The term "grammar-translation method"
Posted: December 31st, 2019, 2:40 pm
The term "grammar-translation method" has been used often in this forum. I think it has even been thought that we have invented it here. But I'm just doing some random reading and found this article from EAGLL:
https://www.academia.edu/40811004/ENCYC ... ng_Methods
Here's a quote:
https://www.academia.edu/40811004/ENCYC ... ng_Methods
Here's a quote:
Whoever started to use the term here, apparently knew it from somewhere else.The grammar-translation approach, which involved the word for word translation of the ancient text in a modern language, suggests a synthetic method for simple texts and an analytic method for more challenging texts. In the former, the ancient lexicon is replaced with words from the modern language without changing the word order or the text structure. In the latter case, the rational sequence of the text is studied so that the students can generally understand its meaning, overcome any difficulties and translate it.
Modern methods, on the other hand, move towards a more holistic approach to language, based on the autonomy of genres and the active and creative participation of students in the translation process.