Selasa, 10 Mei 2011

GRAMMAR TRANSLATION METHOD



A. BACKGROUND OF GRAMMAR TRANSLATION METHOD
          The first concern with language teaching method had to do with the teaching of Latin and Greek grammars. The method used at that time were mostly designed to enable people to speak, read and write Latin. All of the method were related to the method which was popularly known as the Grammar Translation Method. With the invention of printing of reproduction of Greek and Latin classics became easy, and, therefore the method was no longer effective to teach the languages. There were a number of attempts to improve the teaching of the languages. One attempt was suggested by meidenger (1783), who advocated translation into the target language through the application of rules of grammar. Karl Plotz (1819-1881) also improved the teaching method; his method was divided into two parts:
     1. rules and paradigms
     2. sentences from translation into and out of the target language