A short presentation of the "Traditional Language Teaching Method", i.e. the Grammar-Translation Method.
Course: Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults and Adolescents
Part I: Theories and Methods of Instructed Second Language Acquisition
[Taught at Universidad Central del Ecuador, in 2020-2021]
00:00 - Introduction
01:08 - The beginning of public and compulsory education
01:29 - Inspired by the teaching of Latin and Ancient Greek
01:55 - A difference in objectives
03:37 - Practises still present in modern-day language teaching
05:03 - Not based on theory or research
06:10 - Why is this method still prevalent?
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