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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
2. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Theory of language: Communicative
3. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Objectives: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
4. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Objectives: Direct Method
Syllabus: Audiolingual
5. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Activities: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Community Language Learning
6. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Total Physical Response
7. To be able to read literature in L2; translate L2 to L1 and vice versa; achieve proficiency in L2 reading and writing
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
8. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Material Roles: Communcative
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
9. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Activities: Suggestopedia
Activities: Natural Approach
10. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Language: Direct Method
11. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Activities: Silent Way
12. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
13. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
14. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
15. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Communicative
16. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Activities: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
17. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Communicative
18. Dialogues & drills; repetition & memorization pattern practice
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Communcative
Syllabus: Communicative
19. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Objectives: Audiolingual
20. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Communicative
21. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Objectives: Direct Method
22. Objectives reflect needs of learners; include functional skills & linguistic objectives
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
23. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
24. Memorization and habit forming
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Silent Way
Objectives: Total Physical Response
25. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of language: Communicative
Objectives: Community Language Learning
26. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
27. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Direct Method
28. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Activity Types: Communicative
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Material Roles: Communcative
29. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
30. Text - plays - dialogues drive T's demonstrations of their meanings; objects (realia) in class
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Direct Method
Syllabus: Communicative
Materials Roles: Direct Method
31. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Syllabus: Silent Way
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
32. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
33. Active and direct role - 'director' of stage play with students as actors
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
34. Use L2 exclusively; inductive grammar; much speaking - T to Ss and Ss to Ss; dictation
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Activity Types: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
35. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Syllabus: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Activities: Suggestopedia
36. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
37. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Activities: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
38. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Communicative
39. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Direct Method
40. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Activities: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
41. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Objectives: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
42. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Communicative
Objectives: Grammar Translation
43. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
44. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
45. Literary language is superior to spoken language
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Communcative
46. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Activity Types: Communicative
Syllabus: Natural Approach
47. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Activities: Total Physical Response
48. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Syllabus: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
49. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Direct Method
50. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Natural Approach