Learning a Language
This is a process that all humans do similarly when learning.
What is a learning process?
This term describes schools and institutions that teach literacy in TWO languages.
What is Dual Immersion?
This two word answer explains how someone may behave because they feel judged by a group or community of people.
What is peer pressure?
This terms describes the ability to switch between two languages. Sometimes mid-conversation
What is Code-Switching?
Words such as “Dude, bro, groovy, cool” for Californians, and “Purrr, slay, iconic, PERIOD!!” for Gen Z, describe which Linguistic Feature of language?
What is Lexicon?
When speaking a new language a person may pronounce words in a way that aligns more with their primary language.
What is an accent?
This method of instruction is described to the best option. It allows students to practice language in real life situations.
What is Content-Based Instruction?
This term includes 4 possible stages one may face when learning a new language or culture.
Honeymoon, Horror, Humor, Home
What is Acculturation?
This term refers to making a mistake in the first language because of the second language, or vice versa.
What is L1/L2 Interference?
This two part answer describes:
Choices made and effort expended in anticipation of rewards
Choices made and effort expended with NO expectation of rewards
What is Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation?
The willingness to gamble or to try despite the possibility of being wrong.
What is Risk-taking?
This term means to, “distinguish a mistake from an error”. It’s knowing the student’s mistake, and helping them to fix it.
What is Error Analysis?
Describes the mistaken idea or belief that many people have about a group. False assumptions made based on the exterior of an individual or group.
What are Cultural Stereotypes?
Hopefully this doesn’t occur, but this term describes the process in which incorrect language becomes a habit and cannot be easily corrected.
What is Fossilization?
This is the idea that “we learn 10% of information we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see, and 90% of what we teach someone else”
What is Glasser's View of Learning?
The Identity a person develops in reference to the language they speak.
What is Language Ego?
This 3 part answer describes: the concepts that will determine your teaching, the delivery of the information, and the tricks you use outside of class.
What are Approaches, Methods, and Techniques?
This term refers to how well someone can handle a new situation, especially when learning new concepts.
What is tolerance of ambiguity?
An individual who learns two languages in the same environment, so that they acquire one notion with two expressions.
“One picture in the brain, but two ways to say it ”
What is a compound bilingual?
This concept poses two classroom styles:
The instructor is the deliverer of all the information, while students just sit and listen.
The class takes control, and they learn from one another
(with group projects or student led discussions)
What is Teacher-Centered Vs. Student-Centered Classrooms?
This theory describes how learning a language is biologically easier for children. The older you are, the more difficult it is to learn a language.
What is Critical Period Hypothesis?
This list, that we should ALL follow and remember, includes topics such as:
Use right brain processes, engage in cooperative learning, and encouraging risks!
What are Brown’s Ten Commandments for Good Language Teaching?
This philosophical idea explains that reality is determined by how we think, which is influence by language.
“Language influences how we perceive the world”.
What is the Whorfian Hypothesis?
This term contains four parts: Grammatical, Discourse, Sociolinguistic, and Strategic Competence. Or, “The ability to communicate successfully”
What is Communicative competence?
This person believed Language skills are required for social communication (BICS), and the understanding of specialized language is necessary for success in classrooms (CALP)
Who is Jim Cummins?