Blogg # 2

Blog #2: Methods and the Classroom. Of all the methods you read about for last week (Omaggio Hadley reading), which ones were most prevalent in the FL classes where you were a student? How effective were they for you and for others? Please describe and give examples.

When I took Spanish class in high school the method my teacher used the most was grammatical-translation. Almost all of the class was taught in English only like 10% of the class was taught in Spanish. The teacher would translate the word of the day and then make us repeat it multiple times. Which is no surprise because one of the strategies most used in grammatical-translation is repetition. For example when I was in high school I would get to class and the teacher would greet us in English then lecture about the words we were going to study for the day. Then she would say the words in Spanish and make us repeat it. After that was done she would make us write a sentence using the new vocab and then translate that. I fill that this method did not work for me because I was not learning a new language I was just remembering vocab. My thought is that in order to learn a new language one must first understand the language and then remember words. One example is that if the vocab included the word “Perro” and the color “Negro” she would write a sentence like “El perro es negro” and make us repeat it until we memorized it.