Chapter 3 is including variety of teaching and learning skills such as cognitivism, behaviorism, humanism, constructivism, philosophy, mastery learning and direct teaching.
All of these skills are useful and especially, I would like to talk about TPR (Total Physical Response). When I worked at the English Kindergarten, I read story books to children for four to seven age groups. Every time, I taught key sentences with TPR and after finishing one story book, children could speak out about 30 key sentences just looking at the TPR. It was amazing!
I like these methods for young children. They usually have very short span time so teacher needs to attract their attention often. In case of TPR, there are lots of interaction between teacher and whole group of students or individual student. Teacher speaks and students respond nonverbally, then students use more verbal and teacher responds nonverbally.
Grammar translation method sounds like the teaching style most of my English teachers used. When I was a student, my teachers did not speak in English. They used Korean for explanation and the class was totally teacher to students interaction.
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