The Acquisition of Language
The study of sounds through pronunciation, intonation and stress
What is Phonology ?
Second Language Acquisition
What is SLA?
Phrases to learn in order to speak / understand what the teacher says in the Classroom
Survival Vocabulary
Yearly
What is an adverb and an adjetive ?
A set of rules aquired by an unconscious learning process
What is internalized System?
Between 7 - 10 years
How long it takes to aquire a second language ?
Where you hang your wet clothes
What is Clotheshorse?
Type of informal language that have a meaning different from the meaning of the words in the expression
What is an Idiom
Mother Tongue and Language Acquistiton
L1 and L2
E L L
What is English Language Learner
The student takes in the new language, but does not speak it
What is Silent Period?
Is a visual display that demonstrates relationships between facts, concepts or ideas
What is a Graphic Orgaizer ?
One word means many things
What is Overgeneralization ?
The learner is completely surrounded by the target language
What is Total Immersion
The teacher models language and the learners repeat it together
What is Choral Repetion ?
The students should be developing a more advanced syntax, pagmatics, pronunciation that do not affect meaning but do contribute to oral fluency
What is Intermedite Fluency
Utterances tend to be dominated by content words.
What is Telegraphic Speech
It would typically be someone who's born into a bilingual home and use both languages simultaneously for any situation
Bilingual Brain
The student respond in a way with out thinking about the answer
What is Drill ?
A method where teachers offer a particular kind of support to students as they learn and develop a new concept or skill.
What is Scaffolding ?