Learning a Language
This is a process that all humans do similarly when learning.
What is a learning process?
This term describes schools and institutions that teach literacy in TWO different languages.
What is Dual Immersion?
This TWO-word answer explains how someone may behave because they feel judged by a group or community of people.
What is peer pressure?
This term describes the ability to switch between two languages, sometimes mid-conversation.
What is Code-Switching?
Words such as "dude, bro, cool, and rad" for Californians, and "period, slay, and ate down" for Gen Z, describe which linguistic feature of language?
What is lexicon?
When speaking a new language, a person may pronounce words in a way that aligns more with their primary language.
What is an accent?
The method of instruction is described as the best option. It allows students to practice language in real-life situations.
What is Content-Based Instruction?
This term encompasses four possible stages one may encounter when learning a new language or culture.
Honeymoon, Horror, Humor, or Home
What is Acculturation?
This term refers to making a mistake in the first language because of the second language, or vice versa.
What is the L1/L2 Interference?
This TWO part answer describes:
1. Choirces that are made and effort expended in anticipation of rewards
2. Choices that are made and effort expended with NO expectations of rewards.
What is extrinsic and intrinsic motivation?
The willingness to try something new despite the possibility of being wrong.
What is risk-taking?
This term means to "distinguish a mistake from an error." It's knowing the student's mistakes, how to fix them, and applying them.
What is Error Analysis?
Describes the mistaken idea or belief that many people have about a group. False assumptions are made based on the exterior of an individual or group.
What are Cultural Stereotypes?
This term describes the process in which incorrect language becomes a habit and cannot be easily corrected.
What is Fossilization?
This is the idea that "we learn 10% of information we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see, and 90% of what we teach someone else."
What is Glasser's View of Learning?
The identity a person develops in reference to the language they speak.
What is Language Ego?
This THREE-part answer:
The concepts that will determine your teaching, the delivery of the information, and the strategies you use outside of the classroom.
What are Approaches, Methods, and Techniques?
This term refers to an individual's ability to effectively handle a new situation, particularly when learning new concepts.
What is tolerance of ambiguity?
An individual who learns two languages in the same environment, so that they acquire one notion with two expressions.
"One picture in the brain, but two ways to say it."
What is a compound bilingual?
This concept poses TWO classroom styles:
1. The instructor is the deliverer of all the information, while the students sit and listen.
2. The students take control, and they learn from one another.
What are Teacher-Centered vs. Student-Centered classrooms?
This theory describes how learning a language is biologically easier for children and that the older you are, the more difficult it is to learn a new language.
What is Critical Period Hypothesis?
This list, that we should ALL follow and remember, includes topics such as:
Use right-brain processes, engage in cooperative learning, and encourage risks.
What are Brown's Ten Commandments for Good Language Teaching?
This philosophical idea explains that reality is determined by how we think, which is influenced by language.
"Language influences how we perceive the world."
What is the Whorfian Hypothesis?
What is communicative competence?
This person believed that language skills are required for social communication, and the understanding of specialized language is necessary for success in the classroom.
Who is Jim Cummins?