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1. • • In their study of English at Thacher, students build the deep critical thinking skills they need to listen, speak, write, learn—and to explore the human experience through literature. Their teachers are both guides and participants as all work together to take on challenging texts from a variety of genres and a diversity of voices.
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   What makes The Thacher School a great school?

   • The Thacher School is known for its high-impact learning that occurs at the intersection of student-centered instruction, critical thinking, and reflection. From student-designed xBlock electives and senior exhibitions, the academic program is rooted in this principle.

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   What is a language teaching approach?

   • Underlying any language teaching approach is a theoretical view of what language is, and of how it can be learnt. An approach gives rise to methods, the way of teaching something, which use classroom activities or techniques to help learners learn. The communicative approach is the best-known current approach to language teaching.

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   What is a language teaching method?

   • Some are called approaches, and one is simply a way. But they are all consistent with David Nunan’s (2003) definition: ‘A language teaching method is a single set of procedures which teachers are to follow in the classroom. Methods are usually based on a set of beliefs about the nature of language and learning’ (p. 5).

   Why I Wrote 30 Language Teaching Methods | Cambridge English

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   Do Thacher students find purpose & joy in their learning?

   • At Thacher School, students find joy and purpose in their learning. Thacher students report very high levels of affective engagement in a recent survey by Challenge Success, meaning they find both meaning/purpose and joy in their schoolwork.

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   How can a science teacher teach English?

   • Science teachers teach scientific theories and facts and history teachers have historical events and stories as the subject content, but English teachers can use a variety of topics as vehicles to present the English language. We can teach English using fairy tales, workplace rules or quirky homes around the world.

   Six trends for the new future of English language teaching

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   Why do teachers need a language training course?

   • What’s more, training courses regularly include a component on the history of language teaching methods. Teachers, in general, are intrigued by the variety of methods that have been proposed, and are often keen to experiment with them.

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   In their study of English at Thacher, students build the deep critical thinking skills they need to listen, speak, write, learn—and to explore the human experience through literature.

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   We offer courses in French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Latin with expert teachers who work to help students master the language, while also providing insight into and understanding of the varied cultures that speak them.

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   Where a student’s authentic interests and deep curiosity meet uniquely supportive, engaged educators, meaningful learning follows. In Thacher's tight-knit boarding school community, teachers design curriculum around the students and focus on work that tackles real, practical challenges.

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   Nevertheless, in the popular imagination at least, faith in the idea of method persists. Websites advertising new and improved methods for language learning abound. Here are some promotional slogans taken at random: Learning a foreign language is easy with the XXX Method. The highly acclaimed YYY Method lets you pick up a new language naturally. Ov...

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   One attraction of methods is that they offer coherent templates for generating classroom routines. The method helps structure what – to both teachers and learners – is a potentially haphazard experience. It provides answers to questions like: Where do I start? What materials and activities should I use? In what order? To what end? For novice teache...

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   Not all the methods included in the book havemethod as part of their label. Some are called approaches, and one is simply away. But they are all consistent with David Nunan’s (2003) definition: ‘A language teaching method is a single set of procedures which teachers are to follow in the classroom. Methods are usually based on a set of beliefs about...

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   Most training courses and methodology texts include a section on ‘the history of methods’ and this typically takes the form of a ‘modernist’ narrative, i.e. one of uninterrupted progress from ‘darkness into light’. In actual fact, a closer reading of the history suggests that this account is over-simplified, and that methods not only co-exist, ofte...

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   Bell, D. (2007) ‘Do teachers think that methods are dead?’ ELT Journal, 61. Holliday, A. (1994)Appropriate methodology and social context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kelly, L.G. (1969) 25 centuries of language teaching: 500 BC – 1969. Rowley, MA: Newbury House. Kumaravadivelu, B. (1994) ‘The Postmethod condition: (E)merging strategies f...

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   The communicative approach is the best-known current approach to language teaching. Task-based teaching is a methodology associated with it. Other approaches include the cognitive-code approach, and the aural-oral approach (audiolingual method).

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   Oct 27, 2021 · Oxford Discover Futures (OUP – English language teaching, UK, Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, Spain and the Middle East) promotes critical thinking and collaboration skills through thought-provoking questions.

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   In English II, we will explore the concept of “the greatest good” as it relates to our personal, local, and global lives. Course readings will highlight the cultural tradition of literature throughout our “diverse and changing world” and prompt students to interpret, analyze, synthesize, and develop their points of view.