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Download full textZhou, Li-na – Online Submission, 2010
This paper analyses the major approaches in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) vocabulary teaching from historical perspective and puts forward multi-dimensional vocabulary teaching mode for college English. The author stresses that multi-dimensional approaches of communicative vocabulary teaching, lexical phrase teaching method, the grammar…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Second Language Programs
Castro, Ruben – Online Submission, 2010
This study evaluated the effectiveness of Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS[TM]) compared to the Grammar-Translation approach for acquiring and retaining new vocabulary in an English as a Second Language (ESL) class. The subjects were adult Hispanic learners with limited literacy. An experimental design approach was used to gather…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Ebrahimi, Pouria – Online Submission, 2008
As with language teaching and learning, many factors are at work disregarding of which makes teaching absolutely futile. This introspective paper shows that teaching is bound to many other factors not normally regarded within the framework many teachers apply. Practicality of teaching methods is highly dependent on the kind of learners; that is,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Huong, Phan Thi Thu – Online Submission, 2008
Vietnamese has to face a cross-culture issue with the teaching and learning of English as Vietnamese culture is "villagers' culture" which considers relationships in village as family relations and an emphasis "on hierarchical, social order in their dealings with one another" (Ellis, 1995: 9) with a traditional teaching method…
Descriptors: Grammar Translation Method, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Social Bias
Liu, Qing-xue; Shi, Jin-fang – Online Submission, 2007
Language teaching approaches and methods have cast light on the language teaching theory and practice. There are still many controversies about their usefulness and appropriateness. This paper tries to analyze their effectiveness and weakness of several most influential teaching approaches and methods: Grammar-translation Method, Direct Method,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Grammar Translation Method, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Morett, Laura – Online Submission, 2007
A mini-lesson in Spanish vocabulary was taught to undergraduates unfamiliar with the language using one of two predominant L2 teaching methodologies, the grammar-translation approach or the communicative approach. Both experimental groups showed significant improvement in learning the target language over the baseline measure set by the control…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
