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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. Active and direct role - 'director' of stage play with students as actors
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
2. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Communcative
3. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
4. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
5. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Activities: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Communicative
6. Memorization and habit forming
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Communicative
7. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
8. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Activity Types: Audiolingual
9. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning
10. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Silent Way
11. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Objectives: Communicative
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Audiolingual
12. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
13. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Theory of language: Communicative
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
14. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
15. Literary language is superior to spoken language
Objectives: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
16. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Communicative
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
17. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
18. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
Syllabus: Direct Method
19. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Learner Roles: Communicative
20. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
21. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Objectives: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
22. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Activities: Natural Approach
23. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
24. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
25. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Communicative
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
26. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Activities: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
27. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Communicative
28. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Theory of language: Communicative
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
29. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Audiolingual
30. No textbook; materials developed as course progresses
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Activities: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Audiolingual
31. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
32. Text - plays - dialogues drive T's demonstrations of their meanings; objects (realia) in class
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Direct Method
33. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Objectives: Direct Method
34. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
35. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Total Physical Response
36. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
37. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
38. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Activities: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
39. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
40. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
41. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Objectives: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Communicative
42. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Communicative
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
43. To be able to read literature in L2; translate L2 to L1 and vice versa; achieve proficiency in L2 reading and writing
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Objectives: Grammar Translation
44. Objectives reflect needs of learners; include functional skills & linguistic objectives
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
45. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
46. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Activities: Suggestopedia
47. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Audiolingual
48. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Theory of language: Communicative
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
49. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
50. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Activities: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Total Physical Response