaches. I think, as you wrote, if I would use the 1st approach, the class would be passive and not be interesting. But I also think it is important for students to learn the new language in this way. So I want to be a teacher who uses both approaches combined into a class well, you know.

JH さんのコメント...

Micche,
Good points. Do you think there is a way to help students who are not as good at English keep up with the learning through input approach?
JH

micchan さんのコメント...

Hi, micche!
Your ideas so good, especially each weakpoints!
Thank you for interesting and imaginative ideas.

micchan

mayuchan さんのコメント...

Hi, Misato! This is Mayuchan. I agree with your ideas. Espesially, I don' t think out about correct pronounciation, so I was very satisfied. See you next class☆