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  The Silent way (Language Teaching Approach) (Advantages / Disadvantages) Although people have learned languages ​​through the Spoken-Language Method, and in fact is still widely practiced today, the idea that learning a language means forming a set of habits was seriously questioned in the early 1960s. Cognitive psychologists and trans-formative productive linguists argue that language learning does not occur through imitation; People cannot learn a language simply by repeating what was spoken around them, because they can create words they have never heard before. These psychologists and linguists claim to have created rules that allow speakers to understand and create new expressions. Therefore, language should be considered not as a product of habit formation, but as a product of rule formation. Accordingly, language acquisition should be a procedure in which people use their own thinking processes or cognition to discover the rules of the language they acquire. The emp...

  The Bilingual Teaching Method (Advantages & Disadvantages) While learning his/her mother language the child grasps the situation or the concept and learns to express it in the mother language simultaneously.  The advocates of the Bilingual English Language Teaching say that while learning a second or a foreign English language, there is no need to recreate the situation. Instead we should make use of the mother language of the child. This is convenient. However, it is only the teacher who uses the mother language and not the students. According to William Mackey (1965), ‘Selection’, ‘Gradation’, ‘Presentation’, and ‘Repetition’ are the four cardinal principals of all language teaching methodology. The Bilingual Methods embodies these principals. Besides, according to C.J. Dodson (1963) a good method should have the following features to promote “thinking” in the language: It must be simple. It must strike a balance between the spoken and the written word and accura...

  State Verbs and Event Verbs Subject English Grade IX In modern English Grammar, Finite Verbs are classified in two broad categories. They are State Verbs and Event Verbs: Examples of State Verbs State of being Verb Sentences be He is a very brave boy. We are Pakistani and they are Chinese. remain I remain silent in such cases. He remains dumb all along. State of Perceiving Verb Sentences See I see you are a fool. Hear I hear a buzzing sound. Feel I feel tired. She feels ashamed of your behavior. Smell The rose smell, sweet. Taste Honey tastes sweet. State of mind & emotional state   Verb Sentences Love Everybody loves his mother. Hate you should not hate the por. Like ...

  Transitive & Intransitive Verbs Subject English Grade VIII Principal verbs are two types: Transitive Verb: as; We eat rice. He does his homework. Intransitive Verb: as; River flows. Winds blow. Birds fly. Animals die. A verb is Transitive if the action does not stop with the agent, but passes from the agent to something else. A verb is Intransitive when the action stops with the agent, and doesn`t passes from the agent to something else. Study the following table: Transitive Intransitive He is eating rice. She is preparing breakfast. We have caught a thief. They have bought a bike. The beggar wanted some money. The birds are flying. The boy is laughing. The lion is roaring. Why are you weeping? The old man is coughing.   So we can say: Transitive verbs need an object to complete their meaning. Intransitive verbs need no object to complete their meaning. What is a...