According to Lev Vygotsky, the state a student is in for a particular task, providing the appropriate assistance, it will give the student enough "boost" to achieve a certain task.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
100
Krashen's Monitor Model of SLA is based on theoretical research of this linguist.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
100
This method involves implementing practices consistent with our beliefs about language, learning, teaching and curriculum.
What is Principled Teaching?
100
These are a good source of help for teachers to understand emerging bilinguals
What is Case Studies?
100
The teacher, Ms. Yurkovertsky, defines success when students make connections in their learning process to real-life situations and think critically. She defines this as………..
What is a Teachable Moment?
200
Lev Vygotsky defines another important theoretical construct: ideas that we develop from everyday experience and abstract ideas that we use to organize and categorize experience.
What are Spontaneous and Scientific Concepts?
200
This Krashen's theory states that factors, such as boredom, intimidation or anxiety can prevent learners from receiving comprehensible input.
What is the Affective Filter Hypothesis?
200
These are three ways a teacher can mediate learning and experience, and help learners gain new understandings.
What are Direct Instruction, Modeling, and Scaffolding?
200
This concept takes into consideration societal influences (national, state, community and family levels) that have an effect on emerging bilinguals.
What is the Contextual Interaction Model?
200
This is looking at a language as a general and social context in which communication takes place.
What is Language as Action?
300
In order to study how children acquire their first language, researchers have to rely on this.
What is Linguistic Output?
300
Schumann's psychological distance predictor in SLA lists these three factors determining how far/close a learner is from the target language and culture.
What are Motivation, Attitude, and Culture Shock?
300
Teachers use the method when they provide different levels of support and feedback (hints, range of possible answers) to meet individual needs.
What is Scaffolding?
300
This type of emerging bilinguals lived in the US most of their lives, began their schooling speaking a language other than English, and their parents usually struggle financially and socially.
Who are Potential Long-term English Learners?
300
When all students have access to quality curriculum, intellectually challenging tasks and equal status interaction with their peers.
What is Equitable Classrrom?
400
This Swiss developmental psychologist regarded cognitive development in children as a process which occurs due to biological maturation and interaction with the environment.
Who is Jean Piaget?
400
This Dutch linguist claimed that when learners begin to comprehend input, it changes into intake which is retained and accessed later as an uptake.
Who is Leo Van Lier?
400
In this approach to teaching grammar, Derewianka suggests to teach grammar forms and functions through modeling, joint construction, and individual practice.
What is Language as a Functional Resource?
400
These current legislative requirements have lead to the greatest impact on teachers of emerging bilinguals.
What are English Only laws and NCLB?
400
This Pulitzer-prize winning journalist says: “Actions are illegal, never people”.
Who is Jose Antonio Vargas?
500
A study in which the same learners are studied over a period of time. This contrasts with a cross-sectional study.
What is longitudinal study?
500
This method of SLA involves building up the field, modeling and deconstruction, joint construction, and independent construction.
What is Curriculum Cycle?
500
This method uses critical inquiry to enable learners to relate content to their individual lives and experience and consider social issues relevant to their lives, beliefs, and culture.
What is Transformative Pedagogy?
500
This perspective on the academic failure of minority groups states that certain cultures fail to succeed because their culture is different from mainstream culture.
What is Cultural Mismatch?
500
When more and more people in the world speak English as a lingua franca, and hybrid languages are increasingly used in business, music, literature, and the visual arts .