Theories/Approaches
Supports that children are born with a specific innate ability to acquire a language, endowed to learn language biologically.
Innatist
refers to forming and hearing sounds in spoken language, is seen as the main purpose in teaching pronunciation.
Intelligibility
the competence type involving the use of cohesive devices in connecting the parts of the texts in various genres.
Discourse Competence
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Behaviorist Theory.
refers to quickly searching for a piece of information in a text such as a name, date or a place.
Scanning
a grammar type supporting the idea that even if languages are superficially diverse, they share fundamental similarities.
Universal Grammar
Acquisition occurs through associating elements or ideas with one another via experiences.
Connectionist Theory
using a variety of clues to understand the literal meaning of words in a text.
Inferencing
a grammar type that tries to lay out the rules of language use and make judgements about dialects and accents in the society.
Prescriptive Grammar
includes demonstrating the meaning through the use of realia and pictures. Learners learn inductively without the use of mother tongue.
The Direct Method
the stage when the child produces syllable-type sounds like 'ba', 'da', 'mu'.
Babbling
a property of language stating that language enables people to talk about other places and times.
Displacement
Techniques are; reflective listening, small group tasks, recording students' conversation, transcription.
Community Language Learning
involves going over the same listening material multiple times to develop vocabulary and grammar knowledge.
Intensive Listening
when we say language is ..., we mean there is no logical connection between words and their meanings.
Arbitrariness