The study of sounds in a language and rules governing pronunciation.
What is Phonology?
100
Paul Meara said that this was a 'neglected aspect of language learning'.
What is vocabulary learning?
100
Immediate or practical goals.
What is Instrumental Motivation?
100
This student's son confirmed the importance of keeping his/her name as part of this person's cultural heritage.
Who is Anahid Bertrand?
200
CLT
What is Communicative Language Teaching?
200
Aspects of pronunciation such as rhythm, stress, and intonation.
What is suprasegmentals?
200
Best source of vocabulary growth.
What is reading for pleasure?
200
Students' appraisal of and reaction to their performance.
What is Motivation Retrospection?
200
This person has had over 6 knee surgeries.
Who is Bruno Vetter?
300
CPH
What is Critical Period Hypothesis?
300
The study of how language is used in context to express directness, politeness, and deference.
What is Pragmatics?
300
It is estimated that there are between ? and ? vocabulary words in English.
What is 100,000 to 1 million words depending how words are counted?
300
In a study by Renate Schulz, almost all students expressed a desire to have ? while very few teachers thought this was desirable.
What is a desire to have their errors corrected?
300
This person taught elementary school before doing UO Teach.
Who is Andy Priest?
400
MOLT
What is the Motivation Orientation of Language Teaching?
400
Words that sound alike but mean different things, such as 'cents', 'sense', 'scents'.
What are homonyms?
400
Non-technical material in Chinese and Japanese can usually be read with a knowledge of this many characters.
What are 2,000 characters?
400
This is often considered to be a particular problem for adolescents who are more self-conscious than younger learners.
What is 'inhibition'?
400
This person's deceased father was an amazing educator who influenced so many teachers of today.
Who is Ellen Heenan?
500
BAF project
What is the Barcelona Age Factor project?
500
A collection of oral or written language samples that can usually be accessed with computer-based tools. (Ex. newspapers)
What is corpus (plural: corpora)?
500
In order to incorporate a new word into memory, Paul Nation suggests that a learner has this many meaningful encounters with this word.
What are 16 times?
500
Despite the contradictory results and the problems involved in carrying out research in this area, it is believed that ? has an important influence in language learning.
What is personality?
500
The most fabulous group of all the UO Teach cohort subject areas.
Who are the students in the World Language Cohort?!