Didactics Summary
Didactics Summary
Didactics Summary
Didactics concerns:
Method: theory put into practice and choices are made about skills to be taught
Richards and rogers: ’80, to provide a more comprehensive model for the discussion and
analysis of a method.
Structural: (more traditional) lang. is a system of structurally related elements for the coding
or meaning.- lang. learning- AIM.
Functional: lang. is a vehicle for the expression of functional meaning, it emphasis the
semantics and communicative dimension
Interactional: lang. is a vehicle for the realization of interpersonal relations and performance of
social transaction btw indiv.
Lang.: a tool for the creation and maintenance of social relations.
Characteristics:
Goal of foreing lang. study:
To learn a lang. in order to read its literature
To benefit from the mental discipline and intellectual devices, that result from foreign lang.
study. 1st approaches the lang. though detailed analysis rules, then translation of sentences
and texts into of the target lang.
The 1st lang. is maintained as the reference system in the 2nd lang.
International
Phonetic
Association