Structural Approach and Functional Approach

Name: Dodiya Meghana J.Roll no: 11Paper name: English Teaching LanguageEmail ID: mdodiya26@gmail.comSubmitted to :Department Of English

Introduction• Theoretical positions and beliefs about the nature

of language teaching and language learning and the applicability of both to pedagogical settings are Includes into the approaches.

• Approaches seeks to be provide a comprehensive and comprehensible account of major and minor trends  in language teaching from beginning of the twentieth century to the  preset also.

• It has extensive and acknowledge links to a particular tradition in second or foreign language teaching.

Various Types Of Approach

• Structural Approach• Functional Approach• Communication Approach• Situational Approaches

What is Approach ?

• An approach is a set of correlative assumptions dealing with the nature of language teaching and learning.

• An approach is axiomatic.

Structural Approach

• Structural approach is a prescriptive model that suggests learner’s should start to develop rules for problems solving.

• In developing  rules, the learner needs to fulfill the gaps in the problem and in doing so learner‘s problem solving.

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• “The approach involve selection and gradation of material to be taught”.

• Selection is there because the students are not supposed to learn all the structure but they learn only those structures which frequently comes.

• Thus based on Usefulness & teachability Structural Approach.

Functional Approach•  The functional approach explains

the behavior is indebted to Smith Freud and Durkheimnged.

• Functional national syllabus is a syllabus in which the language content is arranged according to the functions that the learner will use the language for and the meaning a learner needs to express through the language.

• The language is needed to express different functions for example requesting suggesting.

Continue…• Like the language becomes medium which

depends on request of the student and it leads towards suggestions which were given by the teacher is call functional approach. 

•  Functional approach seeks to impart instruction in the hope that attempting to use language in life like or real world context is the best way of learning

• Some functions are given to students while teaching through this approach which related with the communication between teacher and students.

Reference

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=Richard+and+Rodgers+approaches&biw=1093&bih=530&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZh8bPza3QAhVBtY8KHbO7DaEQ_AUIBigB

http://www.academia.edu/5666615/Approaches_and_Methods_in_Language_Teaching_-_Jack_C._Richards_and_Theodore_S._Rodgers

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