Students are expected to spend at least two hours preparing for every class period. Any grammar explanations given in class will be very brief and will presuppose a knowledge of the material based on preparation outside of class. All exercises assigned in the textbook are to be practiced thoroughly outside of class. No credit will be given for assignments turned in late. Any grammar explanations given in class will be very brief and will presuppose a knowledge of the material based on preparation outside of class.
All exercises assigned in the textbook are to be practiced thoroughly outside of class.
2. communicative teaching, is an approach which focuses on maximizing the four communicative skills as opposed to the traditional grammar-translation method. It includes the use of the target language in class. Students prepare grammar assignments outside of class and are prepared to implement them in class in given situation involving students sharing information, asking questions to elicit information, answering questions, asking and receiving directions and instructions, exchanging information, etc. Students learn to take a given grammatical, lexical, or syntactic rule and see how it may be applied to other instances. Examples of significant problems are rules of conjugation and their variations, rules of word order, and the differences and similarities between the native language and the target language.