What is the structural approach to teaching language? | Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

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. Watch the full video to learn more about what the structural approach really is! ------- • Check out this blog post for more details on the structural approach, plus three more teaching method • If you liked this video, find my teaching playlist here: ------ Check out my Tips for Teaching ESL/EF book: https://ww