When the teacher is going to give the lesson he or she
always uses different kinds of activities so that students can learn or
appropriate the information that the teacher is trying to teach them. Then, he
could have a way in which he can draw on something to do his performance as a teacher.
That is called approach and most teachers use it. Then, this is a way in which
a teacher develops his class.
In teaching English there are many sorts of approaches
for teaching classes such as Suggestopedia, Silent Way, Total Physical
Response, etc. All of these have a unique way for carrying out a class and the
teacher uses one of these or another to create and implement his activities in
class such as explanation, evaluation, games and so on. Then, through an
approach teacher will design his materials for his classes and they are necessary
because they will permit teacher to have a clear idea of what he wants to
achieve with the material in his lesson. Also, when the teacher is making the
material he has to think what kind of abilities he will improve in his students
whether they are either speaking, reading, writing or listening. In addition,
there are some approaches focus on one or two abilities and teacher will choose
one with what he will work in his lesson.
Moreover, considering language approaches for the
creating of teaching material are essential for the kinds of activities that
the teacher will develop. If the teacher knows the language approaches, he will
know how he has to act in class and the resources that he would utilize to get
students to learn. For example, multiple intelligences have 8 intelligences in
which each of them has different ways to implement its materials and of course
the kinds of materials. Then, they can be puzzles, word games, role plays,
collaborative groups and record music.
To sum up, if a teacher knows more about language
approaches, he will develop excellent materials for his classes. Besides,
approaches are a guide for teacher’s activities. That is to say, teaching
materials need to be supported by an approach and this will say how the
material could be used.
