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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Grammar Translation
2. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Activities: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Communicative
3. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Objectives: Direct Method
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
4. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Direct Method
5. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
6. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
7. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Objectives: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Natural Approach
8. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Total Physical Response
9. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
10. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Communicative
11. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Syllabus: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
12. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Activities: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
13. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Activities: Situational Language Learning
14. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
15. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Activities: Suggestopedia
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
16. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
17. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
18. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Silent Way
19. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Activity Types: Communicative
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
20. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Activities: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Silent Way
21. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
22. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Communicative
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
23. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Direct Method
24. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Natural Approach
25. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Communicative
26. Literary language is superior to spoken language
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activities: Total Physical Response
27. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Syllabus: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Communicative
Objectives: Communicative
28. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
29. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Communicative
30. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Activities: Suggestopedia
Theory of language: Communicative
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
31. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
32. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Direct Method
33. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
34. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Silent Way
35. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
36. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Objectives: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
37. To be able to read literature in L2; translate L2 to L1 and vice versa; achieve proficiency in L2 reading and writing
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Activities: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
38. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
39. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Objectives: Grammar Translation
40. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
41. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of language: Communicative
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
42. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Communicative
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
43. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Objectives: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
44. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Communcative
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
45. Dialogues & drills; repetition & memorization pattern practice
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
46. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Suggestopedia
47. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
48. Active and direct role - 'director' of stage play with students as actors
Activities: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Audiolingual
49. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
50. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia