TAXONOMY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING TECHNIQUES IN TEACHING READING

Abstract

English language teaching techniques have various categorization.
Those techniques covering for main skills in English namely reading,
listening, speaking and writing. The concept incorporates
classification of type of activity that enables teachers to pick out the
sequential activity within the lesson. Based on Behaviorism theory,
language learning is a process of reinforcement repetition that
proposed three stages of learning that are called presentation,
practice and production (PPP). The three step PPP aimed at
developing automatic habits largely through classroom processes of
modeling, repetition, and controlled practice. Brown classifies the
taxonomy into three broad categories: controlled technique, semicontrolled
technique, and free technique. Teachers have a dominant
control in controlled technique. In free technique, teachers are usually
put into a less controlled role here, as students become free to be
creative with their responses and interactions with other students.
Semi controlled technique is the combination of the both categories.
Keywords: taxonomy of language teaching, controlled technique,
semi-controlled technique, free technique.