The theory stating that there is a critical period in a person’s life where biologically they can acquire language more easily and after this period acquiring language becomes more difficult.
What is the Critical Period Hypothesis?
100
This is what a student lacks when he/she is uncomfortable with unclear directions
What is tolerance for ambiguity?
100
The needs and ambitions of the group are prioritized above the wishes of the individual.
What is collective society?
100
Based on a prior assumption and are often about people of specific cultures or races.
What is cultural stereotypes?
200
The distance between a learner's existing development state and their potential development.
The difference between what a learner can do without help and what he/she cannot do.
What is Zone of Proximal Development? (Vygotsky's ZPD)
200
In SLA most older learners do not reach an authentic, native-like-level.
*Relates to the Critical Period Theory*
What is an Accent?
200
A learning-centered approach that refers to the relationship between learning styles and teaching strategies
What is Strategy-based instruction
200
Learners develop and retain a linguistic system or inter-language.
What is fossilization?
200
Memorizing multiplication facts vs. engaging with the content
What is Rote Vs. Meaningful
300
A language teaching method in which the central focus is on grammatical rules, paradigms, and vocabulary-memorization, as the basis for translating from one language to another.
What is The Grammar-Translation Method (GTM)?
300
The assigning of specified neurological functions to the left hemisphere of the brain, and certain other functions to the right hemisphere.
What is Lateralization?
300
The teacher praises students for their efforts in trying out language without correcting errors.
What is encourage risk-taking?
300
Use of authentic language and asking students to do meaningful tasks using target language
What is task-based instruction?
300
The process of reaching a logically certain conclusion though reasoning from one or more statements.
What is What is deductive reasoning?
400
A hypothetical brain mechanism that N. Chomsky postulated to explain how humans acquire language.
What is the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
400
The theory developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University, which separates intelligence into different modalities.
What is the theory of Multiple Intelligences?
(Gardner's concept of intelligence)
400
This method focuses on teaching a foreign language while implementing themes rather than isolating grammar.
What is content-based instruction?
400
A displayed sign that the teacher understood what a learner is trying to communicate.
What is cognitive feedback?
400
The ability to listen and understand the meaning through reading/listening vs. the ability to produce language through speaking/writing.
What is comprehension vs. production?
500
All humans follow a standard/natural sequence of learning when acquiring language. These language skills are steps in the process of language acquisition. These skills are connected and build upon one another as they are the natural process of development.
What is Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing (L-S-R-W)
500
A method or style of teaching foreign languages, which relies on repetition and drilling (in the use of grammar). Language training is done through a system of reinforcement.
*Also known as the Army Method*
What is the Audio-Lingual Method (ALM)?
500
This pertains to feeling, attitude, motivation, values, identification, and apperception of others.
What is Bloom's definition of "Affective domain"
500
Language shapes/ guides how and what we think and develops the way people perceive the world
What is Whorfian hypothesis?
500
The knowledge of sociocultural rules that are involved with language and discourse.