How People Learn
Acquiring Language
Krashen's Monitor Model
Schumann's Acculturation Model
Types of Programs
100
The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance.
What is Zone of Proximal Development
100
What a speaker can do under the best conditions and to their best ability
What is competence
100
We acquire a new language subconsciously as we receive messages we understand
What is acquisition hypothesis
100
Social distance is greatest when one group dominates the other
What is social dominance
100
English Language Learners are taught with mainstream students and given no special services
What is English Immersion
200
Ideas that we develop fairly directly from everyday experience.
What is spontaneous concepts
200
The verbal and nonverbal communication strategies that may be called into action to compensate for breakdowns in communication
What is strategic competence
200
The "editor", checking what we produce
What is monitor hypothesis
200
Social distance is increased when the learner group is self-sufficient and doesn't interact with the members of the target culture in daily activities
What is enclosure
200
English Language Learners are given ESL support, and then integrated into all English instruction
What is ESL Pullout
300
Abstract ideas that societies use to organize and categorize experiences
What is scientific concepts
300
Knowing what to say to whom, when, and in what circumstances
What is communicative competence
300
Conscious process in which we focus on various aspects of the language itself
What is learning hypothesis
300
Social distance is increased when the two groups are very different culturally
What is cultural congruence
300
English Language Learners and native speakers of English learn language through content in both English and the first language of the English learners
What is Bilingual Dual-Language Education
400
Acquiring new concepts through learning by carrying out activities in particular situations
What is cognitive apprenticeship
400
Knowledge of a language that allows us to get and give information about the world
What is grammatical competence
400
People acquire language when they receive oral or written messages they understand
What is input hypothesis
400
Social distance is increased when the learner group has a negative attitude toward members of the target-language culture
What is attitude
400
English Language Learners receive a portion of their content instruction in their primary language for 2-3 years, then are integrated into all English instruction
What is Early Exit of Transitional
500
Direct instruction, modeling, scaffolding
What is three types of mediation
500
Three functions of language
What is referential, expressive, and inegrative
500
Anxiety or boredom are examples that blocks input
What is affective filter hypothesis
500
Social distance is reduced when the learner group is less united
What is cohesiveness
500
English Language Learners receive content instruction in both L1 and L2 for 4-6 years
What is Late Exit or Maintenance