THEORY ON TEACHING ENGLISH

Theory on Teaching English



Theory on Teaching English

Introduction

English is the language that you cannot ignore in a modern world. It is linked everywhere to business education and communication and other miscellaneous things. The English language is and will be important in a global society. Throughout the twentieth century, a variety of teaching methods and linguistic theories were applied and still apply in different parts of the world in the teaching of foreign languages, but the practice has shown that at least in countries like Cuba, and particularly in higher literature education centers that teach English as a foreign language, many graduates of these courses are unable to communicate properly. That is why our work tries to achieve a linguistic approach to these theories, its main features, techniques and procedures for teaching the various components of the language and developing language skills, and experience is addressed using a holistic approach these theories in courses for health staff.An Approach to Learning Theories

Conceptions of learning have been marked throughout all this time and especially by learning theories, which provide the essential elements of how to pass the learning process. Between 1900 and 1960 coexisted asocionismo theories, behaviorism, cognitive and functionalism were developed and later developed other theories based on "information processing", "humanism," "constructivism" and based on "activity."

The audiovisual method and ALM, for example, arose largely as a result of structuralism in linguistics and behaviorism in psychology, essentially structuralism methods whose main proponents were the linguists Bloomfield Fries. Behaviorism would be a learning theory based on stimulus-response and changes associated with the subject as a result of experience. This theory would require precision in teaching, objectives and utilize the skills and techniques, procedures and situations that "would lead to desired learning, especially driving positive reinforcement and avoid possible punishment. According to behaviorist theory, employers need to be over-learned or repeated until they become unconscious habits, regardless of meaning, which would, in light of new concepts, one of its significant shortcomings.

The study and knowledge of grammar would be prohibited and would avoid any explanation grammar. Another of its major shortcomings, perhaps most important, would not take into account the communication and interaction among students, and ignoring the social component of learning any language and therefore would not use language creatively by students. This theory based on Skinner's work on the nature of learning a language was once bitterly attacked by Chomsky, which occurs; over the years to impersonate another theory called ...