Key Terms 1
The three domains of second language acquisition.
What is linguistic, cognitive, and affective?
The influence that peers which include fellow students and teachers have on the learner and their experience.
What is peer pressure?
When someone feels drained after socializing with large groups of people.
What is introversion?
It's the way of life of a group of people, including their traditions and beliefs.
What is culture?
When a teacher decides what to do for class draws on all of the different ways of teaching to fit best for the class, subject, day, mood of the day, etc.
What is enlightened eclecticism?
A type of instruction which prepares students to acquire the languages while using the context of any subject matter so that students learn the language by using it within the specific context.
What is content based instruction?
When a bilingual individual will frequently switch languages in a conversational setting.
What is code switching?
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an event or something with an uncertain outcome. This feeling can make tests feel like climbing Mount Everest.
What is anxiety?
This is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.
What is culture stereotype?
Strategic options relating to input, processing, storage, and retrieval, or taking in messages from others, as opposed to communication strategies.
What are learning strategies?
The sequence of first language development.
What is L-S-R-W?
The idea that children will learn their first language acquisition through grammatical structures that are in a predetermined, ‘natural’ order, and that some are acquired earlier than others.
What is the natural approach?
People who like being social around others.
What is extroversion?
Type of feedback specifically targeting mistakes
What is error correction?
The confidence and value you place in yourself.
What is self esteem?
The study of the ways in which context contributes to meaning.
What is pragmatics?
When a student is presented the rules/principles. Then, the student applies the rules to examples vs when a student moves from the whole (language in context) to the rules/principles.
What is deductive reasoning vs inductive reasoning?
The act of doing something that might be dangerous or unsuccessful, especially when learning a new language.
What is risk taking?
helps find mistakes, understand why they happen, and fix them so you don't make them again.
What is error analysis?
When someone pronounces words based where they're from.
What is accent?
The concept of the space between what a learner can do unsupported and what the learner cannot do unsupported.
What is Vygotsky’s idea of Zone of Proximal Development?
The errors a learner makes in the stage of learning their second language vs the errors a learner makes when internally thinking of their second language without interference from their first language.
What is inter-language errors vs intra-language error?
It's about being patient and understanding when someone has trouble speaking.
What is empathy?
When a language learner keeps making the same mistake, even after they know the correct way.
What is fossilization?
The ability to understand and express oneself in a given language.
What is discourse competence?