KUMARAVADIVELU, B. (1994, p.28-29)
points out three important categories of language
teaching method: language-centered, learnercentered and learning-centered. Although, from the
practitioner’s point of view, none of these methods can
be realized in their purest form in the actual classroom,
the sample below can be classified as follow:
Introductory classroom
Young EFL learners in an English language
school.
Teacher starts the class asking a strong learner,
‘Enzo, how are you?’ The learner responds, ‘Fine,
how are you?’. The teacher continues, asking
different learners, who respond in turn:
Teacher: Sophia, how are you?
Student: Fine, how are you?
Teacher: Francisco, how are you?
Student: Fine, how are you?
Teacher: Valentina, how are you?
Student: Fine, how are you?
If a learner struggles to produce the response, the
teacher demonstrates the correct utterance by first
mouthing the syllables and then saying them aloud
if necessary. The teacher corrects pronunciation,
particularly emphasizing the /h/ sound in ‘how’ by
breathing on her/his hand as if using a mirror, and
drills the prompts with the students. The activity
continues until every learner has been asked and has provided the correct response.