I have seen a few different language approaches being a student of a second language. I have seen the communicative language approach where we would engage in a lot of role-play and dialouge activities. We would work in groups a lot and we were pushed to communicate in the target language. I have also been taught in the grammar-translation method where little instruction would be given in the L1 and we would focus on the grammar aspect of the language. We would read texts and have to translate sentences from our L1 to our L2 language. The third approach that I have been taught before in was the direct method. We wouldn't be able to speak in our mother tongue and lots of pictures were used to understand what it was that we were reading. The last approach that has been used in a classroom that I learned in was audiolingualism. It had a lot of emphasis on dialogues and speaking. We would have to do a lot of memorization and we would learn reading, writing, and speaking more seperately than integrated. There was a lot of emphasis on pronunciation and our errors were corrected if we spoke wrong.
In personally felt comfortable with the communicative language approach and the grammar translation approach. I like the communicative approach because I like role-play and dialouges because I feel you can practice situations that may happen in real life and role-play is kind of in the moment and thinking quick off your feet which I like. I also like the grammar translation method because I like to understand the meaning of a sentence and see how it's being formed. It helps me to have a better grasp of the language I feel. I do not think there is a best method that fits the needs of all the students though because everyone learns differently and has different methods that work better for them. I think for a teacher to be a good teacher they will integrate all of the methods as some point to engage the thinking and minds of all their students so everyone has an equal opportunity at learning.
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