Of BICS and CALP, this is the one a student is more likely to use in a social interaction.
What is BICS?
100
When we teach inferring, we help our ELLs “listen between” these.
What are “the lines”?
100
The receptive process visual process of combining information from a text and the student’s own background knowledge to build meaning.
What is reading?
100
This “listen carefully and repeat” approach to pronunciation, which challenges learners to mimic and memorize, is grounded in Skinner’s beliefs and other theories related to this.
What is behaviorism?
100
This is the unit of language that can stand on its own and have meaning, such as a word, a prefix, or a suffix.
What is a morpheme?
200
This type of processing encourages learners to start from their background knowledge, such as previous learning or life experiences, to understand the components and the details of language.
What is top-down processing?
200
A fill-in-the-blank exercise is also known as this.
What is a cloze?
200
This productive skill is both a process and a product, both a physical and a mental act, to both impress and express.
What is writing?
200
These are the little signals that people give each other to cue each other about whose turn it is to talk, such as okay, so, well then, and now.
What are discourse markers?
200
This technique for building vocabulary begins with a key concept in the middle, with lines drawn to other words related to the main concept, until an interconnected concept map is created.
What is a word web?
300
Curriculum has three main subcomponents: syllabus design in the beginning, evaluation at the end, and this middle step, the focus of our course.
What is methodology?
300
In this technique, students write for a specified period of time without regard for grammar, spelling or punctuation.
What is freewriting?
300
This is the language system that involves speakers and listeners and extended stretches of language—in other words, conversation.
What is discourse?
300
This type of sequence creates a bad vibe in conversation because the two pair-parts just don’t fit!
What is a dispreferred sequence?
300
Groups of related words, such as charm, charmed, charming, charms.
What are word families?
400
This linguistic approach to teaching that emerged during the 1970s and emphasized language as a tool for expressing meaning is known for short as CLT.
What is Communication Language Teaching?
400
This four-letter word meaning “main idea” is really hard to listen for!
What is the "gist"?
400
This language system involves the rules of the language.
What is grammar?
400
Two bits of language that fit together, such as “OK? Yes!”
What are adjacency pairs?
400
While declarative knowledge is about knowing language rules, this type of knowledge is about being able to use the knowledge for communication.
What is procedural knowledge?
500
In ESL, English is L2, otherwise known as this.
What is the target language?
500
IRF is the three-step process involved in every language classroom, in which the teacher initiates the sequences, the student responds, and the teacher does this by giving feedback.
What is follow-up?
500
This language system involves speech sounds and patterns used by native speakers and accepted by a speech community.
What is pronunciation?
500
These types of phonemes can change meaning through stress, rhythm and intonation.
What are suprasegmental phonemes?
500
In this technique, the teacher tries to draw the student’s attention to the grammar rule that is going to be taught by highlighting, underlining, or coloring.