please i need the urgent help

**MIDO** · 30-03-2007, 10:39 PM

Hellow every body
i have a problem and i realy need the help from any one who have an idea or know something about it
i know it is a linguistics section and my case relating to teaching methodology but i have no other choice and iam sure that you will help me
the doctor of essay course asked us to write a research and it should be profissional one so i chose to write about the natural approach he said it is a special one but i should select a specific topic in this feild and iam very interested in this field . i thought of how to achieve or to approve this method here in saudi arabia so i need the advice is it good enough to write agraduation research about it or if you have any idea to write about i will be very thankfull
also i need something else

i know i had ask alot of things if you know any sources of essays written in journals abou this method
thanks alot for this great site
may Allah bless you all

**Try To Reach** · 31-03-2007, 12:24 AM

,, Hello dear MIDO
and Welcome on abroad to our modest section in here
I'm really grateful to see a college boy writing like this ,, this shows clearly how highly educated you are ,, so cheeeerz up my friend every thing 'll be ok with you insha'Allah

so i need the advice is it good enough to write agraduation research about it or if you have any idea to write about i will be very thankfull

you want to do a research about what they call ( the natural approach ) i knew this approach very well i have studied it hardly when i was at College but i have studied so different ones like it things like ( Total Phyzical Response ) and (Direct meathod ) and other approaches any how now alas i hardly can differentiate between either of them loooooool so any way don't feel disappointed I'll try to reach your goal and help you with some books you need ,,

A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing

and this page is ful of books that talk about the natural language
just right click on (PDF) and download them all

i'm not over yet but waiting to hear more from you dear MIDO

take this book and don't ever think to miss it

here right click

also i need something else

i know i had ask alot of things if you know any sources of essays written in journals abou this method

in Journals ,, you mean Arabic ones !! I'm not sure really but for English Articles i have this site which is full of papers that talk about the natural approac
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/Methods.html

Also,, look you can make a great use of the books above
and about this Second thing ( Journals ) I think we should search hardly and it is not that easy
but ok ok look if you know some of the Scholars related to this approach you may find what you need !! I mean if you search for the names more rather than for Ideas of this school

I'm waiting to hear your presence Sir

4now God bless you

**MIDO** · 02-04-2007, 08:53 PM

Hellow dear Try to Reach
thanks alot for your scented words and also for the great valuable books i realy appreciating this thing .. about the research i want your opinions about the following;
i thought about starting the research talking about the roles of the two main factors of teaching process [the teacher and the student] according to TERRELL and KRASHEN whome are the puplishers of this method then moving to say how these roles could be done in our shcools mentionong at the end some exampels and some real experiences
so...... what do you think? what are your comments.
also tell me about your experience with this method i might mention it in my research
your opinions and advices are very important to me
again thanks alot for your great efforts
may ALLAH bless you

**Try To Reach** · 03-04-2007, 02:53 AM

Hello , again dear / MIDO

in fact what we took in college when we were studying, Language and Culture Second Language Acquisitionand Applied linguistics also Methods of teaching and that Approaches too at that time we read something so far from what you
!! asked about!! I guess

especially when it comes to Stephen Krashen
Cuz what we strudied for this Guy

is something like Monitor Response or the affective filter hypothesis

I don't remember really

and there were many Scientists too and not only our friend Krashen
Besides,, i don't remember exactly if we really studied something about TERRELL

but any way I can help you with the following Quoted sentences
they are really useful

with the students' participation the classroom becomes an environment suitable for acquisition.

The best methods are therefore those that supply 'comprehensible input' in low anxiety situations, containing messages that students really want to hear. These methods do not force early production in the second language, but allow students to produce when they are 'ready', recognizing that improvement comes from supplying communicative and comprehensible input, and not from forcing and correcting production

Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language - natural communication - in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding

Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require tedious drill

In the real world, conversations with sympathetic native speakers who are willing to help the acquirer understand are very helpful