SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION FOR LEARNERS.

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Teaching and acquiring second foreign languages are necessary to have various knowledge that relate to different ways or methodologies. As a known initially the people have (L1.) mother tongue after the birth. It is learned from the way of audition and this acquisition starts with maternity and infanthood. The mother tongue learners learn the main rules and patterns which is L1. Therefore, second language acquisition becomes impalpable. Most of educators tired to solve this problem with different kinds of approaches and applications of curriculums that is based on T-S. In addition, a number of investigators start to do researches and put forward various approaches. In the course of time, some of these approaches were applied. At the same time, every approach which puts forward is destroyed than the previous application. Nowadays many of students who study at teaching second language acquisition learn different kinds of methodologies. These methodologies support the effective acquisition. So a number of teacher and students benefit from these methods. This year we were one of them. We see that many of them such as, terminologies and methodologies based on different period during the history. Our lecture name is Foreign Language Teaching Methods. Briefly these methodologies are Grammar Translation Method (GTM), Direct Method (DM), The Audio-Lingual Method (ALM), The Silent Way (SW), Suggestopedia, Communicative Language Learning, and Community Lang. Learning, The Lexical Approach, Comparative Learning, Content Based Learning, Task-Based Learning and Past Method.
There are lot of approaches and methods for teaching and learning foreign language effectively. Every approach includes truth value but wrong value or at that time considere...

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...c communicative cognitive cultural and linguistic awareness are effective. Unfortunately in our country, post method effects are seen only private school. I graduated in public school and I did not see this type of curriculum until university.
In conclusion, language learning has extensive area and to host a lot of methodologies and approaches. These kinds of approaches prove a huge of support to effective teaching and learning. Every approach has deficiency. Especially pre-methods approach like Grammar-translation and silent way methods. The importance issue is teacher aware of difference in these methods. In the past time or modern time are not the same but the teacher should set up to relative between to each other. All of the methods or approaches should be known but the most proper method/approaches should be chosen for cultivating effective language learners.

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