The sequence of first language development in which the first step is listening. Speaking is the second step. The third step is reading in the language. The final step is writing in the language.
L-S-R-W
the practice of alternating between two or more languages in conversation.
code switching
the identity one develops as they try to learn a new language.
Language ego
the ideas, customs, skills, arts, and tools that characterize a given group of people in a given period of time. “What is accepted and familiar.”
Culture
What does TPR stand for?
Total Physical Response
The study of the structure of sentences
Syntax
The side of your brain that is engaged when you are being creative
Right side
A person who gains energy from being around other people.
An Extrovert
when someone has an overgeneralized, oversimplified view or opinion on another person based on who they are, where they're from, or the language they speak without getting to know the individual.
Cultural stereotype
a distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class.
accent
The difference between what a learner can do without help, and what they can't do.
(ZPD)
Vygotsky’s idea of Zone of Proximal Development
Babies often say “I go-ed” before saying “I went”. This is an example of
Over-generalization
This is what a student lacks when he/she is uncomfortable with unclear directions
tolerance of ambiguity
Use of authentic language and asking students to do meaningful tasks using a target language.
Task-Based Instruction
The assigning of specified neurological functions to the left hemisphere of the brain, and certain other functions to the right hemisphere.
Lateralization
utterances or sentences as they are actually spoken or written vs. rules that give meaning to written and spoken messages
Surface structure v.s deep structure
to learn meaningfully, students must relate new knowledge to what they already know.
Ausubel's Meaningful Learning Theory
motivation that is derived by goals for personal reasons. These are motivations from within a person.
intrinsic (integrative) motivation
Learners develop and retain a linguistic system or inter-language.
Fossilization
a feeling that makes one self-conscious and unable to act in a natural way.
Inhibition
What are the 3 domains?
linguistic, cognitive and affective
People who learned two languages in separate contexts
coordinate bilingual
A personality test to measure preferences and perceptions of the world.
Myer's Briggs Type Indicator
The hypothesis that language greatly influences thought.
Whorfian hypothesis
What is an example of BICS?
talking on the phone
having a face to face conversation
oral presentation