Authors
Vocab
Theorists
Misc
100
This author did a case study on a girl named ____ that examined how many ELL newcomers feel pressured to assimilate to the dominant social culture of their schools, causing them to deny their own language and cultural identities.
-Maria
-Khadar Bashir - Ali
100
What’s the difference between errors and mistakes? (Ellis & Barkhuizen)
Error - gap in L2 knowledge
Mistake - due to difficulty of processing forms not yet fully mastered
100
Who came up with the Critical Period Hypothesis?
Noam Chomsky
100
True or False: the works of Lado & Skinner are on the cutting edge of SLA research.
False: they're behaviorists
200
Who is the author that conducted the case study with French-speaking African ELL students who learned Spanish along with ESL?
Davila
200
What is the difference between declarative and procedural knowledge?
Declarative knowledge - aware we know it like a grammar rule
Procedural knowledge - how to use the rule in practice
200
Who came up with this ecology theory?
Bronfenbrenner
200
Name 3 communication strategies
Literal translation, word coinage, appeal for assistance, approximation, circumlocution, gestures, avoidance
300
Who said this quote?
“The deficit perspective is so ingrained that even well-meaning teachers have few available discourses that could even imagine these students as gifted sociolinguists."
Flores
300
What are display questions? (Zwiers)
Questions that the teacher knows the answer to and expects a right or wrong answer from the student
300
What theorist is responsible for this circular model of language acquisition AND what do we call the middle purple circle?
Vygotsky, Zone of Proximal Development
300
What percentage of people in the US speak a non-English language at home? (Kim Potowski TED Talk)
20%
400
Who said this quote?
“What does it mean to be an English teacher in a global context in which English(es) carry tremendous cultural and social capital and economic power?”
Motha
400
What is the Joseph Conrad phenomenon? (Tarone & Swierzbin)
When older learners almost always pronounce a second language with an accent despite being perfectly intelligible and having a mastery of syntax that is identifiable as foreign to native speakers
400
Which approach combines Krashen’s Input Hypothesis with Swain’s Output Hypothesis? (Gass)
Interaction Approach - Gass & Mackey
400
Why might “native speaker” be a problematic term?
It centers monolingualism and Western language ideologies as the norm
500
Who said this quote?
“A focus on imagined communities in SLA enables us to explore how learner’s affiliation with such communities might affect their learning trajectories.”
Bonny Norton & Carolyn McKinney
500
Give an example of implicit feedback
Confirmation checks - “.... RIGHT?”
Clarification requests - “HUH?”
Comprehension checks - “DID YOU UNDERSTAND”
Recasts
500
What reading included this model that intersects the constructs of Identity, Capital, and Ideology as key components of learner investment in SLA?
Model for Investment : Darvin & Norton
500
Who's the best SLA professor?
Margaret Buchanan