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Berlitz method
*Author:Maximilian Berlitz
*Approach:Natural
*Characteristics:This method is based on the natural form
in which a child learns his mother tongue
*Teacher's role:Guide
*Student's role:Active and participative -
Direct method
*Author:Maximilian Berlitz
*Approach:Natural
*characteristics:The method to teach a language is through demonstrations and actions of what we want to teach
*Teacher´s role: Active
*student´s role:Active -
Situational method
*Author:Harold Palmer, Hornby y Pittman
*Approach:Structural
*Characteristics:Language was taught through structures used in contexts or situations.
*student's role:Active
*Teacher's role:Active -
Grammatical translation method
*Author:Frederick the Great
*Approach:traditional
*Characteristics:Learning grammar rules and their application in the translation of words or sentences from one language to another.
*Teacher´s Role: active
*student´s role: pasive -
LINGUISTIC AUDIO METHOD
*Author:Bloomfield y Charles Fries
*Approach: structural
*Characteristics:Students listened, repeated and memorized recordings of dialogues made by natives.
*teacher's role:Active
* Student's role:Pasive -
Audiovisual method
*Author:Luis Grandía
*Approach:Structural
*Characteristics:Give priority to oral language
before the writing. The oral language is always presented accompanied by an image that the represents
*student's role:Active
*Teacher's role:Active -
Total physical response
*Author: James Asher
*Approach:Humanistic
*Characteristics:It suggests that when we learn a language, we do it through a process of code decryption
*Teacher's role:Active
*Student's role:Active -
Silence method
*Author:Caleb Gattegno
*Approach:humanistic
*Characteristics:use of silence as a teaching technique
*Teacher's role:supervisor
*Student's role:Active -
Sugestopedia
*Author: Georgi Lozanoz
*Approach:humanistic
*characteristics:The main objective of Sugestopedia is to take advantage of the mental potential of students in order to accelerate the process by which they learn to understand and use
a language
*Teacher´s role: Active
*student´s role:Active -
Communicative method
*Author:Piepho
*Approach:communicative
*Characteristics:The student uses the language in a variety of contexts.
*student's role:Active
*Teacher's role:Active
