Methods and Approaches for Primary English Teaching

Abstract

Over the years, Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) has evolved and suffered numerous changes thanks to the multiple contributions of renowned psychologists, linguists and pedagogues. This leads the teachers to choose between a wide range of possibilities what they should teach and how they should perform their work. The present Degree Dissertation aims to compile information about methodologies of Total Physical Response (TPR), Competency-Based Teaching (CBT), Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), The Natural Approach (NA) and Cooperative Learning (CL) in order to help teachers of English as a foreign language to incorporate some of these methodologies in their teaching. Apart from this, I will attach a didactic proposal with these methodologies to demonstrate how they can be brought easily to the classroom and with are the pros and cons of each one.