Principles in language teaching

I have to say, that this book was the first book that i read refering to approaches and methods in a second language acquisition. i suggest this book, if you are interested in methods and techniques, but i have to expres that the methods are not very updated.

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GOALS OF THIS BOOK

One of the goals of t his book is for you to learn about many different language Teaching methods. I will use the term 'language teaching method' to mean a coherent set of links between actions and thoughts in language Teaching. The actions are the techniques and the thoughts are the principles in the title of this book: Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching.

A second goal is to help you uncover t he thoughts that guide your own actions as a teacher. They may not be ones of which you are aware. Seeking to determine which principles of the methods you read about here are most (dis)harmonious with your own thinking will help you to uncover some of your implicit thoughts and beliefs about reaching. A third goal is to introduce you to a variety of techniques, some of which will be new. Although certain techniques may require further training, others can be immediately implemented. Feel free to experiment and adapt those techniques to your teaching context.

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ELICITING !!!!

eliciting is more than showing pictures or asking questions, it is a technique that allows teachers to get students' previuos knowledge, and can be used through all the learning session.

there are a few things that we have to have account in order to acomplish  its real purpose:

1. Whatever you use to get information from students is eliciting, that means that we can use this technique not only with pictures, but gestures, mimes, realia, etc. just make sure that when you ask, the answer must come from students.

2. We have to know exactly what we want to get, in other words, questions  must be planned. as we are performing it, we have to go then naturally in conversation with students.  

3. Eliciting is mostly used to get information from students, that information could be in english or spanish, true or false, real or fake; we have to keep in mind that eliciting can also be used to get our students to guess or imagine.

4. Finally, i would say, if there is an activity we perform very often in class, "That is eliciting", so  you better start to get involved and find strategies to do it each time accurately. 

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