A history of methods and approaches to language teaching
What is Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)?
Refers to the choices that are made about particular skills to be taught, the content to be taught, and the order in which the content will be presented.
What is a method?
A strategy used by a teacher to capture students' attention.
What is an attention getter?
A popular children's game that uses TPR. It's a great way to check comprehension of vocabulary related to body parts.
What is Simon Says?
The act of assigning meaning to what is heard
What is listening?
Is built around the coordination of speech and action;
listening should be accompanied by physical
movement
What is Total Physical Response (TPR)
Refers to the subconscious process identical in all important ways to the process children utilize in acquiring their first language
What is acquisition?
The periods of time between activities
What are transitions?
A fun activity in which the teacher puts different objects in an opaque bag. Students have to reach into the bag, touch an object and describe it.
What is the 'Mystery bag'?
the ability to speak or write fluidly and confidently
What is fluency?
Real-life communication is sought. Learners are engaged in meaningful and authentic language.
What is the Communicative Approach?
Refers to the conscious process in which the learner is made to learn about the linguistic rules of the target language.
What is learning?
A map on the wall, so students have a visual cue of every part of the class period
What is a routine map?
An activity where students have to find the differences between two pictures.
What is 'Spot the difference'?
is the physiological process “through which sound waves are collected through the ear and auditory information is transmitted to the brain
What is hearing?
Drilling is a central technique of this method
What is the Audiolingual Method?
Refers to the theories about the nature of language and language learning that serve as the source of practices and principles in language teaching
What is an approach?
Short activities that are useful when children have been concentrating hard on an activity and need some time to revitalize.
What are brain breaks?
An activity where students bring an object from home and present it to the group
What is 'Show and tell'?
A tool used for teaching in which the teacher says a sentence and the students respond in unison
What is Choral Response?
A method that makes use of translation and grammar for learning a second or foreign language
What is the Grammar-Translation method?
Without directly indicating that the student's utterance was incorrect, the teacher implicitly reformulates the student's error, or provides the correction.
In Spanish it's normally referred to as 'Asamblea'
What is 'Morning circle' (or circle time)?
An activity that practices a particular skill and often involves repeating the same thing several times, especially a military exercise intended to train soldiers.
What is a drill?
The ability to produce correct sentences using correct grammar and vocabulary
What is accuracy?