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Situational Language Teaching Guide

The document discusses situational language teaching, which involves presenting language structures in realistic situations where they could be used. Words and sentences are taught by associating them with real or imagined contexts. Learners understand meanings of words based on how they are used in situations, not by looking them up. This method guides learners to learn English naturally through simulated scenes that stimulate responses. While it leads to fluency, there may be grammatical mistakes that hinder full mastery, so continued improvement is sought.

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Situational Language Teaching Guide

The document discusses situational language teaching, which involves presenting language structures in realistic situations where they could be used. Words and sentences are taught by associating them with real or imagined contexts. Learners understand meanings of words based on how they are used in situations, not by looking them up. This method guides learners to learn English naturally through simulated scenes that stimulate responses. While it leads to fluency, there may be grammatical mistakes that hinder full mastery, so continued improvement is sought.

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Situational Language Teaching

Since the purpose of teaching a foreign language is to enable the learners to use it, then it must be heard, spoken, read, and written in suitable realistic situations. Neither translation nor mechanical drills can help if they are not connected to practical life. Drilling words and structures or making a maximum of sentences out of substitution tables would, inevitably, lead to the unreality, boredom, and remoteness of the language process. So it lies in the fact that structures must be presented in situations in which they could be used. In situational language teaching, the language that is taught is realistic, all the words and sentences must grow out of some real situation or imagined real situation. Thus, the meaning of words are tied up with the situations in which they are used. The learners know the meaning of the word blackboard, not because they have looked it up in a dictionary, but because they have learned the word in situations; by hearing commands such as: Look at the blackboard!, Clean the blackboard!, Write on the blackboard!. This example stresses the association between the word blackboard and the action of looking at it, cleaning it, or writing on it. Even if the classroom environment is limited, the teachers inventiveness should be put into practice in the pretence of a situation picked up from outside the classroom. In this way of learning, learners should have three stages that are receiving, repeating and becoming automatic. That is to say, learners first listen to what the teacher says, then repeat and memorize, and at last can speak out spontaneously. It is much more easier than memorizing hundreds mechanic rules of grammar and translation. Learning in such a relaxing phenomenon, learners can memorize words without hard process and the words are not easily forgotten. Furthermore, the learners know uses of the words clearly. They know in certain situation using certain word, because they learn the words in realistic situations. When learners try their best to use the language creatively and spontaneously, they are bound to make errors. But the teachers will not constantly correct the learners errors in order to encourage them to talk and express themselves as much as they want. The more they say, the faster they will be improved. It is believed that students can have limited linguistic knowledge and still be successful communicators. Their success is determined as much by their fluency as it is by their accuracy. And also this situational-teaching method guides the learners to learning English in a very natural way. Similar scenes are designed to stimulate their English response time after time. English and American culture are taught step by step in a "question and answer" mode, where learners can learn to think and respond in an "English" way.

But all things have their two sides. The situational language teaching method also has some shortcomings. Learning in this way, although the learners can speak English very fluently, there are many grammatical and structural mistakes or some informal uses which will prevent the learners from mastering the language. They may have no problem in speaking but a lot of in writing. For there is no perfect teaching method in the world, people are searching for a better one.

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