The Grammar Translation Method - Dimas Morales

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DIMAS MORALES

THE GRAMMAR

TRANSLATION

METHOD


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The Grammar

Translation Method


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Latin and Ancient Greek are known as deadlanguages, based on the fact that people no

longer speak them for the purpose of interactive

communication. Yet they are still acknowledged

as important languages to learn (especiallyLatin) for the purpose of gaining access to

classical literature, and up until fairly recently, for

the kinds of grammar training that led to the

mental dexterity considered so important in

any higher education study stream.(Orrieux,

2007)


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What is Grammar-translation method?

What is Grammar Translation about?

What are the benefices of Grammar-translation method?

Reached Conclusions:


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What is Grammar-translation

method?


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The grammar translation method is a

method of teaching foreign languages

derived from the classical (sometimes

called traditional) method of teachingGreek and Latin. In grammar-translation

classes, students learn grammar rules and

then apply those rules by translatingsentences between the target language

and their native language.


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Advanced students may be required to

translate whole texts word-for-word. The

method has two main goals: to enable

students to read and translate literaturewritten in the target language, and to

further students general intellectual

development.(Wikipedia, 2013)


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What is Grammar translation

about?


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It is true that, over the years, many

different methods and approaches to the

teaching and learning of language to andby speakers of other languages (SOL),

each with its own underlying theoretical

basis, have come and gone.


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The structure-based grammar

translation method, as its name suggests,

relied heavily on teaching grammar and

practicing translation as its main teachingand learning activities. The major focus of

this method tended to be on reading and

writing, with relatively little attention paid tospeaking and listening.


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Vocabulary was typically taught in lists,and a high priority given to accuracy, and

the ability to construct correct sentences.

Consideration of what students might do topromote their own learning had little or no

place in grammar translation theory, which

tended to assume that, if students simplyfollowed the method, learning would result

as a matter of course. (Parr, 2001)


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What are the benefices of

Grammar-translation method?


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The grammar translation methodinstructs students in grammar, and

provides vocabulary with direct

translations to memorize. It was thepredominant method in Europe in the 19th

century. Most instructors now

acknowledge that this method isineffective by itself.


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It is now most commonly used in the

traditional instruction of the classical

languages, however it remains the mostcommonly practiced method of English

teaching in Japan.


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At school, the teaching of grammar

consists of a process of training in the

rules of a language which must make it

possible to all the students to correctly

express their opinion, to understand the

remarks which are addressed to them and

to analyze the texts which they read.


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The objective is that by the time they

leave college, the pupil controls the tools

of the language which are the vocabulary,

grammar and the orthography, to be ableto read, understand and write texts in

various contexts.


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The teaching of grammar examines

texts, and develops awareness that

language constitutes a system which can

be analyzed. This knowledge is acquiredgradually, by traversing the facts of

language and the syntactic mechanisms,

going from simplest to the most complex.(Hall, 2011)


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Grammatical terminology serves this

objective. Grammar makes it possible for

each one to understand how the mother

tongue functions, in order to give him thecapacity to communicate its thought.


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