What is the situational approach of teaching English | Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

Jackie Bolen
Jackie Bolen
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The Situational Approach of teaching English is an approach developed by British applied linguists between the 1930s and the 1960s. While it is unknown for many teachers, it had a big influence on language courses till the 1980s.

In this video, I discuss the pros and cons of this method and what exactly the Situational Approach of Teaching English is.

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Transcript for the Situation Approach to Teaching Language

What is a situational approach to teaching English? It was developed in the 1930s to around the 1960s in England. It is focused on speaking structures and basic vocabulary. All the structures are presented in specific situations, hence the name situational English.

There's lots of repetition and the focus is on no errors and so the teacher would correct every single error because they view language as a habit formation kind of thing. They don't want students to be practicing errors and then errors would eventually become fossilized.

There's a focus on grammar patterns and then the very high-frequency vocabulary so the students are able to communicate in most different situations. There's a ton of focus on oral practice which is often kind of seen today.

You can kind of see a lot of this in most modern ESL textbooks, the focus on speaking and communication and in different situations in which students might use English. For example, people at the doctor, out shopping, or in a taxi cab.

Some of the negatives are is that language is more than just habit formation and what about a novel sentence? If you want to say a sentence that nobody has ever said before, you have to know how to do that. So you can't just learn that by habit. You actually need to create your own language.

And the other negative is that the teacher is always correcting every single error. It can kind of inhibit communication. Okay, so that's it for the situational approach to teaching English.

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0:00 Intro
0:13 Situational approach focus
0:23 Error Correction and repetition
0:41 Grammar patterns and high frequency vocabulary
1:08 Situational approach negatives
1:34 Conclusion

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