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This review is from: The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom (Paperback)
This is a must-read for any foreign language teacher. It has helped me immensely as a teacher. Even though the book was written a while ago, it is all still relevant today.
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The author discusses theory in the first chapters and practice in the last chapters. I was more interested in theory, so the book seemed to diminuendo. For a reader who is more interested in practice, the book may seem to crescendo.
First, the author makes a quick overview of the history of second language education. It seems that the student's own language was barred from the classroom for the first time in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. If this is true, then most foreign language teachers today are 100 years behind the times. A Korean English teacher once told me that it was dangerous for foreign language students to practice conversation where there was no teacher or no native speaker to correct errors. I didn't have the documentation handy, so I couldn't tell her that students could do better without all that error correction anyway. Too bad I didn't have the documentation in this book. The author also summarizes schools of foreign language education other than his own baby. I have wondered how nouns could be taught in TPR (Total Physical Response), now I see that they are used as objects ("Put the book on the table"). The psychological method, the series method, the phonetic method, the direct method, and the audiolingual method are briefly defined.
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I was informally introduced to "natural method" of teaching foreign language this summer at grad school and wanted to find out more, so I bought this book. It is very informative and readable--you do not have to sort through educational jargon to comprehend the concepts. It does not claim to be exhaustive on the topic, and I think I may end up reading more elsewhere, but it does a great job explaining its methodology to someone quite new to the idea.
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