Creative English

Methods are the mixture of techniques that the teachers in the classroom use to teach their students, and strategies are the teacher's ideas about language teaching that can be implemented in the classroom using various language teaching techniques. Here I want to share several methods that can implement in English teaching.

1. GTM (Grammar Translation Method)

The grammar-translation method was a popular and commonly used method of language teaching between the ages of 1840 to 1940. But this approach was first used to teach and learn the Latin language which at the time was not the language of common use. This method is focusing on students’ language accuracy using translation techniques in teaching a foreign language. The goal of this method is to help the students to understand the language literature and to develop students' minds.

2. ALM (The Audio-Lingual Method)

The audio-lingual method is focusing on students’ pronunciation fluency using the drilling technique. This method focus study is on the teacher center but then the students can also actively join the class. The technique used in this method are various types of drilling and also introducing new vocabulary in every learning process. The goal of this method is to help students to be able to use the target language communicatively and learn to use the target language automatically without stopping to think.

3. CLT (Communicative Language Teaching)

The communicative language teaching focusing on enable students to communicate in the target language. This method help students become more communicative in term of language meaning, function, and linguistic. The learning process using this method requires students to become more talk active. There are some characteristics of this method. The first is an information gap that makes requires students to be communicative in every conversation. The second is choice, the communicative language teaching method the learners have a choice of what they will say and how they will say it. The last is feedback, in this method the speaker will have the feedback from the listeners, if the listeners do not provide the feedback then the exchange of information is not really communicative.

That’s all about the English teaching method that I already learned. Actually, there is many more method that I’ve not mentioned on this page. Hopefully, it will help you for teaching English.

As a teacher sometimes we have difficulties to find various activities or media that will support your learning process. Here I recommend several websites that will help you develop your learning process.

1. Teachingenglish is a blog which provide a wide range of practical resources to teach in the classroom, whether you are teaching primary, secondary, or adult and business students. This blog provide more than 400 full lesson plans are available to choose from, covering different topics and themes, all arranged according to the levels of the Standard European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

This website also shortens all the lessons, as well as ideas to use songs, poems and stories to help your learners develop their English in engaging, inspiring and enjoyable ways. All the practical materials provided in this blog are written by English Language Teaching experts and can be downloaded for free.

2. Cambridgeenglish is designed to help teacher develop their own skills and to make learning activity become enjoyable and motivating for the students at every stage of their learning journey. Besides give the free resources for the teacher Cambridgeenglish also help you to prepare become students for Cambridge English Qualification and also they have mothly Webinars covering all aspects of teaching English.

This resource will very helpful for the teacher because in this web you can download free lesson plans, handbooks, vocabulary list and sample of the paper for the example of Cambridge English Qualification. They also have speaking test example video that will help the students to familiarize with the test.

3. Onestopenglish is one of the best resource blog for teacher if they want to find the material, activity, teaching method and others. With over 9000 resources including lesson plans, worksheets, audio, video, and flashcards, this blog become the world’s number one resource site for English Language Teacher. Onestopenglish is a teacher resource site part of Macmillan Education and become one of the leading publisher of english language teaching materials.

Onestopenglish is packed with resources for English teachers. All materials are written and edited by our professional team of teachers and writers, and grouped into core subject areas such as Business, ESP, Grammar, Skills, Teenagers and Methodology, so you can always find what you are looking for.