Definitions
Field of study of the subconscious processes of memorization of the language of the country you live in
Learners do not speak, can understand a bit (receptive 500 words)
What is preproduction/the silent period?
linguistic system shaped by L2 learner
What is interlanguage?
Traditional ways of teaching foreign languages until end of 19th century
What is the Grammar-Translation method?
The ultimate goal of this approach is communication
What is the communicative approach?
Field of study of the conscious processes of memorization of the language of foreign country
What is the Foreign Language Pedagogy?
learners speak in chunks (1000 words).
What is the early production stage?
L2 interlanguage errors coming from L1
What is language transfer?
L1 is not used at all and classes are taught exclusively in the L2 by native-speakers with a focus on the oral skills
What is the Direct Method?
approach that encourages to use the language to achieve a concrete task based on real-life situation
What is the action-oriented/task-based approach?
order in which learners communicate in a language
What are stages of acquisition?
Learners communicate simply with mistakes (3000 words)
What is the emergence stage?
language is acquired through guided interaction and negotiation of meaning
What is the Interactionist Hypothesis?
Classes were taught in a lab and students had to listen to a dialogue and then repeat sentences and do oral drills
What is the audio-lingual method?
Teacher introduces vocabulary and students have to react with physical actions
What is the Total Physical Response method?
order in which learners acquire grammatical features
What is the sequence of acquisition?
Learners use more complicated structures (6000 words)
What is intermediate fluency?
only way to acquire a language is through exposure to comprehensible input
What is Krashen's Input Hypothesis?
the teacher speaks as little as possible (hence silent) so that the learning is truly learner-centered and peer-correction is encouraged.
What is the silent way method?
Assumes that language can be learned through learning the content of a subject matter
What is content-based instruction?
They can be biological (age, neuronal) , psychological (motivation, emotions), linguistic (mother tongue), social (learning environment)
What are factors of acquisition?
Learners have native-like level
What is advanced level?
language is acquired when interlocutor has a positive reaction to speaker’s production
What is Swain's output hypothesis?
method that aims to reduce psychological barriers of L2 mlearning though the arts
What is the Suggestopedia Method?
He believes that foreign language teachers should no longer follow a method but use eclectic methods and approaches based on their belief system