Key Terms
Lowering the ______ allows learners to receive more comprehensible input and thus enables them to acquire more of the second language
What is Affective Filter?
What hypothesis has been useful in explaining why individual students make different amounts of progress when presented with the same input?
What method required to analyze and memorize the rules of grammar, then translate sentences between two languages?
What is the Grammar-Translation Method?
What hypothesis points out that students cannot learn specific language features unless they notice them?
What is the Noticing Hypothesis
What is the process by which individuals acquire the knowledge and practices that enable them to participate effectively in a language community?
What is Language Socialization?
What hypothesis asserts that students acquire or learn parts of a language in a predictable order?
What is the Natural Order Hypothesis?
What method was based on the theory of mechanical havit formation, through memorization and drills that were focused on language structures?
What is the Audiolingual Method?
_______ argues that the sequence in which students learn certain language features depends on how easy they are to learn.
Comprehensible _____ is represented by the formula i +1?
What hypothesis is described as a little language teacher in out heads reminding us of the rules?
What is the Monitor Hypothesis?
What method was criticized for "lacking a clear focus" for teachers?
What is the Natural Approach?
What hypothesis needs comprehensible input through modified interactions?
What is the Interaction Hypothesis?
What is Teaching for Transfer?
What hypothesis ponders over the complexity of language, and that it is mostly acquired rather than learned?
What is the Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis?
What approach emphasizes authentic and meaningful communication and learning as creative instruction, and is compatible with the sociocultural perspective?
What is Communicative Language Teaching?
What hypothesis argues that, when students are in conversations, they are likely to see their limits of their second language ability, and consciously pay more attention to what they are saying in order to better get their meaning across?
What is the Comprehensible Output Hypothesis?
Zone of Proximal Development is defined by what question?
What needs to be done to take the learner where he or she needs to be?
What hypothesis argues, that we learning by understanding messages, not by consciously learning about language, not by memorizing grammar rules and vocabulary?
What is the Input (Comprehension) Hypothesis?
What requires teachers to take risks by exploring new knowledge and opting up to new ways of seeing the world?
What is Critical Pedagogy?
What has two subprocesses of accommodation and restructuring?
What is the Input Processing Model?