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what is the natural approach ?

background

In 1977, Tracy Tarrel a teacher Spanish in California outlined a proposal for a new philosophy of language teaching which he called the Natural Approach.

He joined with Stephen Krashen an applied linguist at the University of Southern California, in elaborating a theoretical rationale for the NA, drawing on Krashen’s influential theory of second language acquisition. They were combined statement of the principles and practices of the NA appeared in their book The Natural Approach, in 1983.

THEORY OF LEARNING

b. Particular emphasizs is laid on language as a set of messages that can be understood

Theory of language:

a. The communicative view of language is the view behind the natural approach.

THE NATURAL APPROACH IN THE CLASSROOM

The Natural Approach is designed to develop basic communication skills. The development stages are :

a.Comprehension (preproduction), b.Early Production, and c.Speech Emergence.

This approach to teaching language has been proven to be particularly effective with limited English proficient students.

A.PREPODUCTION

In order to maximize opportunities for comprehension experiences. natural approach intruction ;

1.create activities designed to teach student to recognize the meaning in words used in meanigful contexts,2. teach students to guess at the meanig of phrases without knowing all of the words and structure of the senteces.

B. EARLY SPEECH

• The students do not force production,

• The students begin using english words to give;

a.Yes/no answerb.One-word answerc.List of wordsd.Short pharses/ senteces

speech production will normally improve in both quatntity and quallity.

a. preference rankingb. games of all sortsc. problem-solving using charts, tables graphs, mapsd. advertisements and signse. group discussionf. skits (finger plays, flannel boards, puppets)g. music, radio, television, film strips, slidesh. writing exercises (especially Language Experience Approach)i. readingj. culture

In general, we may classify

CONCLUTIONS

The natural approach belongs to a traditional of language teaching method based on observation and interprestation of how learners acquire both firts and second language in nonformal setting. Such methods reject the formal ( grammatical ) organization of language as prerequisite to teaching.

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