Claims that people learn when instruction is targeted to their zones of proximal development.
Who is Vygotsky?
100
Krashen claims we acquire language more readily through acquisition rather than what way?
What is "Learning"?
100
For learning to take place, instruction must occur where in a student
What is their Zone of Proximal Development?
100
He criticizes this man's theories.
Who is Skinner?
100
When people from one cultural group are transplanted into a new setting.
What is acculturation?
200
He distinguishes between language competence and language performance
Who is Chomsky
200
Making the content more understandable and relevant to our ELLs
What is comprehensible input?
200
In Vygotsky's theory, ideas we develop fairly directly from everyday experience is called...
What are spontaneous concepts?
200
Chomsky claims we are all born with this.
What is Universal Grammar? An innate knowledge of grammar that serves as the basis for all language acquisition
200
They include early-exit transitional programs, late-exit maintenance programs and bilingual dual-language enrichment programs
What are models of bilingual education?
300
His acculturation model claims that acquiring a second language depends on the social and psychological distance between the learner group and the target language group.
Who is Schumann?
300
Krashen claims that language is acquired in the same order no matter what their first language may be. This hypothesis is called...
What is the Natural Order Hypothesis?
300
In Vygotsky's theory, abstract ideas that societies use to organize and categorize experiences are called...
What scientific concepts?
300
A hypothetical tool hardwired into the brain that helps children rapidly learn and understand language.
What is a Language Acquisition Device?
300
They include English immersion and ESL pullout or push-in.
What are English-only models for the instruction of ELLs?
400
His theory of SLA is called the Monitor Model.
Who is Krashen?
400
This part of Krashen's theory acts as an editor, checking what we produce. It can operate when we have time, when we focus on grammatical form, and when we know the rules.
What is the Monitor Hypothesis?
400
The role of the teacher according to Vygotsky.
What is mediation?
400
Because Chomsky believes that language learning is a subconscious process that functions without the need for teaching of the rules, he does not believe in this for language learning.
What is explicit grammar teaching?
400
The practice of alternating between two or more languages in a conversation.
What is code switching?
500
She suggests we use the term "emergent bilinguals" rather than "English language learners".
Who is Garcia?
500
This may block language acquisition even when the content is presented in a comprehensible way.
What is the Affective Filter?
500
When an adult or more capable peer asks questions, points out aspects of a problem, or makes suggestions, working in a learner's zone of proximal development.
What is a scaffold?
500
What a speaker can do under the best conditions, it represents a kind of idealized best ability.
What is a speaker's "competence"?
500
According to Schumann, this many factors influence social distance.