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LG 228 WEEK 2. Why, Who, How…………………. Why Study English?. International Language? Chinese, Arabic, Spanish. Travelling Making Friends Music Reading Study……………………………. The World Of English. Why English Latin French Esperanto Klingon Dominant ELF, English as a Lingua Franca How Many?
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LG 228 WEEK 2 Why, Who, How…………………..
Why Study English? • International Language? • Chinese, Arabic, Spanish. • Travelling • Making Friends • Music • Reading • Study…………………………….
The World Of English • Why English • Latin • French • Esperanto • Klingon • Dominant ELF, English as a Lingua Franca • How Many? • Native Speakers
Whose English? • British • American • Good and Bad and Punishment • Your English • The Internet • Killer Languages
How do people learn a language? • L1 and L2 • Mother Tongue • Mother’s knee…. • Acquiring and Learning • i + 1 • Grammar Translation, Direct Method, Situational, Audio-lingualism, Structural, • Lexical, PPP, Communicative, Task Based, Mainstream,….aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
4 Big Ones……. • Grammar Translation. 19th.C. Monolingual, writing and translating, no speaking, still with us. • The Direct Method 1900 +, direct teaching, spoken, teach the language not about the language. • Audio-lingualismBehaviourism and salivating dogs. Listen>Speak; don’t explain, demonstrate. • The Communicative Approach. Meaning in communication, interaction, language in context; World Domination. • [Harmer, J. 2007. Chapter 1.