A phrase used to describe learning your native tongue.
What is first language acquisition?
100
Krashen's theory that suggests that emotions can get in the way of a student's comprehension
What is the Affective Filter Hypothesis?
100
He believes the greater the social distance between two cultures, the greater the difficulty the learner will have in learning the second language.
Who is Schumann?
100
A term used to describe writing/speaking a language - the opposite of input.
What is output?
100
The rules of proper language usage.
What is grammar?
200
Baby-talk, the precursor to formal speech.
What is babbling?
200
Krashen's theory that distinguishes between the natural way of discovering how to use a language and the conscious process of focusing on various aspects of the language itself
What is the Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis?
200
A type of social distance characterized by the learner group having a negative attitude toward members of the target-language group.
What is attitude?
200
A word used to describe a language environment where only the target language is spoken.
What is immersion?
200
The preferred approach to grammar teaching, according to Derewianka, where grammar is taught cyclically through practice.
What is Language as Functional Resource?
300
This is the second stage of first language development, when children's vocabulary begins to grow very rapidly.
What is eighteen months?
300
Krashen's hypothesis that some aspects of a language are consistently picked up earlier than others.
What is the Natural Order Hypothesis?
300
A type of social distance characterized by one language group's dominance over another.
What is social dominance?
300
A theory of second language acquisition developed by Long, claiming that successful learning happens in part through making adjustments in conversation.
What is the interaction hypothesis?
300
The least preferred approach to grammar teaching, according to Derewianka, where grammar rules are taught explicitly and in a vacuum.
What is Language as Structure?
400
A leading American linguist who argues that children are innately predisposed to acquiring the basic rules of language without formal instruction.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
400
Krashen's hypothesis that describes the editor in our heads that operates on a rules-based level while we use language.
What is The Monitor Hypothesis?
400
The umbrella factor including motivation, attitude, and culture shock that - according to Schumann - may promote or inhibit language acquisition when social distance is not a factor.
What is psychological distance?
400
A teaching method that can be problematic if it is the only method of measuring comprehension.
What is forcing output?
400
The social justice concept of there being a primary language of power that students need to know in order to have access to certain societal advantages.
What is Language as Gatekeeper?
500
The study of language.
What is linguistics?
500
Krashen's hypothesis that asserts that we only acquire language through input - and not output.
What is The Input Hypothesis?
500
A more productive paradigm for viewing language acquisition than "assimilation".
What is acculturation?
500
The theorist who believes that the ability to use language creatively is the end result of a language acquisition process demonstrating proficiency.
Who is Van Lier?
500
The teacher practice of correcting incorrect grammar structures that students produce?