About the two different approaches

Today we learned about two approaches for teaching vocabulary: the present and learn and the Learning through Input Approach. You can see a PowerPoint presentation of the approaches here. I would like to tell you about the strengths and weaknesses of each approach as well as the approach I would use as a Junior High School English teacher.

●the present and learn
＊strengths＊
・As a teacher teaches the word meaning frankly, students needs not to learn extra words by heart.
・A teacher gets the students to repeat words in chorus, so students memorizes automatically in their brain.
・By giving an English example to show how the the word is used, it is easy for students to use the word in their sentence.

＊weaknesses＊
・As students is taught the word meaning without thinking, the word does't impress their mind. So the word is easy to forget for students.
・It is possible to be monotonous class, so students will be bored when the teacher repeats the class every day.


●the Learning through Input Approach
＊strengths＊
・Students takes the class with thinking the word meaning, so they will be able to enjoy the class.
・As a teacher teaches the word with giving the image of the word, students can remember the word even if long time past.
・By testing student's knowledge whether they remember the word, they can know the part that they can't understand in the class.

＊weaknesses＊
・ By teaching Natural Vocabulary Groups centered around a theme, it is possible that students confuse the word with the other word in same group.
・A teacher makes students think the word meaning, so it is possible that students has learned words by heart with mistakes.


Lastly as a junior high school English teacher I want to use two good point hybrid of both the present and learn and the Learning through Input Approach. It depends on whether a teacher use those effectively. I learned it through the last class.