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Structural Approach

Approach vs Method

Starter – Discussion (What vs How)

Structural Approach
Structural Approach

 Basic structures – basic patterns

 Basic patterns – 275 identified

 Structural approach – three important devices for construction of meaningful sentences:


 Word order
 Structural words
 Inflections
Structural Approach

(1) Word order – change in word order changes meaning


Examples:
 The mosquito is biting Ramu.
 Ramu is biting the mosquito.

(2) Structural words – words useful in forming sentences


Examples – prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions are structural words

(3) Inflections – changes or differences in the form of words to show the function they do.
Examples – variation in numbers, gender, tense etc.
Structural Approach

 Structural approach lays emphasis on situations.

 Real or imaginary situations, but meaningful.

 Oral practice plays an important role – drilling

 Focus is on accent and intonation – phonetics


Structural Approach

The different steps involved in this 1. Model reading of the lesson by the
approach: teacher
1. Revision of the previous structure 2. Silent reading by the students
2. Presentation of the new structure 3. Comprehension questions
3. Creating a situation to teach the 4. Loud reading by students
new structure 5. Composition questions
4. Individual and group drill 6. Assignment
5. Reading from the substitution
tables (model sentences)
6. Teaching vocabulary by presenting
Structural Approach

Advantages:
 Active methods are used
 Learners activities are more important than the teacher’s.

Disadvantages:
 Overemphasis on oral presentation
 Learners mother tongue is not used for learning the second language.
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