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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Dialogues & drills; repetition & memorization pattern practice
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Activity Types: Audiolingual
2. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Activities: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
3. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
4. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
5. Use L2 exclusively; inductive grammar; much speaking - T to Ss and Ss to Ss; dictation
Objectives: Communicative
Activity Types: Direct Method
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
6. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
7. Memorization and habit forming
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Community Language Learning
8. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of language: Communicative
Syllabus: Natural Approach
9. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
10. Text - plays - dialogues drive T's demonstrations of their meanings; objects (realia) in class
Objectives: Direct Method
Theory of language: Communicative
Activities: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Direct Method
11. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Communicative
12. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Material Roles: Communcative
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
13. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Activities: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
14. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
15. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
16. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Direct Method
17. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Activities: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
18. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Silent Way
19. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Syllabus: Direct Method
Objectives: Grammar Translation
20. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
21. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Activity Types: Direct Method
Objectives: Audiolingual
22. Ten-unit courses consisting of 1 -200 word dialogues - graded by vocab and grammar
Activity Types: Direct Method
Objectives: Direct Method
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
23. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Activities: Natural Approach
24. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Communicative
25. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
26. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
27. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Syllabus: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
28. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Activities: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
29. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Communicative
30. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
31. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Activity Types: Communicative
Learner Roles: Silent Way
32. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
33. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Communicative
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
34. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Communicative
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
35. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
36. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
37. Active and direct role - 'director' of stage play with students as actors
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
38. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Activity Types: Communicative
39. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
40. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Activity Types: Communicative
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
41. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
42. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Audiolingual
43. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Syllabus: Communicative
Activities: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Activities: Silent Way
44. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Communicative
45. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Direct Method
46. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
47. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Direct Method
48. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
49. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Communicative
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Communicative
50. To be able to read literature in L2; translate L2 to L1 and vice versa; achieve proficiency in L2 reading and writing
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning