Name that Method or Approach
A method that connects vocabulary and phrases to physical movements like actions or gestures.
TPR
A method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects.
Project-Based Learning
You want students to practice real-life tasks like planning a trip.
Task-Based Learning
Weakness – Develops reading but not speaking fluency.
Grammar-Translation Method
An approach which places equal emphasis on both accuracy and fluency.
Communicative Approach
A method that focuses on memorisation, translation, and accuracy over communication.
Grammar-Translation Method
Learning involves visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic input to support memory and engagement.
Multisensory Approach
Your goal is pronunciation accuracy and developing correct language habits through repetition.
Audio-Lingual Method
Strength – Promotes collaboration, creativity, real-world skills, and learner autonomy.
Project-Based Learning
A method famous for very fast-paced teacher-led speaking drills and controlled practice.
The Callan Method
Vocabulary, collocations, and idioms are important in this approach.
Lexical Approach
Learning a foreign language through content subjects, such as history or science, and vice versa.
CLIL
You want learners to experience learning through multiple senses.
Multisensory Approach
Weakness – Lessons may lack structure as they heavily depend on teachers' improvisation, and students' knowledge can be difficult to assess.
Dogme, Teaching Unplugged
This approach is often used with young learners because it allows them to move during lessons, and it feels like play.
TPR
A method that immerses learners in the target language, mirroring the process of first language acquisition.
Direct Method
This method incorporates music, special classroom arrangements, furniture, decorations, and the teacher plays a central role.
Suggestopedia
You want students to interact meaningfully in real-life situations, exchange information, work in pairs/groups, and overall develop their communication skills.
Communicative Approach
Strength – This approach teaches useful language chunks that sound natural and native-like.
Lexical Approach
This method believes language learning improves when students are relaxed, confident, and emotionally comfortable.
Suggestopedia
Method that combines storytelling with physical response.
TPRS
Lots of repetition and drills are used in this method.
Audio-Lingual Method
Your goal is for students to become independent, autonomous, and responsible for their own learning.
Silent Way
Weakness – Can be stressful due to the teacher speaking as little as possible.
Silent Way
The teacher focuses on emergent language from student talk and follows no coursebook or predetermined syllabus.
Dogme, Teaching Unplugged