What is the Bilingual Method of Teaching English? | Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

The Bilingual Method allows the teacher and students to use two different languages; one is the target language to be learned and the other is their native language which is used to achieve the target language English. Watch the full video to learn what the Bilingual Method is and the pros and cons of teaching this method. ------- • Check out this blog post for more details on the bilingual approach to teaching: https://teachinginkoreanuniversity.com/bilingual-method-of-teaching/ • If you liked this video, watch my Presentation practice production (PPP) video here: https://youtu.be/5JTdBLKNyWg • If you like my teaching method videos, you might enjoy: How to teach an ESL class (English as a Second Language) by @Etacude English Teachers https://youtu.be/oYCNd_NPvkE ------ Check out my Tips for Teaching ESL/EF book: https://amzn.to/3PgRsla https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #esl #teachingenglishwithjackie #teachingmethod ------------------------------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Transcript for the Bilingual Method: I'm going to talk about the bilingual method of teaching a language is. First of all, what is the bilingual method? It's when you use two languages in a class to teach a language. So for example, if you're teaching in Korea, the students would use Korean as their mother tongue and then you would also be using English in that class. So how does it work? Well, the explanation is in Korean or Japanese—the grammar rules and the vocabulary but then the rest of the class is conducted in English. What are some of the pros of the bilingual method? Well, first of all, it can help students achieve fluency because most of the class is conducted in English. There's just a little part, the explanation part that is conducted in the mother tongue but then they're spending the rest of the class focused on English. It can save time so if you are explaining a complicated grammar rule (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2SRvoaB6f4&) or a vocabulary item just using a little, little bit of their native language or having maybe a co-teacher or something like that, that would use a simple explanation in the native language. The next pro is accuracy. So this can help students achieve greater accuracy because they've had a good explanation of what the grammar point is. Or, what that vocabulary item is. The next pro is that it's easy to teach. This means that a lot of teachers can use this method. For example, if someone is not that confident in English but they are teaching English, they might not be able to explain quite complicated grammar rules in English. That's not that easy to do actually, but if they can explain it in their own native language that can really help them and can help the students. What are some of the cons of the bilingual method? First of all, it can lead to a bit of confusion if you're switching between English and then another language. Maybe students aren't sure about exactly when they should be using each language and they may try to use their native language when they actually should be using English in kind of the production phase of the class. Another con is that it's better for beginners, rather than higher-level students. Beginners may want a class where the teacher is explaining grammar things in their native language. The next issue is there might be some pronunciation issues. This can lead to people kind of like learning English through their own alphabet which is a bit of a struggle sometimes. So learning English through English is actually a great way to prevent that because they're always separate and they would never be taught together. And the next thing is that you can kind of find some examples of blended language. So this is where students will kind of use a mix of two different languages at the same time. Like English or Korean instead of just walking into class and then they know it's all English, all the time. That's the bilingual method. There are certainly some pros and certainly some cons. Timestamp Bilingual method 0:00 Intro 0:09 What is the bilingual method? 0:30 How does the bilingual method work? 0:42 Bilingual method pros 2:03 Bilingual method cons 3:39 Conclusion Tags: Bilingual Method, What is the Bilingual Method, the Bilingual Method of Teaching English, bilingual approach, types of bilingual, bilingual method, advantages of bilingual method, disadvantages of bilingualism, what is bilingual, new methods of teaching english language, methods in teaching, language teaching method, first day of class, class planning, Language Teaching, methods in teaching English, methods in English, teaching grammar