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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Communicative
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
2. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
3. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
4. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
5. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Activities: Natural Approach
Activities: Total Physical Response
6. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
7. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
8. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
9. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
10. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Direct Method
11. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Activity Types: Direct Method
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
12. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
13. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Communicative
14. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning
15. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Syllabus: Communicative
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Theory of language: Communicative
Syllabus: Silent Way
16. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
17. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
18. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
19. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
20. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Communcative
Syllabus: Communicative
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
21. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Syllabus: Communicative
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Direct Method
22. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Activities: Situational Language Learning
23. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Activities: Situational Language Learning
24. Use L2 exclusively; inductive grammar; much speaking - T to Ss and Ss to Ss; dictation
Activity Types: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Objectives: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Communicative
25. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Activities: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
26. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
27. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
28. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
29. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Activities: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
30. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
31. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Grammar Translation
32. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Direct Method
33. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
34. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Natural Approach
35. No textbook; materials developed as course progresses
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Activity types: Grammar Translation
36. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Activities: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
37. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Silent Way
38. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Communicative
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Material Roles: Communcative
39. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
40. Literary language is superior to spoken language
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
41. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Activity Types: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Silent Way
42. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Activities: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
43. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Activities: Total Physical Response
44. Active and direct role - 'director' of stage play with students as actors
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
45. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
46. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
47. Ten-unit courses consisting of 1 -200 word dialogues - graded by vocab and grammar
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
48. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
49. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
50. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning