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1. The four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing are carefully
graded and sequenced.
2. Common language competences are set for basic level.
3. Language functions are presented with the emphasis on using them for
communication.
4. Extra materials other than prescribed textbooks are required for extensive practice.
5. Subject matters to practice the language skills are updated.
6. Students' evaluation is expected to be based on the objectives of language skills and
alternative test items can be made for differently abled students.
7. The curriculum presents common proficiencies/competencies for this level and skillwise
objectives have been derived for separate grades from lower to higher difficulty
level. Separate list of language functions for each grade has been presented with
structures and sentences as examples.
8. The next part presents the elaboration matrix which mainly focuses on the language
functions. It provides possible teaching technique, teaching materials as well as
student assessment procedure. The skills are divided into four areas listening,
speaking, reading and writing, although in practice it is impossible to isolate them in
this way.
Note: For detail study, go through the original curriculum.
Approaches, Methods and Techniques in ELT
These words are often used in day to day conversation synonymously or interchangeably.
Let's now look at them more specifically and see how they are used in ELT specifically.
Approach
An approach is a set of co-relative assumptions dealing with the nature of language
teaching and learning. An approach is a philosophy of language teaching and learning. It
refers to the theories and principles of language, its nature and its teaching. Approach is
just a hypothesis, an untested truth, and it need not be proved. So an approach is
axiomatic in nature.
Method
Method can be defined as 'an overall plan for the orderly presentation of language
material. A method discusses the processes and procedures of language teaching. In other
words, a method is a set of procedures, which is used in a systematic way in the
classroom. It deals with the steps to be followed in the class while teaching. So it is
procedural in nature. A method grows out of an approach. There can be many methods
within one approach.
Technique
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