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Language Teaching Methods
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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
Syllabus: Silent Way
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
2. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Audiolingual
3. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Activities: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Communicative
4. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Objectives: Direct Method
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Communicative
5. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Audiolingual
6. Literary language is superior to spoken language
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Activity Types: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
7. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
8. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activities: Natural Approach
9. Dialogues & drills; repetition & memorization pattern practice
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Activity Types: Audiolingual
10. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
11. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Objectives: Communicative
Objectives: Total Physical Response
12. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Silent Way
13. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Communicative
14. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
15. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
16. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
17. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Material Roles: Communcative
Syllabus: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
18. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Silent Way
19. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Direct Method
20. To be able to read literature in L2; translate L2 to L1 and vice versa; achieve proficiency in L2 reading and writing
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
21. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
22. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
23. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Activities: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
24. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
25. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
26. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Activity Types: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Activities: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
27. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Activities: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
28. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Audiolingual
29. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Communicative
30. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
31. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Objectives: Audiolingual
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
32. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
33. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
34. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
35. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
36. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
37. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Activities: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
38. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
39. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
40. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Activities: Situational Language Learning
41. Ten-unit courses consisting of 1 -200 word dialogues - graded by vocab and grammar
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Syllabus: Silent Way
Activities: Total Physical Response
42. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Syllabus: Direct Method
43. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Activities: Silent Way
Theory of language: Communicative
Learner Roles: Communicative
44. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Objectives: Communicative
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Direct Method
45. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Theory of language: Communicative
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activities: Suggestopedia
46. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Syllabus: Communicative
Objectives: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
47. Text - plays - dialogues drive T's demonstrations of their meanings; objects (realia) in class
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
48. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Activity Types: Communicative
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
49. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of language: Communicative
Syllabus: Natural Approach
50. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Natural Approach