NATURAL APPROACH

This method is based on observing how children acquire their mother tongue, so they choose to speak when it is ready. We, as teachers, must help our students to understand us by using pictures and occasional words in the students’ native language, which is allowed to be used along with the target one.  

Krashen and Terrel developed this method in the late 70’s and early 80’s. The communication becomes the main target to the teacher in the classroom.