Teaching Approaches
This is an oral-based approach based on behaviorism.
What is the audiolingual method?
The type of assessment that is carried out during learning and focuses on ongoing development and informs instruction.
What is formative assessment?
A view of language that sees language as something that can be right or wrong.
What is prescriptivism?
e.g., Speaking; Writing
What are the productive skills?
The different varieties of English spoken around the world.
What is World Englishes?
This approach emerged in the late 1970s and took hold in the 1990s. It put students' ability to communicate above all else.
What is communicative language teaching?
Starting from the objective and then planning the activities to reach that objective.
What is backward design?
The three aspects of grammatical knowledge.
What are form, meaning, and use?
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)?
An approach to teaching that recognizes the importance of infusing the students' cultural references in all of their learning.
What is culturally responsive pedagogy?
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?
Examples include questioning, complaining, requesting, planning, apologizing, expressing...
What are language functions?
e.g., Listening; Reading
What are the receptive skills?
One aspect of language that focuses on grammatical correctness and another aspect that focuses on efficient and effective use.
What are accuracy and fluency?
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)?
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?
The input that is actually comprehended by the learners and influences the development of their L2.
What is intake?
These are the six discourses of writing.
What are skills, creativity, process, genre, social practices, and sociopolitical discourses?
The four strands in a typical CLT lesson.