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Language Teaching Methods
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teaching
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Silent Way
Activity Types: Audiolingual
2. Memorization and habit forming
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Direct Method
Activity Types: Audiolingual
3. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Activities: Natural Approach
Objectives: Community Language Learning
4. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Activities: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
5. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Natural Approach
6. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Objectives: Audiolingual
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
7. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
8. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Objectives: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Silent Way
9. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
10. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
11. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
12. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Community Language Learning
13. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Communicative
14. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
15. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Activities: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
16. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
17. Text - plays - dialogues drive T's demonstrations of their meanings; objects (realia) in class
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Activities: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Direct Method
18. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Objectives: Direct Method
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
19. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Activities: Total Physical Response
20. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Syllabus: Communicative
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
21. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Language: Direct Method
22. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Direct Method
23. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
24. Objectives reflect needs of learners; include functional skills & linguistic objectives
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
25. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Suggestopedia
26. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
27. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
28. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
29. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Communcative
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
30. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Objectives: Direct Method
Syllabus: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
31. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Total Physical Response
32. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
33. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Audiolingual
34. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Activities: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
35. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Silent Way
36. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Direct Method
37. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Communicative
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
38. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Silent Way
39. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Activities: Suggestopedia
40. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Activities: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Silent Way
41. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Communcative
Syllabus: Communicative
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
42. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
43. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Activity Types: Audiolingual
44. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
45. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Total Physical Response
46. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Communicative
47. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
48. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Direct Method
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
49. Ten-unit courses consisting of 1 -200 word dialogues - graded by vocab and grammar
Learner Roles: Communicative
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
50. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Activities: Natural Approach