The Eclectic Approach
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL EXPERIMENTAL
“FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA”
CORO EDO. FALCÓN
PROGRAMA: EDUCACIÓN LENGUAS EXTRANJERAS. MENCIÓN INGLÉS
UNIDAD CURRICULAR: APPLIED LINGUISTICS
ECLECTIC METHOD
BACHILLER:
Chirino Daniel
Baldallo José
SANTA ANA DE CORO; OCTOBER 11TH; 2013
INTRODUCTION
When it is time to teach a foreign language, teachers have a variety of approaches, methods and techniques they can choose to make learning and teaching process successful. Each approach, method and technique can help educators to reach their goal, depending on what they want to make students accomplish. Therefore, Teachers must have clear what are the purposes they want to achieve, as well as, the aims of the lesson and activities they are going to do in the classroom.
However, teachers think that it is not possible to teach foreign languages in just one single way, since every approach has limitations. As a result, a new method came to light, the Eclectic Approach, which is the one is going to be explain in this assignment, was proposed as a reaction to the profusion of teaching methods in 1970s and 1980s and the dogmatism often found in the application of these methods.
ECLECTIC METHOD
1. THEORETICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE METHOD.
According to Saqid (2012) the word eclectic can be defined as selecting or choosing from various sources. In the field education, especially in teaching language, it refers to a kind of method. This method was advocated in the beginning of 1990’s and became fashionably popular these days. Rivers (1981), who is the main proponent of this method, points out that the eclectic approach allows teacher “to absorb the best techniques of all the well known language teaching methods into their classroom procedures, using them for the purposes for which they are most appropriate”. That is, the eclectic is composed of material gathered from various systems, doctrines, or sources; and it simply utilizes the best of all educational
“FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA”
CORO EDO. FALCÓN
PROGRAMA: EDUCACIÓN LENGUAS EXTRANJERAS. MENCIÓN INGLÉS
UNIDAD CURRICULAR: APPLIED LINGUISTICS
ECLECTIC METHOD
BACHILLER:
Chirino Daniel
Baldallo José
SANTA ANA DE CORO; OCTOBER 11TH; 2013
INTRODUCTION
When it is time to teach a foreign language, teachers have a variety of approaches, methods and techniques they can choose to make learning and teaching process successful. Each approach, method and technique can help educators to reach their goal, depending on what they want to make students accomplish. Therefore, Teachers must have clear what are the purposes they want to achieve, as well as, the aims of the lesson and activities they are going to do in the classroom.
However, teachers think that it is not possible to teach foreign languages in just one single way, since every approach has limitations. As a result, a new method came to light, the Eclectic Approach, which is the one is going to be explain in this assignment, was proposed as a reaction to the profusion of teaching methods in 1970s and 1980s and the dogmatism often found in the application of these methods.
ECLECTIC METHOD
1. THEORETICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE METHOD.
According to Saqid (2012) the word eclectic can be defined as selecting or choosing from various sources. In the field education, especially in teaching language, it refers to a kind of method. This method was advocated in the beginning of 1990’s and became fashionably popular these days. Rivers (1981), who is the main proponent of this method, points out that the eclectic approach allows teacher “to absorb the best techniques of all the well known language teaching methods into their classroom procedures, using them for the purposes for which they are most appropriate”. That is, the eclectic is composed of material gathered from various systems, doctrines, or sources; and it simply utilizes the best of all educational
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