Language Proficiency and Assessment
The leveling framework developed by the Council of Europe which details the skills associated with 6 levels of language proficiency.
What is the CEFR (Common European Framework for Languages)?
The supports provided to students to ensure that they are working in their ZPD.
What is scaffolding?
This approach took hold in the 1990s and put students' ability to communicate above all else.
What is the communicative approach?
These are the three functions of speaking.
What are interaction, transaction, and performance?
The use of different languages together.
What is translanguaging?
Three common English language tests.
What are [TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, Cambridge]?
Starting from the objective and then planning the activities to reach that objective.
This approach is the traditional mode of language teaching often used for ancient languages, but sometimes also used for modern languages.
What is the grammar translation method?
These are four of the six functions of listening.
What are listening for details, listening selectively, listening for global understanding, listening for main ideas, listening to infer, and/or listening to make predictions?
The mythical creature that resembles the belief in a singular standard English.
What is a unicorn?
One measures student understanding throughout the learning process and the other measures student understanding at the end.
What are formative and summative assessments?
Having students draw on what they already know about a topic before engaging with it.
What is schema activation?
This approach teaches a subject area alongside the L2.
What is CLIL?
What is CBI?
The use of two or more languages in or around writing.
What is biliteracy?
The variety of English that is spoken internationally, among L2 English speakers.
What is ELF? (English as a Lingua Franca)
The four aspects of communicative competence.
What are grammatical, strategic, discourse, and pragmatic competence?
What are active verbs, conditions, and measurement?
This approach to language teaching focuses on students as emergent bilinguals rather than as language learners, developing two languages at once.
What is dual-language education?
What is translanguaging pedagogy?
What is an additive approach?
These are the six discourses of writing.
What are skills, creativity, process, genre, social practices, and sociopolitical discourses?
A teaching method that focuses on the embodiment of new vocabulary.
What is Total Physical Response (TPR)?
These are three principles of language assessment.
What are [practicality, reliability, validity, authenticity, washback]?
The three interrelated aspects of the "cycle" of teaching and learning.
What are instruction, learning, and assessment?
One assesses a student's ability to manipulate language that has been modeled by the teacher, while the other encourages the use of target language through meaning-focused activities.
What is the difference between tasks and exercises?
Examples of this are bet and bat, man and men, or sheep and ship.
What are minimal pairs?
The three faces of language.
What are meaning, expression, and context?