History of Foreign Language Teaching methods and stages of its development

The role of the students’ native language

• The target language is used in the classroom, not the students’ native language.
• How is evaluation accomplished?
• Students might be asked to distinguish between words in a minimal pair, for example, or to supply an appropriate verb form in a sentence.

The role of instructional materials

• Instructional materials in the Audiolingual Method assist the teacher to develop language mastery in the learner. They are primarily teacher-oriented.
• Tape recorders and audiovisual equipment often have central roles in an audiolingual course.

The decline of Audioligualism

• Audiolingualism reached its period of most widespread use in the 1960s and was applied both to the teaching of foreign language in the United States and to the teaching of English as a second or foreign language.

Cinquain

• Cinquain — it’s a rhyme, which requires synthesis of information and materials in short statements allowing describing and reflecting the topic. Procedure: each learner is given 5-7 min to prepare cinquain then partners make one based on their own. It allows revising the topic critically and coincide different ideas. After pairs by introducing their cinquains provoke topic discussion.

Cinquain rules: cinquain poem

• 1st line – 1 word for introducing topic
• 2nd line – 2 words describing topic though adjectives
• 3rd line – 3 words for describing actions through verbs
• 4th line – 4 word phrase pointing attitude to the topic.
• 5th line - synonym of the topic key word

Sample

• Earth
• Beautiful, blue
• Live, produce, pollute
• Can be kind, can hurt
• Planet