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What are the objectives of the Grammar-Translation Method
´ð£ºAn ultimate purpose of learning a foreign language in a Grammar-Translation classroom is to enable the learners to read and translate its literature.The other objectives of the method are to provide students with good mental exercise that helps devewlop their minds,and to gain a better understanding of the first language.
What are the main advantages of the Grammar-Translation Method?
´ð:The main advantages of the Grammar-Translation Method are as follows:1)In Grammar-Translation Method,the first language is maintained as the reference system in the learning of the scond language.Translation from one language to another plays a certain part in language learning.Comparison between two languages helps students to have a better understanding of the meaning of abstract words and complicated sentences.2)Systematic study of grammatical rules plays an important role in fostering students' ability of reading comprehension and producing grammatically correct sentences.It has special importance for students in teachers' colleges for whom a good mastery of the grammar system of the target language will kelp them in their future teaching.Understanding and manipulating the morphology and syntax will develop students ability of analyzing and solving problems.3)The focus on understanding literary texts provides the situation in which reading and writing abilities are well trained.4)The Grammar-Translation Method makes few demands on teachers although it often creates frustration for students.it is relatively easy to apply.
3.What are the rechniques that the Grammar-Translation teachers use to hlep realize the course objectives?
´ð£ºThe techniques are reading,translation,deductive teaching of grammar,analysis and comparison,memorization,reading comprehension questions,and written work.
4.What are the main disdvantages of the Grammar-Translation Method?
´ð£ºThe main disadvantages of the Grammar-Translation Method are as follow:1)Over emphasis on translation can never emancipate the learners from dependence on the first language.2)Deductive teaching of grammar always starts with definition,followed by examples.Knowing a large number of grammatical roles can not ensure that students can use them appropriately in real communicative situation.3)It puts too much emphasis on reading and writing and neglects listening and apeaking.In language communication,all the four skills are needed.4)The texts are mostly taken from literary works.the language learned often doesn't meet the practical needs of the learners.5)Memorizing grammar roles and bilingual word lists does not motivate students to actively communicate in the target language.
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1.How didi the Grammar-Translation Method develop into its present form?
´ð:Grammar analysis and translation began to be the basic procedures in foreign language teaching from the 16th centry.at that time,Latin was taught as the world's most widely studied foreign language through active use of Latin sppch and written text without grammar analysis,since the mother tongue at that time did not have systematic grammar.the modern language,such as French.Italian and English,provided one of the conditions for grammar analysis and application of grammatical rules in translation exercises in teaching Latin.the second impetus for the procedures of garmmar analysis ans translation in teaching Latin came from the social needs of European countries.with the development of modern language,latin gradually became displaced as living language.the fundamental purpose of learning latin was to study the classical culture.Students'study of the foreign culture is limited to its literature and fine arts.Grammar analysis and translation proved to be affective means in studying foreign culture through literary works.the trend of teaching foreign language bagan to swing from active use of latin to the study of the written form of latin.As modern languages began to enter the curriculum of European schools in the 18thcentury,they were taught using the same basic procedures that were used for teaching Latin.Only in the late18th century did the regulars with combination of grammar rules with translation into the target language become popular as the principal practice technique. Therefore,it is accepted by most experts of foreign language teaching that the Grammar-Translation Method originated from the 18th century.In the 19th century,more experts of foreign language teaching adopted the strategy of combining grammar rules with translation. In the mid-19th century Karl Pleotz in Germany adopted Seidenstucker's French textbook for use in schools and this the Grammar Translation Method became the principal method of teaching modern language in school.
2. Why is the Grammar-Translation Method still popular in the world?
´ð£ºThe Grammar-Translation Method is still popular in the word because it has the following advantages.1)In Grammar-Translation Method,the first language is maintained as the reference system in the learning of the second language.Translation from one language to another plays a certain part language learning.Comparison between two language helps students to have a better understanding of the meaning of abstract words and complicated sentences.2)Systematic study of grammatical rules plays an important role in fostering students ability of reading comprehension and producing grammatically correct sentences.It has special importance for students in teachers' colleges for the grammar system of the in their future teaching.Understanding and manipulating the morphology and syntax will develop students' ability of analyzing and solving problems.3)The focus on understanding literary texts provides the situation in which reading and writing abilities are well trained.4)The Grammar-Translation Method makes few demands on teachers although it often creates frustration for students.It is relatively easy to apply.