English for many is some unattainable dream. It seems that people have been teaching it for several years, but they can’t learn it in any way. As a result, their level of knowledge hangs in uncertainty: it seems that they learned a lot of words, and remember the grammar with whole tables, but there is no result in the form of a conversation and understanding of someone else's speech. You can blame the students themselves - they say they are doing poorly. But maybe it's time to look from the other side and understand: it is also important what method of teaching English was used. And there are a lot of them today.
That's just to understand the variety is quite difficult. How to determine what will be a good option for you? The key word here is "for you." Yes exactly. Almost every method has its advantages and disadvantages, but each pupil / student pursues his own goals: someone needs conversational, someone needs perfect knowledge, someone has an average level and so on.
Now new methods of teaching English appear every year, and this is very good. In the USSR, we were taught only one, “cramming” method, dry and often completely uninteresting. With this approach, only people with very strong motivation could learn the language. Although, again, some like the school way. Now for those who wish there are no big restrictions.
The main species are approximately five:
- Classic - remember the school again.
- Fundamental - the basics, for example colloquial for tourists.
- Intensive - this also includes the famous immersion method, in which the results come very quickly.
- Communicative - communication in the format of trainings, a very progressive and positive methodology for teaching English.
- Linguistic and sociocultural - the study of the customs, traditions, history and lifestyle of the British and Americans, in addition to grammar and words. It is usually used in institutions.
In psychology, it is known that every person perceives this or that method better, so school classics plunged many into gloom. Courses make it possible to try everything, make the right decision. Teachers are no longer perceived as tyrants, now they are more and more like friends.
Many people need an effective method of teaching English for children. Sometimes the best incentive for a baby is to speak foreign with mom or dad, so we recommend that you consider approaches for children and adults at the same time.
A good example is the methodology of teaching English Zaitsev or the method of Frank. According to Frank, you immediately get two texts: with a hint and without. Regular peeping is allowed, and words and phrases are remembered by frequent repetition. They learn immediately their ready-made combinations, which are often used. The convenience is that you can learn on your own from books, which means that it’s not so expensive. After 3-4 months, students begin to read foreign works.
But the method of teaching English according to Zaitsev, on the contrary, is quite an expensive pleasure. But the results promise very fast. Attention is paid to transcription, and from the very first lessons there are no problems with reading words. There is a game form and a clear algorithm of actions.
In any case, these are far from all training options. There are Dragunkin, Doman, Callan and many others who have made learning interesting by discarding the boring cramming. You are free to choose what interests you.