Strategies In Learning Of A Foreign Language
When a person decides to learn a foreign language is very common to be taught all the grammatical and linguistic components that conform a language, but in this study plan is not included the teaching of culture as part of the training of language.
When we are studying a second language, we must take into account that the language is not just grammatical and structure rules, it is also part of a culture, which means language is culture and culture is language. In other words the language reflects culture.
For this reason I think the communicative approach is the most adequate method in the teaching of a second language. It is most flexible because making error is a part of the learning process; it is centered in the needs of the learners and in the development of the four communicative skills of the language (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and the most important, for me, all the sociocultural components that form part of the language as the context in where is used the target language, the objects of linguistics discussion, their and beliefs and so son.
The communicative approach also let the teacher use a large number of activities in a creative and dynamic way to keep the students motivated and the participation is fluid.
Some activities that can be use with this approach are relationed with real situation in which a person needs to use a foreign language, for example, in the airport, a bus stop, in a restaurant, in a business travel. At the same time all these activities can be developed through different strategies such as role plays, dramatization, reading section, made forums, visual and auditive tools in where we use text, magazines, newspapers and any document that is relationed with the language and its culture.
One of the strategies that I would use to develop a class is to create a environment in which the student feel more in contact with tha language an its culture. That is creating a similar context in a real situation, for example in a restaurant or a café where the students is in contact with a common situation with a real dialogue.
In these activities the student is using some common expressions use in a specific case in order to develop the communicative skill, the grammar and at the same time he/she is acquire new vocabulary.
I think that each teacher has a different way to teach and develop his class and the communicative approach makes that teaching a second language be more didactic, creative and original.
When a person decides to learn a foreign language is very common to be taught all the grammatical and linguistic components that conform a language, but in this study plan is not included the teaching of culture as part of the training of language.
When we are studying a second language, we must take into account that the language is not just grammatical and structure rules, it is also part of a culture, which means language is culture and culture is language. In other words the language reflects culture.
For this reason I think the communicative approach is the most adequate method in the teaching of a second language. It is most flexible because making error is a part of the learning process; it is centered in the needs of the learners and in the development of the four communicative skills of the language (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and the most important, for me, all the sociocultural components that form part of the language as the context in where is used the target language, the objects of linguistics discussion, their and beliefs and so son.
The communicative approach also let the teacher use a large number of activities in a creative and dynamic way to keep the students motivated and the participation is fluid.
Some activities that can be use with this approach are relationed with real situation in which a person needs to use a foreign language, for example, in the airport, a bus stop, in a restaurant, in a business travel. At the same time all these activities can be developed through different strategies such as role plays, dramatization, reading section, made forums, visual and auditive tools in where we use text, magazines, newspapers and any document that is relationed with the language and its culture.
One of the strategies that I would use to develop a class is to create a environment in which the student feel more in contact with tha language an its culture. That is creating a similar context in a real situation, for example in a restaurant or a café where the students is in contact with a common situation with a real dialogue.
In these activities the student is using some common expressions use in a specific case in order to develop the communicative skill, the grammar and at the same time he/she is acquire new vocabulary.
I think that each teacher has a different way to teach and develop his class and the communicative approach makes that teaching a second language be more didactic, creative and original.
