The Natural Approach (???)

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The Natural Approach (???)

• By Lan Weihong

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Stage 1 Experience

• Activity 1 Guessing game
• Whats in the box?
• Whats the function of ___?

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• charger
• run down the battery
• recharge the mobile phone
• electrify the cell phone battery

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Activity 2 Do it

• Please show how you recharge a mobile phone.

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Activity 3 Say yes or no

• 1. When we recharge the mobile phone, we need to
  plug in the radio.
• 2. There is only one way to recharge our mobile
  phones.

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• 3. When we recharge the cell phone battery, we
  need to take out the battery from the phone.
• 4. One way to recharge a mobile phone is to plug
  in the charger and then plug in the power.

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Activity 4 Listen and repeat

• When we run down the battery in our mobile phone,
  we need to recharge it. We usually recharge the
  battery in two ways. We can either take out the
  battery from the mobile phone and electrify it in
  a charger or simply connect the charger and the
  mobile phone and then plug in the power.

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Activity 5 Speaking

• Work in pairs and describe how you usually
  recharge your cell phone.
• Key words
• . run down the battery recharge the battery
  charger . plug in the power

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Stage 2 Exploration

1. In the above learning activities, what have you
   learned as language learners?
2. In what aspect did Ms Lan help you to comprehend
   the new language items and enable you to use it
   in communication?

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• Based on the above learning experience, what do
  you think should be the initial task of a teacher
  at the stage of presentation? And what
  principles should we follow when designing
  presentation?

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Stage 3 Exchange

• 1. The initial task of a teacher at the stage of
  presentation should be to _______.
• 2. To help the learners understand the new
  language items, we should ____.
• 3. To enable the learners learn to speak, we
  should not _____.

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• 1. According the Natural Approach, the
  initial task of a teacher at the stage of
  presentation should be to provide comprehensive
  input, that is, spoken language that is
  understandable to the learner, or just a little
  beyond the learners level. (i 1)

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• 2. To help the learners understand the new
  language items, we should take the form of
  comprehensive input by teaching English in
  context and using simplified speech or
  foreigner talk .
• 3. To enable the learners learn to speak, we
  should not force them to learn, instead we
  should provide them opportunities to acquire the
  language.

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• The Natural Approach was developed by Tracy
  Terrell and Stephen Krashen, starting in 1977. It
  came to have a wide influence in language
  teaching in the United States and around the
  world.

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• Theory of language
• The Communicative view of language is the view
  behind the Natural Approach. Particular emphasis
  is laid on language as a set of messages that can
  be understood.

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• Theory of learning
• Language acquisition (an unconscious process
  developed through using language meaningfully) is
  different from language learning (consciously
  learning or discovering rules about a language)
  and language acquisition is the only way
  competence in a second language occurs. (The
  acquisition/learning hypothesis)

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• Conscious learning operates only as a monitor or
  editor that checks or repairs the output of what
  has been acquired. (The monitor hypothesis)

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• Grammatical structures are acquired in a
  predictable order and it does little good to try
  to learn them in another order.( The natural
  order hypothesis).

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• People acquire language best from messages that
  are just slightly beyond their current
  competence. (The input hypothesis)
• The learner's emotional state can act as a filter
  that impedes or blocks input necessary to
  acquisition. (The affective filter hypothesis)

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Stage 4 Extension

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Stage 5 Evaluation

• 1. Review
• 1) The initial task of a teacher at the stage of
  presentation should be to _______.
• 2) To help the learners understand the new
  language items, we should ____.
• 3) To enable the learners learn to speak, we
  should not _____.

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