EnterTheories of Language LearningWorld-Readiness Standards Category Name
World-Readiness Standards
Standards, Competencies, Guidelines
Prominent Teaching Methods Today
Potpourri
100

This idea from Krashen states that acquisition only occurs when learners receive i+1 language from another source

Input hypothesis

100

Name the C that should be addressed in each and every language lesson

Communication

100

The five main levels on the 2012 ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines

Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Superior, Distinguished

100

This approach incorporates all other approaches according to the creative planning of the teacher

eclecticism

100

: ACTFL’s recommendation for the percentage of class you should spend in the target language

90%

200

This idea from Krashen states that language acquisition must occur in a context where anxiety is low in order for the learner to notice the input

Affective Filter hypothesis

200

What the 5 Cs stand for.

Communication, Cultures, Comparisons, Connections, Communities

200

The 21st Century Skills are designed to connect foreign language education with this

Other core academic areas / the US Education system / Common Core

200

In a pure content-based curriculum, students are assessed on this

Content

200

What are two definitions of authenticity?

things that someone might say in the target community, materials made by and for native speakers

300

This idea from Swain states that input is a necessary but insufficient condition for language development

Output hypothesis

300

The three Communication Standards

Interpersonal, Presentational, Interpretive

300

What are the names of the three main competencies in the Iowa World Language Competencies?

interpersonal, interpretive, presentational

300

This method often has students orally practice targeted language structures in pairs.  

Communicative Language Teaching

300

What teaching method is used in immersion schools?  

content-based instruction

400

Two distinctive ways of categorizing theories of language learning.

Cognitivist versus sociocultural

400

The words associated with “the 3 Ps,” and what they mean

Products, Practices, Perspectives

400

Foreign language teachers of commonly taught languages (Spanish, French, German) should be at this level on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines

Advanced-low

400

TPRS/CI is based in large part on the language learning theories of this individual.

Stephen Krashen

400

Name two historical teaching approaches that are no longer used precisely as they are today

grammar-translation, audio-lingual, natural approach

500

Spell the word said by your instructor, and identify one other major term associated with that word

Vygotskyan” and ZPD/scaffolding

500

What are the two Standards associated with the Connections C

Interdisciplinarity and use of authentic materials.

500

Name 3 of the 12 areas of the 21st Century Skills

Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking & Problem Solving, Creativity and Innovation, Information Literacy, Media Literacy, Technology Literacy, Flexibility and Adaptability, Initiative and Self-Direction, Social and Cross-Cultural Skills, Productivity and Accountability, Leadership and Responsibility

500

Give the words that correspond to all of these acronyms: CBI, TPRS, CI, CLT, IRE, and IRF.  

Content-based instruction; Total Physical Response Storytelling or Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling; comprehensible input; communicative language teaching; initiation-response-evaluation; initiation-response-feedback.

500

Identify the differences between the cognitivist hypotheses of language learning of Krashen, Long, and Swain.

Krashen = input; Long = interaction; Swain = output

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