By

Esmeralda Arredondo Camín

Principles

Grammar translation fromand to the mother-tongue

of the learner.

Languages are fundamentally universal.

Translation is the bestdevice.

Develop the intellect of thechild instead their language

faculties.

Native students are themedium of instruction.

Skills

Reading

Writing

Areas of Language

Vocabulary (bilingual wordlists or dictionary)

The sentence is the unit of teaching and language

practice.

Grammar is taughtdeductively.

Activities

ComprehensionQuestions

Questions to test thestudents’ comprehension

of the text.

Questions whoseanswers are not in the

text, but which call uponthe students’ deduction.

Questions which link thepassage to the learner’s

own experience.

Fill in the blanks Memorization Composition Antonyms/Synonyms Cognates

The students are taughtand required to

memorize specific soundpatterns.

Procedure

The class reads a textwritten in the target

language.

Students translate thepassage to theirmother-tongue.

Students translate new words from the target

language to theirmother-tongue.

Students are given a grammar rule and they

practice with it.

Students memorizevocabulary.

Teacher asks studentsto state the grammar

rule.

Students memorizethe rule and reproduce

it.

Errors are corrected byproviding the right

answers.

Kind of exercises

DictationEssays inspired

in a specific topic

ReadingSentenceformation

References

• C. Richards, Jack, S. Rodgers, Theodore. “Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching”.Cambridge: Cambrigde University Press, 1986.

• Fundación Antonio de Nebrija. “Historia de la Metodología de Lenguas Extranjeras.” Madrid: Fundación Antonio de Nebrija, 1997.

• C. Mukalel, Joseph. “Approaches to EnglishLanguage Teaching.” Delhi: Discovery Publishing House, 1998.