Language Teaching

    In my view, effective language teaching is providing learners opportunities to use target language in comprehensive context. These opportunities could be expressing themselves, communicative interaction with other people, or fulfilling the task alone. Besides, teachers need to use authentic language, give feedback when needed, and adjust the teaching methods to meet learners' needs. To let the learners have a better understanding of context, teachers also need to provide the culture background of the target language.
    After reading the 9 methods in chapter 3, I find that lacking of any of these elements listed above cannot augment learners' integrative competence of the target language. The Grammar-translation Method is lack of self-expression, interaction, cultural context; the lack of correction in the Direct Method will lead to early fossilization; Audiolingual Method cannot provide the chance to let learners create themselves; the Cognitive Anti-Method and the Cognitive-code Method are either ignore grammar teaching or emphasize too much on explaining grammar; Communicative Language Teaching doesn't have fixed set of methodological procedures; TPR's way of using commands limits the context; the Natural Approach is lack of corrective feedback in classroom instruction; Community Language Learning does not ensure this class including a large range of contexts; the Silent Way and Suggestopedia all lose authentic input materials and speech. Thus, to teach language effectively, teachers should use different teaching methods together to cover up the shortage of each method.