Teaching Approaches
This approach teaches a subject area alongside the L2.
What is CLIL?
What is CBI?
The supports provided to students to ensure that they are working in their ZPD.
What is scaffolding?
The mythical creature that resembles the belief in a singular standard English.
What is the (Standard language) Unicorn?
e.g., Speaking; Writing
What are the productive skills?
The variety of English that is spoken internationally, among L2 English speakers.
What is World English?
What is English as a Lingua Franca?
This approach emerged in the late 1970s and took hold in the 1990s. It put students' ability to communicate above all else.
What is the communicative approach / communicative language teaching?
Starting from the objective and then planning the activities to reach that objective.
What is backward design?
The three faces of language.
What are meaning, expression, and context?
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)?
This term describes the conceptualizations about languages, speakers, and discursive practices, which are pervaded with political and moral interests and highly influenced by culture.
What is language ideology?
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?
Having students draw on what they already know about a topic before engaging with it.
What is schema activation?
E.g.: questioning, complaining, requesting, planning, apologizing, expressing...
What are language functions / communicative functions?
e.g., Listening; Reading
What are the receptive skills?
One measures student understanding throughout the learning process and the other measures student understanding at the end.
What are formative and summative assessments?
This approach to language teaching focuses on students as emergent bilinguals rather than as language learners, developing two languages at once.
What is translanguaging pedagogy?
The three components of a good objective.
What are active verbs, performance conditions, and language target(s)?
The four aspects of communicative competence.
What are grammatical, strategic, discourse, and pragmatic competence?
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?
This term characterizes texts (both written and spoken), learning material, tasks, etc. by how closely they provide real-life examples of language used in everyday situations.
What is authenticity?
What are authentic materials?
A teaching method that focuses on the embodiment of new vocabulary.
What is Total Physical Response (TPR)?
The three interrelated aspects of the "cycle" of teaching and learning.
What are instruction, learning, and assessment?
In the process of learning, this is the stage at which the learner begins to realize that there is a language feature they don't fully understand.
What is Noticing?
These are the six discourses of writing.
What are skills, creativity, process, genre, social practices, and sociopolitical discourses?
This is a visual representation of the hierarchical functioning used to classify educational learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?