The structural approach teaches all four central language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It’s a technique that teachers can implement with many other language teaching methods.

Proponents of the structural approach understand language as a set of grammatical rules that should be learned one at a time in a specific order. It focuses on mastering these structures, building one skill on top of another, instead of memorizing vocabulary.

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Timestamp for the structural approach:
0:00 Intro
0:09 What is the structural approach to teaching language?
0:28 The structural approach is all about grammar
0:40 An example of the structural approach
1:04 Outro

Transcript for the structural approach to teaching languages:

What is the structural approach to teaching language? So the structural approach is all about teaching grammar rules in a specific order.

Most ESL textbooks are designed this way actually. If you go to a level one textbook, you'll see the very, very simple grammar things in that first textbook and then the subsequent grammar rules will often build upon what has been previously taught. It's all about grammar in this correct order.

It's not about memorizing vocabulary or lists. Vocabulary just kind of comes as a natural byproduct of learning these grammar rules.

An example is that students will have to master the "to be" verb. So I am, he is, they are, in the simple present before moving on to the present continuous which uses the be verb as a helper verb. That's just one quick example. You wouldn't jump into the present continuous before teaching the simple present.

All four skills are covered in this. That's about it for the structural approach. You can kind of still see it in many different approaches and methods of teaching English. It just makes sense that you would cover the easier things first before the more difficult things.

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