Approches and Methods in Language Teaching,Materials Development in Language Teaching Research Papers (original) (raw)

The materials are developed for a group of students from Yogyakarta to prepare for their five day excursion in an English speaking country. The use of authentic materials for language input is considered to be beneficial for the learners in order to build sufficient schemata for target language use and to make them familiar with target culture. The topic of the lesson covered in the unit is market life. Using an integrated communicative approach which includes four macro skills and functional grammar focus, two types of tasks are developed: a listening task, as the source of comprehensible input and authentic materials, and " oral fluency practices " (Ur, 1996) which consist of several tasks such as : the repetition of the model sentence in presentation stage, reading aloud in the practice stage, and role play in the production stage. All of the materials fulfill what Brown (2007) describes as the role of material in communicative approach: they are authentic, task-based and facilitate language use.

In this workshop we aimed at presenting key factors to take into account when preparing or adapting languages teaching material for a mixed-abilities group.

Preface TEFL/TESOL Methodology 2 for Senior EFL Student Teachers is a teaching guide that is intended to complement (and build on) the previous TEFL/TESOL Methodology 1 course. In particular, it aims at acquainting senior (4th-year) EFL... more

This paper discussed the use of Hispanic poems as sources of Filipino culture and local historical data (directly or indirectly mentioned in the poems), in teaching regional culture (of Bicol) and history. The poems are originally written in Spanish language and are translated into English by Hornedo. The analysis employed qualitative-descriptive approach of literary criticism, anchored on the theory of New Historicism and formalist-contextualist approach. In particular, the analysis delved on the content rather than on form and structure. Findings revealed that the poems are good sources of information about the image of the places in terms of physical and cultural milieu. Furthermore, the poems were found to be reflective of reliable materials in understanding Bicol soil and of the way of life of its inhabitants. These findings suggest that literature and history be taught side by side with original materials from a certain locality that eventually unveil cultural identity.

- by Sherill A . Gilbas
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- Literature, Poetry, Philippine Literature, Local and regional history

The objectives of the research are to improve students' writing ability and to enrich the effective approach for the students in improving their writing ability. This is an experimental study conducted at Muhammadiyah University of Tangerang. The data were collected from 46 students as sample from 3 rd semester at Muhammadiyah University of Tangerang and they were divided into two classes, one class as the experiment group and the other one as the control group. The researcher used quasi experimental research design to get the data and the data are gathered through pretest and posttest of writing by using writing essay as the instrument of the research. Based on the result of t-test shows that tobserved (1.93) > (1.72) ttable. So, Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. Mean that, teaching writing by using cooperative learning technique was more effective than teaching writing using individual learning. In teaching writing, it is advisable for lecturers to learn the approach of cooperative and individual learning, but the lecturer should facilitate cooperative learning because it makes the students more motivated in the learning process.

approaches of comparative education.