Eclectic Approach
A BRIEF OVERVIEW
OF THE
ECLECTIC
APPROACH
BY: Tavane Brooks-Barrett
WHAT IS THE ECLECTC
APPROACH?
The
eclectic approach is the label given to a teacher’s use of techniques and activities from a range of teaching approaches and methodologies. HISTORY OF THE ECLECTIC
APPROACH
The
eclectic approach was proposed as a reaction to the profusion of teaching methods in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Eclecticism
was first recorded to have been practiced by a group of ancient Greek and
Roman philosophers who attached themselves to no real system, but selected from existing philosophical beliefs those doctrines that seemed most reasonable to them. HISTORY OF THE ECLECTIC
APPROACH
A
main proponent to this approach is
Rivers
(1981, Teaching Foreign Language
Skills) . According to Rivers this approach allows teachers “to absorb the best techniques of all the well-known language, into their classroom procedures, using them for the purposes for which they are most
HOW TO USE THE ECLECTIC
APPROACH
The
teacher decides what methodology or approach to use depending on the aims of the lesson and the learners in the group.
ADVANTAGES OF USING THE
ECLECTIC APPROACH
Offers a greater flexibility within the classroom.
Lesson can be modified to suit individual needs.
More likely to address more diversity of learners.
Shares the strengths of all the approaches that are used in the lesson/class. LIMITATIONS
Requires
more of the teacher. The teacher needs to be an expert of the approaches which will be used.
Share
the weaknesses of all approaches that are used.
May
be unsystematic and unfocused.
OF THE
ECLECTIC
APPROACH
BY: Tavane Brooks-Barrett
WHAT IS THE ECLECTC
APPROACH?
The
eclectic approach is the label given to a teacher’s use of techniques and activities from a range of teaching approaches and methodologies. HISTORY OF THE ECLECTIC
APPROACH
The
eclectic approach was proposed as a reaction to the profusion of teaching methods in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Eclecticism
was first recorded to have been practiced by a group of ancient Greek and
Roman philosophers who attached themselves to no real system, but selected from existing philosophical beliefs those doctrines that seemed most reasonable to them. HISTORY OF THE ECLECTIC
APPROACH
A
main proponent to this approach is
Rivers
(1981, Teaching Foreign Language
Skills) . According to Rivers this approach allows teachers “to absorb the best techniques of all the well-known language, into their classroom procedures, using them for the purposes for which they are most
HOW TO USE THE ECLECTIC
APPROACH
The
teacher decides what methodology or approach to use depending on the aims of the lesson and the learners in the group.
ADVANTAGES OF USING THE
ECLECTIC APPROACH
Offers a greater flexibility within the classroom.
Lesson can be modified to suit individual needs.
More likely to address more diversity of learners.
Shares the strengths of all the approaches that are used in the lesson/class. LIMITATIONS
Requires
more of the teacher. The teacher needs to be an expert of the approaches which will be used.
Share
the weaknesses of all approaches that are used.
May
be unsystematic and unfocused.