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Principal tenets:
- Teaching grammar inductively.
- Literacy development.
- Translation to L1.
- Vocabulary memorization.
Theoretical foundation:
Based on behaviorism. The teacher receives the central attention.
Positive aspect:
Grammar and vocabulary (sub-skills) improve.
Negative aspect:
It only focuses on literacy skills.
Activity:
Synonyms and antonyms of the following words:
-Beautiful
-Dangerous
-Amazing
-Erase
-Parade

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Principal tenets:
- Focus on oral pronunciation.
- Study of idioms and conversation phrases.
- Vocabulary taught using realia & pictures.
- Grammar inductive learning.
- Total immersion in L2.
Theoretical foundation:
According to the direct method, students learn better when they speak and also when they listen.
Positive aspect:
Pronunciation improves
Negative aspect:
Grammar and vocabulary are not main focus.
Activity:
Read aloud a paragraph from the book "The old man and the sea", by Ernest Hemmingway.

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Principal tenets:
- Vocaband grammar control
- Focuson spoken language
- L2 immersion
- Direct grammar instruction
- Situational and contextual vocab teaching
Theoretical foundation
Based on behaviorism and structuralism.
Positive aspects
Students develop the oral skills accurately.
Negative aspects
Reading are writing skills are not as important as the oral skills.
Instructional sequence:
Listening, Repeating, Responding, Drilling exercise.

Activity:
Students will hear a dialogue (introducing yourself). The class will be divided in halves. One half will have to repeat it after the teacher. The other half will write down the whole dialogue.

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Principal tenets:
- Communication skills include using the language with fluently, appropriately, and accurately.
- Learners must be exposed to and interact constantly in the target language.
- The teacher acts as a guide and a facilitator or instructor.

- The activities performed should have a communicative purpose.

Theoretical foundation
- Based on Social Constructivism and socio-linguistics learning theories.

Positive aspect:
Learner-Oriented.

Negative aspect:
Lack of Errors Reduction.

Activity:
The class will be divided into groups of 3, the teacher will assign a role to each student and they will have to act out a scene with the assigned roles. Students will have 30 seconds to act out the scene.