Say the Term
When a teacher assesses learners and then gives them a formal report or grade, to say how successful or unsuccessful they have been
What's Formal assessment?
It refers to language that occurs in (semi-)fixed units and that we usually learn as one piece.
What's a chunk?
The best way to learn language is to use it in interaction rather than to learn (study) about it.
What are communicative approache?
It starts by planning the work, drafting it, and then goes on to editing, re-drafting and proofreading.
What are the stages of a writing process?
It is what the teacher would like to improve in his/her teaching, e.g. to reduce the time I spend writing on the whiteboard.
What's Personal aim
When learners give their opinions on each other’s language or work.
What's Peer assessment?
Tasks and activities for each stage.
What are procedures?
Language is best learnt if presented to learners through interesting topics which help them increase their knowledge of the world.
What is a content-based learning?
What support can you give children before doing a listening?
What is you can pre-teach key words and set pre-listening tasks.
When a teacher uses formal and informal assessment and information on learners’ progress during a course to give learners feedback on their learning or to change their teaching.
What is Formative assessment
It is the secondary focus of the lesson, less important than the main aim. It could be the language or skills learners use in order to achieve the main aim of the lesson
What's subsidiary aim?
Something the teacher wants to improve about his or her teaching
What are personal aims?
What does CLIL stand for?
What is content and Language Integrated Learning. Language serves to communicate meaning. Lessons focus on the subject rather than on language.
What can help learners to bring in their own knowledge of the world to understanding a text?
Pre-teaching vocabulary, doing lead-in activities, brainstorming.
How can we carry out informal assessment of receptive skills?
What is y checking learners’ answers to reading and listening tasks.
Language which is suitable in a particular situation; e.g. it might be appropriate to say Hi in one situation but Good morning in another.
What's Appropriacy
The students take this kind of test in order to find out how good they are at a language.
What is a proficiency test?
Learners learn by being exposed to language. Comprehension comes before production. Language is learnt best when it is accompanied by doing things physically. Learning takes place when learners are relaxed.
What is Total Physical Response (TPR)?
How can you focus on accuracy in speaking?
What's by controlled practice.
A task-type in which learners read a text with missing words and try to work out what the missing words are.
What is Cloze test
The ability to do something without making mistakes. The use of correct forms of grammar, vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation.
What's Accuracy?
Students complete a text with selected words blanked out. Tests knowledge of grammar and/or lexis. Marking can be difficult as gaps may allow more than one answer.
What is a gap fill?
Language is learnt by first seeing new language in a context which shows its meaning. The reasons we communicate are the most important aspect of a language.
What is the functional approach?
It is also called reading for pleasure, involves reading long pieces of text, for example a story or an article.
What is extensive reading?
Assesses Ss' awareness of error. A highly realistic task which should encourage learners to check their own writing.
What is proofreading?