Teaching approaches
It's the main focus of the Communicative Approach
What is communication and fluency in real-life situations
This term describes a student's ability to work independedntly without the teacher's guidance.
What is learner's autonomy?
This is the purpose of a placement test.
What is to determine a learner's proficiency level and place them in an appropriate class?
This is the definition of L1.
What is a mother's first language or mother tongue?
These are the different arrangements you could have in a classroom to get work done.
What is Interaction patterns?
This approach emphasizes step- by- step teaching of skills.
What is the skills-based approach.
This term describes the natural ability to learn a language.
What is Language Aptitude?
This type of assessment happens during the learning process and aims to improve learnig by providing feedback based on result and/or observation.
What is Formative assessment?
This is the term for errors that learners make because of the influence from their first language.
What is L1 Interference?
This is what teachers do when they walk around the classroom and intervene only when necessary.
What is monitoring?
In this approach the teacher asks as a facilitator, and students work in groups to explore tasks.
What is Task-based learning?
These are sets of characteristics that refer to how learners prefer to take in and process information.
What is learning styles?
Mention the difference between formative and summative assessment.
What is summative evaluates the final outcome and formative evaluates ongoing learning?
This stage of language acquisition involves silent observation and minimal speaking.
What is the Silent period?
This is a listening skill where the learner focuses on understanding the overall meaning of what's being said.
What is listening for gist?
This approach focuses on memmorizing rules and vocabulary lists.
What is Grammar- Translation Method?
This is when learners are motivated by personal satisfation rather than external rewards.
What is Intrinsic motivation?
This type of test measures how well students remember previously taught material.
What is Achievement test?
This is when language errors become permanent and do not improve despite teaching.
What is fossilization?
This refers to the natural way words and sounds are linked together, in fluent spoken language, often resulting in changes to pronunciation.
What is connected speech?
This approach believes that language is best learnt if presented through interesting topics that increase students' knowledge of the world.
What is tContent-based learning?
This term describes the factors in a learner's environment that might affect their learning. For example, resources, kind of motivation, language aptitude...
What is learning context?
In this type of assessment learners give opinions on each other's language or work.
What is peer assessment?
This is the critical period hypothesis.
What is the theory that there is a limited time period during which language acquisition occurs most easily?
It's the study of the sound features used in language to communicate meaning.
What is Phonology?