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Surprise Questions
100
The sequence of first language development.
What is L-S-R-W?
100
Abbreviation for the Critical Period Hypothesis.
What is CPH?
100
To be more content than others to entertain and even internalize contradictory propositions.
What is Ambiguity Tolerance?
100
The argument that one's language is not merely a reproducing instrument for voicing ideas but rather is itself the shaper of ideas, the program and guide for the individual's mental activity.
What is Whorfian Hypothesis (Cultural relativism)?
100
Understanding the meaning of the message. "What" is said, not simply "How" it is said.
What is Language Acquisition?
200
Your internal dictionary.
What is Lexicon?
200
Inserting words or phrases of one language into another. Example "Spanglish"
What is Code-Switching?
200
General guidelines that provide a teacher with effective language instruction.
What is Brown's "10 Commandments for Good Language Teaching?"
200
This means Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills
What is BICS?
200
This is the "new" critical age period discussed in the BBC film.
What is in the womb to 5 years old.
300
The distance between a learner's existing developmental state and their potential development.
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
300
Pre-Production - Silent Period Early Production -1 to 2 words Speech Emerges - Telegraphic Speech Intermediate Fluency - full sentences/engages in dialogue
What are the four stages of the Natural Approach?
300
Abbreviation for Content-Based Instruction; use of all resources avalible to teach language skills.
What is CBI
300
Means Cognitive/Academic Language Profeciency.
What is CALP?
300
Three conditions that are in place allowing students to "acquire" a language best.
What is Comprehensible Language, Stress Free Environment, and No Pressure?
400
The abbreviation for the Grammar Translation Method.
What is GTM?
400
Relating new information to already known material in a meaningful way.
What is Ausubel's Meaningful Learning Theory?
400
Tension, nervousness, uneasiness, self-doubt.
What is Anxiety?
400
Body language, facial expressions, eye contact, hand gestures.
What is Non-Verbal Communication (NVC)?
400
The name of a elementary school in Turlock that is a language immersion school.
What is Osborn School?
500
Well informed/taken from many sources. A teachers "bag of tricks."
What is Enlightened Eclecticism?
500
Learning 10% of what we read only, 20% of what we hear only, 30% of what we see only, 50% of what we see and hear, 70% of what is discussed with others, 80% of what we experienced personally, and 90% of what we taught to someone else.
What is Glasser's View of Learning?
500
Introversion vs. Extroversion Sensing vs. Intuition Thinking vs. Feeling Judging vs. Perceiving
What is the Myers-Briggs four contrast styles of functioning?
500
Permanent incorporation of incorrect linguistic forms into L2.
What is Fossilization?
500
Two elements that make younger children better language learners than older students.
What is they are unaware of their mistakes and they are allowed to be silent?