Input
It is a way of igniting learners in the Caribbean through a call and response chant that means a story is about to begin, starting with the initials C.C
What is Crick Crack?
Teachers break learning into manageable pieces or c... for learners
What is CHUNKS?
For new neural pathways to consolidate, the learner has to apply their new understanding within how many hours?
What is 24 hours?!!!!
Researchers, especially Krashen, have studied if language learning is possible without INTENTION? Such learning is sometimes called incidental learning. The best know examples of incidental learning where you are not consciously trying to pick up vocabulary is when readers are mostly fluent and doing what for pleasure?
What is READING or READING FOR PLEASURE.
Research shows that when reading at a fluency point learners can learn vocabulary through reading.
A dictation that is done multiple times with the idea that language students will piece together the dictation and have to discuss language points to get the dictation written down "correctly" or close to what the teacher dictates. The students are discussing the dictation.
What is an dictagloss?
Zaretta Hammond's suggests this Jackson Five song could be played by the teacher to get students ignited for literacy time.
What is "ABC"?
In a 40-minute class, the brain takes in information for about how long maximum before it cycles down for about 5-10 minutes no matter what the teacher does according to Sousa, 2001?
What is 20 minutes?
A great way to have fun and review information
What is GAMES!
Following our learning about how we process input into our brains, language learners have a difficult time picking up oral language that is repeated by the teacher called.....r
When you give students two very closely related pictures, scientific charts, information, or even stories that are similar but have a number of differences or gaps. Partner A has to negotiate with Partner B to see what is different. Researchers use this to get students to negotiate language and study how they socially interact.
What is an InfoGAP?
In SLA the Applied Linguist from the University of Hawaii, Richard Schmidt, realized when studying Portuguese in Brazil, that if he did not NOTICE and do something with the language he was hearing, this learning would not stick. What is this hypothesis called?
What is the NOTICING HYPOTHESIS?
Word Play and Humor are an excellent challenge and work out for processing. What trash talk can be carefully modified (keeping "insults" friendly and funny). For example, If you have a pair of feet, why are a pair of boots not called beet?
In research design what is more powerful than a post-test because of the extra time you give before the test
What is a DELAYED POST TEST? If you have 4 weeks for a study for example, you would have a pre-test in week 1, an intervention or teaching in week 2, a post-test in week 3 and a delayed post-test in week 4 to see if the learning really stuck,.
Researchers will ask a learner their thoughts and feelings during a task and jot down what the learner says in order to see how they are processing. This is called....
What is a Think ALOUD or STIMULATED RECALL
When you take an interview transcript and check for themes, researchers sometimes call this analysis checking for codes or C--------ing.
What is CODING?
Selecting an eye-opening quote with strong emotion, a challenging puzzle or riddle to be solved at the start of the class to WAKE STUDENTS UP is called what by Hammond, (the word starts with a P).
What is provocation? You provoke students to activate their attention.
Discussion protocols like Four on a Pencil, World Cafe, and Give one Get One help students TALK to .....
What is Talk to learn also known as instructional talk
When you give dependent learners cognitive routines and challenges you build what kind of learner?
What is an independent learner!
Unsurprisingly the more explicit a teacher is in correcting a student the more the student notices their error. An interaction where the teacher provides comments, feedback, questions or other ways to point the learner to an error is called a Metalinguistic Cue, or a Recast.
What is a METALINGUISTIC CUE
An interview with topics but which also allows researchers to ask follow-up questions and follow the participant into a "tangent".
What is a semi-structured interview?
This is the part of the brain that helps a student decide what to focus on. It also helps the student filter out extraneous information and focus on what is important. It is also the flight, fright or freeze button for trauma!
What is the RAS, or the recticular activating system?
One of the most transformative ways to elaborate or process and remember content is through this mode, that starts with an S
In the language classroom, an approach that capitalizes on meaningful learning and pushing students past their current level includes activities called.....t.....s
What is tasks or task-based learning
Attention to a language error is only held by a learner temporarily in which kind of memory: WORKING MEMORY or LONGTERM MEMORY
WORKING MEMORY, this is why more elaboration and review will be needed over time so that it becomes something that we can say is LEARNED.
Teachers will make vocabulary that is important salient and noticeable through a number of annotations. These can include underlines, bold face or changing color. Changing the INPUT or text is called.
What is enhancing input or enhanced input?