Different pespectives of Human Learning
Pavlov and Skinner were _____.
Behaviorists
What are the learning styles in SLA? List as many as you can.
Field Independence and Field Sensitivity; LB/RB Dominance; Ambiguity Tolerance; Reflectivity and Impulsivity; Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Styles.
True or False: Planning, Organizing, Monitoring, Evaluating, Using senses, Activating Knowledge, Contextualization, and Going Beyond the Data are all Cognitive Strategies.
Answer: True
Lev Vygotsky, a social constructivist, would say that learning occurs…A. By teachers depositing knowledge into students’ minds, B. Through collaboration with peers, C. Analyzing examples in a textbook
Answer: B
Left Brain dominant L2 learners preferred an inductive approach to teaching. True or False?
False. LB - Deductive.
Using an L1 word with L1 pronunciation while speaking in L2 is an example of
A. Appeal to authority B. Word Coinage. C. Circumlocution D. Code switching. E. All of the above
Which perspective of human learning would say that humans are pre-programmed to learn language because we are born with a Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?
Answer: Cognitivism
What are the differences between reflective and impulsive learning styles?
Reflective: make fewer errors; inductive reasoning, slower/accurate
Impulsive: faster readers, good guessers.
Name a strategy or action that encourages risk-taking.
Answer: (1) Praise students, (2) Use fluency exercises where errors are not corrected at that time, (3) Give outside-of-class assignments to speak or write or otherwise try out the language