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Morphology, Phonology, Lexicon and Syntax are factors of this.
What are Linguistic Features of Language?
100
This type of classroom focuses on not just the instructor but the student. The instructor interacts with the students and chooses topics that have some meaning in the student’s life.
What is a Student Centered Classroom?
100
This is the subjective feeling of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry associated with the arousal of the autonomic nervous systemn that an L2 learner may feel. Plays a major affective role in SLA. Lowering the affective filter and lowering ______ profoundly elevates the efficacy of any lesson in SLA
What is Anxiety?
100
This is the relatively permanent incorporation of linguistic forms into a person's L2 competence. ______ may be due to a lack of willingness to take risks.
What is Fossilization?
100
This is defined as-Picturing other cultures in an oversimplified manner, lumping cultural differences into exaggerated categories, and then viewing every person in a culture as possessing stereotypical traits.
What is Cultural Stereotypes?
200
This psychological school believes the human brain to be a blank slate that caregivers and society fill with information. It is a belief that every human thought and action is a direct result of his or her environment.
What is Behaviorism?
200
This is when a second language speaker uses words from both languages naturally in conversation.
What is Code Switching?
200
L2 learners have to be able to gamble a bit, to be willing to try out hunches about the language even if they are wrong. They have to be able to __ __. In addition, fossilization may be due to a lack of willingness to __ __.
What is Risk Taking/ Take Risks?
200
BICS is an acronym for this: __ __ __ __. CALPS is an acronym for this: __ __ __ __ __. Give the meaning for one of these acronyms
What is Basic/Interpersonal/Communicative/Skills? or What is Cognitive/Academic/Language/Proficiency/Skills?
200
He said: We learn: 10% of what we read/ 20% of what we hear/ 30% of what we see/ 50% of what we hear and see 70% of what is discussed with others 80% of what we experience personally 90% of what we teach someone else
Who is Glasser?
300
This method requires student to learn a foreign language by memorizing texts and vocabulary. This method counters Vygotsky’s idea in that it attempts to force second language acquisition rather than allow it to be acquired naturally.
What is the Grammar Translation Method?
300
This is the idea that there is a point in a person’s life where language can be most easily acquired. After this point, however, the ability to acquire that language decreases.
What is the Critical Period Hypothesis?
300
This is the process of putting yourself into someone else’s shoes—of reaching beyond the self to understand what another person is feeling. Probably a major factor in the harmonious coexistence of individuals in society—this feeling should be a point of discussion of any SLA class
What is Empathy?
300
___ ___ ___ is an approach that urges teachers, in their lesson and curriculum designs, to focus on many communicative factors. To accomplish a task, a learner needs to have sufficient organizational competence and all the tools of discourse, pragmatics, and nonverbal communicative ability
What is Task Based Instruction?
300
_________is another term for vocabulary. What is a Lexicon?
What is a Lexicon?
400
This is the ability to draw upon different techniques to create a lesson plan that will meet the students needs.
What is enlightened eclecticism?
400
This is the belief that it is most beneficial when what students are learning correlates with what they already know. This provides context for understanding what they are learning rather than just relying on word cues.
What is Ausubel’s Meaningful Learning Theory?
400
Refers to the use of all sources available to teach language skills. It is a great way for students to make connections between the culture and other disciplines. With __ __ __, the teacher integrates academic content with language skills centered on a content topic. Language proficiency is achieved through shifting the focus of the course from learning of the language to the learning of subject matter.
What is Content Based Instruction /(CBI)?
400
There are four stages to the acculturation process(Culture Shock): Name the Four Stages (first stage, second stage, etc. does not count!)
What are Honeymoon-Horror-Humor-Home?
400
This is the area of the brain that is responsible for learning a new language. Small children have a more open one of these than adults which explains why many learn a second language at a faster rate. The more people are exposed to the language they are learning, the more evolved their this becomes.
What is the Language Acquisition Device?
500
This consists of the different factors that are inherent in the sentence that is spoken. For example, in order to address a large audience, the speaker must take into account: cultural differences, semantics, values, body language, and pragmatics.
What is Deep Structure?
500
This is the effect the students native language has on his or her ability to learn the new one.
What is Interference?
500
H.D. Brown lists Ten Commandments for Good Language Teaching: List 3 of these commandments
What is 1.Lower inhibitions 2.Encourage risk taking 3.Build self-confidence 4.Develop intrinsic motivation 5.Process error feedback 6.Engage in cooperative learning 7.Practice intuition 8.Use right-brain processes 9.Promote ambiguity tolerance 10.Set personal goals
500
____ is a dynamic system of rules, explicit and implicit, established by groups in order to ensure their survival, involving attitudes, values, beliefs, norms and behaviors, shared by a group
What is Culture?
500
___ ____ ____ :Intensive language courses that focused on the aural/oral skills used by the Army Characteristics include: Pronunciation and pattern drills Conversation practice
What is Audio-Lingual Method/ (ALM)?