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It’s Just English Ya’ Know
We can train you to do this
It's all in your head
What makes a difference?
School work
100
What you say and how you say it gives meaning to the communicative context.
What is pragmatics?
100
Just repeat after me and you will learn by imitation in this method.
What is the audio-lingual method?
100
The creator of Innatist theory with a focus on syntax
What is Chomsky?
100
Compare the rules of 2 languages and you are doing this.
What is contrastive analysis?
100
Now we use the shorter term academic language.
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)?
200
Changing this is like changing /c/ to /b/ with /at/ and you have a new animal
What is a phoneme?
200
Your mind is a blank slate and ready to learn.
What is tabula rasa?
200
Babies are born with this device in their brains for linguistic analysis.
What is the Language Acquisition Device? (LAD)
200
We don't learn a language; we _____ it through meaningful interactions, according to Krashen.
What is acquire?
200
Non-native speakers try to exert control over conversation to make it comprehensible for themselves.
What is negotiating meaning?
300
The difference between one friend and many friends is this.
What is a morpheme?
300
If you can't say this correctly, then no recess today. My reaction and actions will influence your learning.
What is reinforcement?
300
A fancy way of saying that children learn language through trial and error. They test how they think language works.
What is hypothesis testing?
300
Language needs to be _____________, i+1, for the person to respond back.
What is comprehensible?
300
The time it takes to reach a basic level of academic language proficiency (Collier)
What is 5 to 7 years?
400
Everyone have fun at the beach-oops something is wrong here.
What is a syntax error?
400
A famous American behaviorist who applied his theory to language learning.
What is Skinner?
400
Children don't only memorize and repeat, they _____ sentences with rules.
What is create?
400
You need this to filter your anxiety and boost self confidence while acquiring language.
What is the affective filter?
400
Grammatical errors that persist. example: The vacuum, she is broken."
What are fossilized errors?
500
When you put phonology, morphology and syntax all together to form meaning, you have....
What is semantics?
500
Behaviorists are rooted in this area of research.
What is psychology?
500
Chomsky is a famous ____ for his work on transformational grammar.
What is a linguist?
500
Grammatical forms may not develop without this from the parent, caregiver, or teacher (Swain).
What is direct instruction?
500
Best way to deal with grammatical errors in student writing.
What is in "the context of their writing"?