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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of language: Communicative
Objectives: Communicative
2. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Syllabus: Communicative
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
3. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Activities: Silent Way
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
4. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
5. Memorization and habit forming
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Silent Way
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
6. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Communicative
7. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
8. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
9. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Language: Silent Way
10. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Activities: Total Physical Response
11. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
12. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
13. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Activity Types: Communicative
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Natural Approach
14. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Activities: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Communicative
15. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
16. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Syllabus: Communicative
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
17. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
18. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Activities: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Activities: Silent Way
Activity Types: Audiolingual
19. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Syllabus: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
20. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Learner Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Direct Method
Activities: Natural Approach
21. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
22. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
23. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
24. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Objectives: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Audiolingual
25. Objectives reflect needs of learners; include functional skills & linguistic objectives
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
26. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
27. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Activities: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Audiolingual
28. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Communicative
29. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Activities: Silent Way
Objectives: Audiolingual
30. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
31. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Communcative
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
32. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Silent Way
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
33. 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
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
34. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Objectives: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
35. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Activities: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
36. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Theory of language: Communicative
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Audiolingual
37. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Silent Way
38. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Direct Method
39. Literary language is superior to spoken language
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
40. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
41. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
42. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
43. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
44. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
45. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Silent Way
46. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
47. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Activities: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
48. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Activity Types: Communicative
Activities: Silent Way
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Silent Way
49. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Communicative
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
50. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Direct Method
Syllabus: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Direct Method