CONTENT BASED INSTRUCTION (CBI)

Actually I don`t like this method at all! In my point of view it is not useful as the other methods are. I think that this method doesnt fullfill the student`s needs to learn a second language because students need to understand certain things in order to learn a foreign language, but what can they do if they don`t understand even a word of the content they are studying???

It`s important to mencion that students learn about interesting topics that they like, and that`s good, but I think that it would be better if they first learn the basis of the language and then we as teachers assign them tasks in which the content of the things they like is involved.

This method is similar to the whole method because it is based mostly on reading what students like. As I said once it might be so much difficult to the teacher to choose the topics, the activities, etc. Because we all know that students are very very different and almost all of them have different tastes. 

Nevertheless it has something good because it develop student`s analizing in every topic they study because at the end they make like a conclusion about the content they have just studied. I would apply it not in order to teach a second langage but to make student get involved with interesting topics after they have learned the foreign language!

TASK BASED

This method could be useful with people who are mature because if we do it with students who are not mature enough we are going to be in trouble. I like this method because it makes students work hard while they research, while they develop the activities that the teacher assign them. So that the student is active and he/she is creating his/her own learning.

In this method the teacher just plan the activities students will do and is like a counselor solving the doubts that students get when they are involved in the task.

In the future I hope to apply this method to make students be active in the class room as well as out the classroom. But I rather used some other methods in order to make my student`s learning effective.

COMMUNITY LANGUAGE LEARNING (CLL)

I think that this method is kind of great because it has some characteristics from some other methods. Now that I have studied the previous ones I can notice it. For example: The teacher is a counselor, learning is inductively, students decide topics, etc. As we can see all these characteristics belong to the other methods, like the whole method, the task based, etc. The only thing that I noticed kind of strange is that the teacher translates. But anyway that was part of the grammar translation method too. 

Basically this method is based in the use of the target language communicatively, that`s why I think that this method is good. It also makes emphasis in the use of technology, for example recording student`s dialogs.

Something that I like is that students learn to analize in the target language. Besides they learn like in a community as its name says. They learn from one another, that means that there is an interaction between them, as a result, they are active. This method develops almost the 4 macro-skills in students and that`s something really important for me, thinking as a student as well as a teacher. I would like to apply it!!!