The Nature of Approaches, Methods and Techniques
The Nature of Approaches, Methods and Techniques
The Nature of Approaches, Methods and Techniques
APPROACHES, METHODS
AND TECHNIQUES IN THE
LANGUAGE TEACHING
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY II
THE NATURE OF APPROACHES, METHODS
AND TECHNIQUES
In describing methods, the difference between a philosophy of lan-guage teaching at the level of theory and principles, and a set
of derived procedures for teaching a language, is central. In an attempt to clarify this difference, a scheme was proposed by the
American applied linguist Edward Anthony in 1963. He identified three levels of conceptualization and organization, which he
termed approach, method, and technique:
THE THE
THE STRUCTURAL
COMMUNICATIVE COMMUNICATIVE
VIEW OF
VIEW OF VIEW OF
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE LANGUAGE
THE STRUCTURAL VIEW OF
LANGUAGE
language is a system of
structurally related
elements for the coding phonological units (e.g.,phonemes),
of meaning.
grammatical units (e.g., clauses, phrases,
sentences), grammatical operations
The target of language (e.g., adding, shifting, joining, or
learning is seen to be the transforming elements), and lexical
mastery of elements of
this system items (e.g., function words and structure
words).
THE FUNCTIONAL VIEW OF
LANGUAGE
THE INTERACTIONAL
VIEW OF LANGUAGE