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English Language Teaching Methods English Medium

Handwritten notes on teaching English as a second language — principles, the four skills, teaching prose, poetry, grammar and composition, the major approaches and methods, and evaluation.

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Chapter 1 Pass English Medium English Language Teaching Methods Principles of Second Language Teaching English language teaching handwritten notes on the principles of second language teaching — how a second language differs from the mother tongue, selection with its criteria of frequency, range, availability, coverage, learnability and teachability, gradation through grouping and sequencing with the four kinds of grouping, the classroom principles of habit formation, concreteness, oral approach and proportion, the position of English in India and the three-language formula, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium English Language Teaching Methods The Four Language Skills English language teaching handwritten notes on the four skills — listening, speaking, reading and writing classified as receptive and productive, the natural L S R W order, hearing against listening, intensive and extensive listening and reading, fluency against accuracy, role-play and oral composition, loud against silent reading, skimming and scanning, the SQ3R technique with its three Rs, and the three stages of composition from controlled through guided to free writing, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium English Language Teaching Methods Teaching Prose, Poetry, Grammar & Composition English language teaching handwritten notes on teaching the four language forms — the aims and full step-by-step method of a prose lesson, the aims of poetry at junior and senior levels with the steps of a poetry lesson and what must never be done, formal against functional grammar and the inductive against the deductive method, and composition taught through oral work and the three stages of controlled, guided and free writing, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 4 Pass English Medium English Language Teaching Methods Approaches & Methods of ELT English language teaching handwritten notes on the approaches and methods of ELT — the distinction between approach, method and technique, the Grammar-Translation Method with its deductive grammar and sentence as the basic unit, the Direct Method teaching concrete words by demonstration and abstract words by association, the Structural Approach with its graded structures and substitution tables, the Audio-Lingual Method with drilling, dialogues and over-learning, and Communicative Language Teaching with communicative competence and its four-stage activity sequence, with a comparison table, flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 5 Pass English Medium English Language Teaching Methods Evaluation in English Language English language teaching handwritten notes on evaluation — measurement, assessment and evaluation distinguished, placement, diagnostic, formative and summative tests, achievement against proficiency, continuous and comprehensive evaluation, remedial teaching, the qualities of a good test with validity and reliability explained, the blueprint, objective short-answer and essay items with their strengths and weaknesses, and how to test each of the four skills validly, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 6 English Medium English Language Teaching Methods Teaching Models & Lesson Planning English teaching handwritten notes on models of teaching and lesson planning — Joyce and Weil’s four families and the four elements of a model, the Advance Organizer model of Ausubel, Suchman’s Inquiry Training, Group Investigation and Rogers’ Non-Directive teaching with all their phases, the learning theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, Bruner and Gardner, cooperative learning with its five elements and techniques, Bloom’s taxonomy in its original and revised forms, the Herbartian steps and the parts of a lesson plan, teaching-learning material and Dale’s Cone of Experience, and micro-teaching with its cycle and core skills, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 7 Pass English Medium English Language Teaching Methods ICT in Language Teaching English teaching handwritten notes on ICT in language teaching — what information and communication technology means and what it gives a language class, the hardware from the language laboratory to the smart board and the kinds of educational software, CALL and MALL with Warschauer’s three phases and the computer as tutor, stimulus and tool, synchronous and asynchronous communication, blended and flipped learning and the virtual classroom, the Indian platforms SWAYAM, SWAYAM PRABHA, DIKSHA, e-PATHSHALA and NISHTHA, and what the ICT policy and NEP 2020 require, with the TPACK and SAMR frameworks, flashcards and practice questions. Open map