What is Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages?
100
This person is often considered the world authority in OBE.
Who is Spady?
100
In response to the publication of A Nation at Risk (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983), this type of education began.
How did the standards-based education begin?
100
This age group is the common age of learners who learn with Competency-based Curriculum who have an immediate need to use English in their daily lives.
Who are adults?
100
OBE
What is Outcome-based Education?
200
ELT
What is English Language Teaching?
200
For OBE practitioners, it is a culminating demonstration of learning.
What is outcome?
200
Starting in 1991, TESOL International Association responded to these six goals for education by investigating standards for ESL learners.
What is Goals 2000?
200
Competency-based Language Teaching (CBLT) programs were developed to teach this category of people.
Who are recent immigrants and refugees?
200
SWBAT
What is students will be able to? (The common beginning of most standards.)
300
CEFR
What is the Common European Framework of Reference (for language)?
300
The country where the most-wide reform for this approach was attempted.
What is South Africa?
300
What students should know and be able to do as a result of instruction.
What does TESOL define 'standard'?
300
This competency-based model grew out of California’s concern in the 1970s with the variety of instructional models used in adult education that had no overarching rationale.
What is CASAS (Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System)?
300
CBLT
What is Competency-based Language Teaching?
400
AMEP
What is the Adult Migrant English Program?
400
It is the feeling that Spady expressed in the development and implementation of OBE where the most-wide reform for this approach was attempted.
What is disappointment?
400
Overarching goals or standards, descriptors that provide "can do" statements, and assessment criteria.
Which are some implementation options for standards' based program?
400
These are the types of skills that Competency-based learners learn.
What are “life skills” or “survival skills”?
400
CASAS
What is Comprehensive Adults Student Assessment System?
500
LINC
What is Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada?
500
It promotes personal values and beliefs, rather than academic excellence.
Why is OBE heavily criticized?
500
To facilitate communication and interaction among Europeans of different mother tongues in order to promote European mobility, mutual understanding and co-operation, and overcome prejudice and discrimination.
What is the CEFR's goal?
500
The following is an area in which Competency-based Language Teaching (CBLT) has been used extensively. Grognet described the process for planning, implementing and evaluating these types of programs.