SLA Theory
'Digital Nation' Documentary
Wild Card
Chomsky & Hodge Podge
All-things-Bilingual
100
The scholarly field of inquiry that investigates the human capacity to learn languages other than the first, during late childhood, adolescence or adulthood, and once the first language or languages have been acquired.
What is second language acquisition (SLA)?
100
At the beginning of the documentary, the producers/narrators of the film interview several students at this university; where laptops are commonly found in classrooms and students appear to be incessantly using technology in both their academic and social lives.
What is M.I.T.?
100
The term/field/area that believes that all human cognition can be defined as or reduced down to a series of stimuli and responses.
What is Behaviorism?
100
One of Chomsky's most famous ideas about language acquisition had to do with this term which can be defined as the 'software' that all humans possess that allow them to acquire language.
What is Universal Grammar (UG)?
100
This type of immersion program involves students who all share the same L1 and where the majority of content learning (i.e.,math, science, history) happens in the L2.
What is one-way language immersion?
200
The special/hybrid variety of language that learners first generate when acquiring a second language.
What is interlanguage?
200
A term used in the film to describe students who have essentially grown up using or being immersed in a world of technology. In other words, they have never known a world without technology.
What is a digital native?
200
This type of research relies primarily on lots of participants, complex statistical analyses, and the ability to generalize one's results to other contexts.
What is quantitative research?
200
The following is an example of what: ;-)
What is an emoticon?
200
This is a term for a kind of bilingual program where initially, content is taught to learners using both languages. However, over time, one of the languages is phased out completely (i.e., the L2 will essentially replace the L1).
What is a subtractive bilingual program?
300
This researcher is famous for a second language acquisition theory comprised of 5 hypotheses.
Who is (Stephen) Krashen?
300
Based on the conclusion of the researchers interviewed in the film, multitasking is considered to be _____?______ to students.
What is harmful?
300
According to Blake (2008), the Foreign Service Institute calculates that learners (whose L1 is English) who are learning a Romance language need, at minimum, ___?___ # of hours of instruction to reach a high level of fluency.
What is 700 hours?
300
This term is used to describe the ideal time frame when children are most successful acquiring language (usually 2 yrs. to puberty).
What is critical period?
300
This type of bilingual program is where students of different native languages (i.e., two L1s are represented) learn content (e.g., math, science, history, etc.) via both languages during a typical day in school. Students in this type of program may be taught by 1 bilingual teacher or by 2 different teachers during the day (i.e., one who speaks one language and another who speaks the other language).
What is a two-way language immersion program?
400
This famous hypothesis relates to the idea that when anxious or nervous, learners will not be able to process input as effectively vs. when they are relaxed an comfortable in a language learning environment.
What is the Affective Filter Hypothesis?
400
On average, kids/adolescents in the United States spend this many hours using digital media per week.
What is 50 hours?
400
This kind of exam/assessment matches a learner's current level of knowledge with an appropriately challenging course.
What is placement exam?
400
___?___ is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute, and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. It also involves a continuum of learning to enable an individual to achieve his or her goals, to develop his or her knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in society as a whole.
What is literacy?
400
This is another term for one’s first/native language.
What is ‘mother tongue’?
500
This famous hypothesis is credited to Merrill Swain, whose work/research was carried out in French Immersion programs in Canada.
What is the Output Hypothesis?
500
This is a virtual world in which you choose/create your own avatar and interact with people as if you were working alongside them in the real world; IBM recently adopted this tool/program to save money for travel to real-life meetings.
What is Second Life?
500
In Blake's (2008) article about computer assisted language learning, he states that language teachers (and one could say teachers in general) should not be worried about technology replacing them/taking their jobs. Rather, they should be worried about what?
What is "~other teachers who know about/how to use technology replacing those who don't."
500
應用語言學 is an example of what kind of writing:
What is logographic writing?
500
Children’s knowledge and skills transfer across languages from the mother tongue used in the home to the school/majority language; the opposite is also true—the concepts, language, and literacy skills that children are learning in the majority language at school can transfer to the home language. The effects of using the two languages are therefore considered to be _____?_____.
What is ‘interdependent’?
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