Traditional Language Teaching: The Grammar-Translation Method (TEFL 1.1)

A short presentation of the “Traditional Language Teaching Method“, i.e. the Grammar-Translation Method. Course: Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults and Adolescents Part I: Theories and Methods of Instructed Second Language Acquisition [Taught at Universidad Central del Ecuador, in 2020-2021] 00:00 - Introduction 01:08 - The beginning of public and compulsory education 01:29 - Inspired by the teaching of Latin and Ancient Greek 01:55 - A difference in objectives 03:37 - Practises still present in modern-day language teaching 05:03 - Not based on theory or research 06:10 - Why is this method still prevalent?