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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Communicative
2. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Silent Way
3. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
4. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Objectives: Total Physical Response
5. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Objectives: Communicative
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
6. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Activities: Natural Approach
7. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Activities: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Objectives: Audiolingual
8. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Activities: Situational Language Learning
9. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Syllabus: Communicative
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Silent Way
10. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Syllabus: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Material Roles: Communcative
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
11. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
12. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
13. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
14. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
15. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
16. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Communicative
17. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Audiolingual
18. Memorization and habit forming
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
19. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Communicative
Syllabus: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
20. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Syllabus: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Direct Method
21. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Activities: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Activities: Silent Way
22. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
23. Objectives reflect needs of learners; include functional skills & linguistic objectives
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Direct Method
Objectives: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
24. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
25. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Activity Types: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
26. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Material Roles: Communcative
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Communicative
27. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
28. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
29. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
30. No textbook; materials developed as course progresses
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
31. Dialogues & drills; repetition & memorization pattern practice
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Audiolingual
32. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
33. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Direct Method
34. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Activities: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
35. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
36. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
37. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
38. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
39. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Natural Approach
Activities: Total Physical Response
40. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Direct Method
41. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Silent Way
42. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
43. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Objectives: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
44. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Activities: Silent Way
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Silent Way
45. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
46. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
47. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Objectives: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
48. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
49. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Material Roles: Communcative
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of language: Communicative
50. Literary language is superior to spoken language
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Communcative