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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
2. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Learner Roles: Communicative
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
3. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Communicative
4. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
5. Memorization and habit forming
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
6. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
7. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Activities: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Material Roles: Communcative
Syllabus: Natural Approach
8. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Community Language Learning
9. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning
10. Ten-unit courses consisting of 1 -200 word dialogues - graded by vocab and grammar
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
11. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
12. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Direct Method
13. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Natural Approach
14. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Syllabus: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
15. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Silent Way
16. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Communicative
Objectives: Total Physical Response
17. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Communicative
18. Active and direct role - 'director' of stage play with students as actors
Objectives: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Direct Method
19. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Activities: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
20. No textbook; materials developed as course progresses
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Direct Method
21. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
22. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
23. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Direct Method
24. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Syllabus: Direct Method
Activities: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Audiolingual
25. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Syllabus: Silent Way
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Audiolingual
26. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
27. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Silent Way
28. Dialogues & drills; repetition & memorization pattern practice
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Objectives: Community Language Learning
29. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Direct Method
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Activities: Total Physical Response
30. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
31. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Syllabus: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Activities: Total Physical Response
32. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Grammar Translation
33. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Communicative
34. Objectives reflect needs of learners; include functional skills & linguistic objectives
Objectives: Communicative
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
35. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Direct Method
36. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Audiolingual
37. Text - plays - dialogues drive T's demonstrations of their meanings; objects (realia) in class
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Communicative
38. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Communicative
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
39. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Objectives: Total Physical Response
40. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
41. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
42. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Direct Method
43. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
44. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
45. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Theory of language: Communicative
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Communcative
Syllabus: Communicative
46. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Material Roles: Communcative
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Silent Way
47. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
48. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Activities: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Silent Way
49. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Activities: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
50. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Direct Method