35 In Grammar Translation Method, errors are naturally; all language
learners make errors as they learn. Learning grammar rules consciously is not the only way they are learnt. They may help a learner to check the
correctness of what heshe is saying or writing, but they can be learnt or acquired in indirect ways too.49 The teacher reads a description of two-
word or phrasal verbs. If there some new that have not learned yet, the teacher will explain and the students are asked to translate it, then they
are given the role of some grammar. Finally they are asked to do the exercise based on the grammar rule that has been taught. The exercise
more on the writing skills, such as fill in the blanks, they fill in the blanks with new vocabulary items of a particular type, such verbs form
in the simple past tense. Then they write a composition based upon the vocabulary item or grammar rule that was given, memorize the
remaining vocabulary items and write sentences for each items.
6.
The Steps of Teaching Simple Past Tense through Grammar Translation Method in the Classroom
1. The class begins by reading a passage in
the students‟ book 2. The students are asked to translate into his native language the view
lines he has just read 3. The teacher helps him with new vocabulary items. When the students
have finished reading and translating the passage, the teacher asks them in native language if they have any questions.
4. The teacher answers their question by giving clear explanation through their native language.
5 The teacher asks them to write the answers to the comprehension questions which appear at the end of the excerpt.
7. The questions are in English, and they are instructed to write the answers in English as well.
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36 8. The students would be instructed to learn one set of vocabulary from
the passage by memorizing lists of first and second language. 9. The teacher explains about Simple Past Tense which is written on a
white board in detail and gives translation exercises related to what he or she just explained.
10 he students are doing the translation exercise
7. The Differences Between Audio Lingual Method and Grammar
Translation Method
There are some differences between Audio Lingual and Grammar Translation Method. Those are:
NO Audio Lingual Method
ALM Grammar Translation Method
GTM
1. The basic principles behind ALM
basically were taught through habit formation where skills are learned
more effectively if oral precedes written,
grammar is
taught inductively through analogy, not
analysis like the GTM The GTM basically are focus on
grammatical rules, memorization of vocabulary and of various
declensions and
conjugations, translations of texts and doing
written exercises
2, The objectives of ALM are to gain
control of structures of sound, form and order, mastery over symbols of
the language where the goal is to achieve native-speaker mastery with
virtually none of the grammar and translation found in traditional
classes The objectives of the GTM is to
gain reading proficiency in a foreign language which learners
learn for the sake of being scholarly and having the ability to
read and write literature where it is considered superior to spoken
language where languages were not being taught primarily to learn