CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Communicative language teaching began in Britain in the 1960s as a replacement to the earlier structural method, called “Situational Language Teaching”. The term was coined by Dell Hymes, reacting against the perceived inadequacy of Noam Chomsky’s distinction between competence and performance [5].

Detailed explanation-2: -It replaced ‘structural teaching’ because it basically relies on making learners masters the structure or pattern of sentences which makes the learning process dull and boring. Structured teaching is an approach in instructing children with autism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hence, it could be concluded that the grammar-translation method is the oldest teaching method of English in India. This method emphasizes both listening and speaking and gives importance to the accuracy of pronunciation and grammar. In this method, the classroom interaction is done exclusively on the target language.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Oral Approach or Situational Language Teaching is based on a structural view of language. Speech, structures and a focus on a set of basic vocabulary items are seen as the basis of language teaching. This was a view similar to that held by American structuralists, such as Fries.

Detailed explanation-5: -The communicative approach is based on the idea that learning language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning. When learners are involved in real communication, their natural strategies for language acquisition will be used, and this will allow them to learn to use the language.