Various Linguistic Views and Their Significance in Language Teaching

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Various Linguistic Views and Their Significance
in Language Teaching
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• Traditional Grammar
• Structuralist Linguistics
• Transformational-Generative Linguistics
• Functional Linguistics
• The Theory of Communicative Competence

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Traditional Grammar

• It lays emphasis on correctness, literary
  excellence, the use of Latin models, and the
  priority(???) of the written language.

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Grammar Translation Method(?????)

• A method of foreign or second language teaching
  which makes use of translation and grammar study
  as the main teaching and learning activities.
• It paid much attention on grammar.
• Involved with massive translation practice and
  grammatical rules memory
• Teacher-centered

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Structuralist Linguistics

• Language is a structural system
• Language is speech while the written record is
  but a secondary representation of the language.

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Audio-lingual Method(???)

• Repeated practice and reinforcement (Behaviorism)
• Focus on the grammatical structures of language
  (sentence patterns)
• Teacher-centered

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Transformational-Generative Linguistics
/Universal Grammar

• Language is an internalized(???) system of rules.
• Human language is creative in that humans are
  able to produce and interpret an infinitely large
  number of sentences that they have never heard
  before.
• A native speaker possesses a kind of linguistic
  competence.
• The language is a set of deep structures which
  underline the surface structures

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Functional Linguistics

• Language is an instrument used to perform various
  functions in social interaction.
• To functionalist language is viewed as a dynamic,
  open system by means of which members of a
  community exchange information and communicate.
• Halliday emphasizes the communicative functions
  and contexted and sociocultural differences of
  languages rather than the grammatical
  characteristics of languages.
• It holds that language is a vehicle for the
  expression of functional meaning.

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Community Language Learning Method(???????)

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• Student-centered
• Stressing the learning emotions of students
• Cultivating the communicative ability of students

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The Theory of Communicative Competence

• Competence (Chomsky)

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Communicative Teaching Approach(???)

• Class goals are focused on all of the components
  of communicative competence and not restricted to
  grammatical or linguistic competence.
• Accuracy is secondary to convey a message.
  Fluency may take on more importance than
  accuracy. The ultimate criterion for
  communicative success is the actual transmission
  and receiving of intended meaning.
• In the communicative classroom, students
  ultimately have to use the language, productively
  and receptively, in unrehearsed contexts.

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