Engaging Activities

A. Create your historical chart to present how acquisition of language occurred then.

B. Choose three (3) among the traditional direct methods you liked most and explain

your perception of its effectiveness in teaching language.

Phonetic Method because it develop the vocabulary and spelling of the learners and

also improves their accuracy. It is the best way to teach the student how to read and
make them participate.

Natural Method because it will develop the communication between the teacher and

student, student has the privilege to express themselves. To think and stir the

imagination of the student. It also one of the ways teachers help students develop

their knowledge more effectively.

Series Method because I think it is effective in teaching, student will develop their

critical thinking. Help them conceptualize and connect the situation or process.

Engaging Activities
A. Write True if the statement is correct and false if not.

True 1. In Natural Approach, the instructor always uses the target language

False 2. Speaker’s attention in normal conversation is usually on how it is being said

and not what is being said.

True 3. The speaker to have a successful speech has to be consciously

concerned about correctness.

False 4. Lowering the filter means high anxiety level

False 5. It takes short period of time before any real spoken fluency develops.

B. Identify if the situations given below is acquiring or learning a language.

Acquiring 1. You ask your students about their summer camp.

Acquiring 3. You ask your students to create a vlog of their trip to Baguio.

Learning Language 4. You gave a test about parts of speech.

Acquiring 5. You let them present their “how-to” project.

Engaging Activities
A. Identify the word being described by each statement. Write your answer on the

space provided.

Input Hypothesis 1. Fluency that is not taught rather emerges gradually.

Natural Order Hypothesis 2. Hypothesis which states that the grammatical

structures are acquired in a predictable order.

Affective Variables 3. Variables which play a facilitative, but non-causal,

role in second language acquisition

Foreigner Talk 4. The modifications native speakers make when talking

to a non-native speakers.

Stephen Krashen 5. An expert in the field of linguistics, specializing in

theories of language acquisition and development.

PT 1:

Directions: Interview three Elementary English Teachers. Ask about the traditional

direct method they are utilizing inside their class. Use the guide questions below.

1. Name: Agnes M. Alimagno

School: Putatan Elementary School, Muntinlupa City

Grade Level: Three

2. Are you familiar of the different traditional direct method in teaching language?

- Yes

3. Which among the methods are you still using inside your class? Why?

- Still using inside my class: Natural Method, Series Method, Phonetic Method and

Reading Method.

Reason: they are all effective methods and suit for the needs of each learner.

Name: Hazel Rasonabe

School: HiTutor. com Inc (English Instructor)

Grade level: Beginner, Intermediate, High Intermediate Level

Elementary level
2. Are you familiar of the different traditional direct method in teaching language?

- Yes

3. Which among the methods are you still using inside your class? Why?

All of the method, because it help the learners to understand and participate in class.

PT 2:

Research five (5) related literature / studies about Criticisms of the Audio-lingual

Method.

1. A Critique of Language Learning and Theory in the Audio-Lingual Method of

Teaching English as a Foreign Languagein the 1974

Stephen Gregory Hanchey

2. Re-evaluating the Effectiveness of the Audio-lingual Method in Teaching English

to Speakers of Other Languages in the 2009

Abdel-Rahman Abu-Melhim

3. CHOMSKY AND THE TURNING POINT OF AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD in the 2008

Norwanto1
4. Modified Audio-Lingual Methods in the High School in the 1966
H Reinert -
5. The Audio-Lingual Method in the Past: "Anti-Grammar" in Seventeenth-Century France in
the 1969
W. E. Thormann

PT 3
 A. Explain the difference between acquiring a language and learning a language?

Acquiring a language - is gaining language naturally and the information from the

language they hear around them and internalizing this information for later use. This

is also the first development in childhood where they learn to communicate by

acquiring or they just hear a word and start to speak it. For example, You always say

hello to your sister whenever you see her and, as time passes by, she will learn to say

hello too. Children easily learn words if they hear them often enough without formal

teaching.

Learning a language - Humans may learn to comprehend and understand language as

well as to create, utilize, and integrate words and phrases together. Structures, rules,

and representation are all involved in learning a language. For example, You want to

learn how to speak French, so you're going to study, search, or have a tutor about

learning French. You're going to look for its structure, meaning, and even how to

pronounce it. Learning a language may take time, effort, and perseverance.

B. How is lowering the filter in learning a language important?

Lowering the filter lowering the fear of student and raising their self esteem.

Students will highly motivated, feel confident, and feel safe are more open to

share or express their selves. It is important to help the student change

negative mentality about learning we should put positive mentality that

learning is fun also. We should investigate the learners' mentalities in order to

PT 4

In the video, Dr. Krashen explains language acquisition in an easy-to-understand

manner. The classic that put comphrensible input on the map as a recognized

method. He says we acquire language in one way and only one way: we get

comprehensible input in a low-anxiety environment. He really explains how we

acquire language. I agree that if you teach a baby to speak, he will not speak, even if

you repeatedly teach him. He is gathering all the comprehensible input, and by the

time he starts to speak, it is the result of all the comprehensible input he has gotten

over those months of teaching her. And according to Dr. Krashen, it is normal when

we are just starting to learn the language. When you go to a different country, you

can't talk to anyone because you don't know their language, but time passes by when

you start to learn. When the input you gather is enough, then you can talk to them.

When you focus on the message of what the other person is saying to you, then you

will not notice that you are using another language and your anxiety will be

temporarily gone.