Current Language Teaching Approaches

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, University of Western Sydney, course: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language (TESOL), language: English, abstract: The spread of English in the era of globalization has led to a growing need for good communication skills in English. Hence there is a strong demand for an appropriate teaching methodology. Language teaching has gone through many changes in terms of methodologies used. First, the traditional approaches which focus on the mastery of grammar and then the communicative language teaching CLT emerged. In this essay, I am going to give a critical overview and comparison of these approaches with examples from English language teaching settings in Australia.

Experience: English Language Teacher at Secondary Commercial Institute from 1999 to 2003 Lecturer at ArRass Technical College from 2004 to 2013 Head of General Studies Department at ArRass Technical College from 2013 to present. Education: University of Western Sydney Master of Arts (TESOL) with Distinction 2008 - 2009 Al Qassim University Bachelor's Degree, English Language and Translation 1996 - 1999 Publications: Altasan, A. M. B. (2016). The Pragmalinguistic Competence in Requests: A Comparison between One Native and Two Non-native Speakers of English. American Journal of Educational Research, 4(4), 353-359. Altasan, A. M. B. (2016). English Language Provision in Australia within the Global Context of ELT. American Journal of Educational Research, 4(7), 563-569. Altasan, A. M. B. (2016). Motivational orientations and their effect on English Language Learning: A Study in EFL Saudi Context. American Journal of Educational Research, 4(16), 1131-1137.