History of Language Teaching by Michelle Girón

Vocabulary

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Word by word in isolation with their literal translation to the other language

Grammar

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Memorization of list of verbs in the different tenses and inflections, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives and prepositions.

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The person transferring their knowledge was called Informants.

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The Traditional Method based on Grammar and Translation, was used for train other people who needed to move to another countries to find opportunities, also it was used by housewives to train their servants in English so they can transfer the orders to the rest of servants.

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At the end of WWI, people migrated to other countries and the need of learning other language was very necessary. Only the Traditional Method existed and was used for the English Teachers.

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English was not a popular language.

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In Latinamerican was taught French as it was the Language of Diplomacy

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Private Schools used to teach french as a part of the regular educational program of the goverment.

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Universities taught French as Language of Higher Education and Latin as the language of Science.

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Again, chaos was in Europe, but everything was developing faster. They needed to consider which language was more important, in this case, English.

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It was a must to develope a method and material to teach languages efficiently in a shorter time.

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The Goverment of the United States of America through the Armed Forces gave a lot of support to this Science.

They became teachers of foreing languages and adapted the method to teach English: Teach English as a Second Language.

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T.E.S.L. is the methodology to teach English in the country where English is spoken. This way the students are exposed, all the time, to the language they are learning.

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It took several years before give this method a use. Profession of Language Teaching became recognized as a science.

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During the 1950's and 1960's, Universities hired experienced teachers to beging Language Department.

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They developed a method. It was called The Direct Method based on the idea that a child learns his own language without Grammar or Translation only by Imitation.

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For this methodology, flipcards, audio-visual material, books, slides, audio tapes, and other materiales were developed and massively produced so far was to Teach English as a Second Language (T.E.S.L)

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The methodology was not as succesfull as expected in countries where English was not the native language

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The Oral Structure Approach, it is based on the Oral of the Direct Method and the Grammar of the Traditional Method.

Order of factors

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First, students are exposed to the sound and the production of sounds in words then in complete statements at the level of the students. Using didactic material.

Second, students learn the word order and the spelling.

Third, teacher explains new grammar objectives using non-techical vocabulary.