Key Terms #1
The study of the system of sounds.
What is Phonology?
The claim that there is a period in someone’s life where they can biologically acquire a language more quickly; after this period, acquiring a language can be more challenging.
What is Critical Age?
The identity of individuals in their native and additional language.
What is Language Ego?
The process through which individuals adopt cultural norms, values, and behaviors of a different culture.
What is acculturation?
FANBOY is an example of this type of punctuation rule.
What is a comma rule?
The study of the formation of words.
What is Morphology?
The way a person pronounces words that are not in their native tongue; shows the influence of the first language on the second language.
What is an accent?
The tendency to be focused predominantly on external things or social interactions rather than on internal thoughts and feelings.
What is extroversion?
A system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that a group of people accept and use.
What is culture?
Fix the Comma Error in this Sentence:
When I go with my friends I enjoy going to the mall.
What is there should be a comma after 'friends'?
The Sequence of First Language Development.
What is Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing (LSRW)?
When you make a mistake in a second language as a result of your first language.
What is L1/L2 interference?
An individual's capacity to embrace uncertainty or ambiguity without feeling anxiety.
What is tolerance of ambiguity?
A society that values people as interdependent, and believes in group achievement is a _______ society.
What is a collectivist society?
The three domains that encompass Second Language Acquisition concepts and ideologies.
What are the Linguistic, Cognitive, and Affective Domains?
Teaching only through content; not teaching grammar or the target language.
What is Content-Based Instruction?
The individual who suggested that there are multiple intelligences.
Who is Howard Gardner?
The four types of anxiety.
What is Trait, State, Facilitative, and Debilitative?
The four stages of culture shock.
What are honeymoon, horror, humor, and home?
Krashen's theory which states that students acquire less knowledge when they experience high levels of stress.
What is an Affective Filter?
The difference between what a learner can do without help and what they can achieve with guidance.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
This theory claims that for learning to be meaningful, students must relate newly learned material to previous experiences or knowledge.
What is Ausubel's Meaningful Learning Theory?
The difference between Global and Situational Self-esteem.
What is an individual's overall perspective of their self-worth and feelings of self-worth that fluctuate based on specific circumstances?
The relatively permanent incorporation of incorrect linguistic forms into a person’s second language competence.
What is Fossilization?
The language our professor spoke at the beginning of the first day of class to introduce us to the anxieties SLLs would experience.
What is German?