Krashen's Hypotheses
ELL Programs (Ch 6)
Misc.
100
According to this theory, the optimal way a language is learned is through natural communication.
What is The Acquisition-Learning hypothesis
100
Is an English Immersion program Subtractive or Additive in its language result?
What is Subtractive. (pg. 169)
100
Who regards language as a form of human action?
What is Van Lier & Walqui
200
This hypothesis ‘monitors’ the ELL to inspect and correct errors, but can sometimes act as a barrier as it forces the learner to slow down and focus more on accuracy instead of fluency.
What is The Monitor hypothesis
200
Do students in the Enriched Immersion program perform better, about the same, or worse than peers taught all in English?
What is About the same (pg. 169)
200
Most common language spoken by ELLs?
What is Spanish, spoken by 71 percent of ELL students
300
According to this hypothesis, teachers should be aware that certain structures of a language are easier to acquire than others should be taught in an order that is conducive to learning.
What is The Natural Order hypothesis
300
What is the Most wide;y Implemented of all bilingual models?
What is the Early-Exit or Transitional Model (pg. 165)
300
What is the second most common language spoken by ELLs?
What is Chinese, spoken by 4 percent of ELLs.
400
This hypothesis says that language acquisition occurs when learners receive messages that they can understand, but it should be one step beyond the learner’s current ability.
What is The Input hypothesis
400
What do both Immersion and ESL Programs have in common?
What is Instruction in English (pg. 165)
400
Myth or Fact? Today’s immigrants refuse to learn English?
What is Myth, one-half of those older than 5 speak English “very well” according to research
500
In any aspect of education it is always important to create a safe, welcoming environment in which students can learn. In order to take in and produce language, learners need to feel that they are able to make mistakes and take risks. AND This hypothesis basically states that the more we read in a SL the greater our vocabulary will be.
What is The Affective Filter hypothesis AND The Reading Hypothesis
500
Name three of the six characteristics of effective EL Programs?
What is 1) Long Term 2) Instruction through first language 3) instruction though second language 4) Sociocultural Support 5) Interactive, Cognitively Challenging Discovery Learning 6) Integration with the Mainstream (pg. 159)
500
What is the name given to the zone between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help?
What is Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development
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