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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Silent Way
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Theory of language: Communicative
2. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
3. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Silent Way
4. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Communicative
5. Memorization and habit forming
Objectives: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Direct Method
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
6. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Activities: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
7. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
8. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Activity Types: Communicative
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Activities: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
9. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Syllabus: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
10. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Communicative
Material Roles: Communcative
Activities: Suggestopedia
11. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
12. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
13. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Activity Types: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Activities: Silent Way
14. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Theory of language: Communicative
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Communicative
15. Use L2 exclusively; inductive grammar; much speaking - T to Ss and Ss to Ss; dictation
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
16. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
17. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Direct Method
18. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Activities: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
19. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
20. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
21. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Language: Silent Way
22. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
23. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Activity Types: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Direct Method
24. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Communicative
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
25. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
26. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of language: Communicative
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
27. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Activities: Suggestopedia
Activity types: Grammar Translation
28. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Communicative
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Silent Way
29. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Total Physical Response
30. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
31. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
32. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Activities: Silent Way
33. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
34. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Objectives: Community Language Learning
35. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
36. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Communcative
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
37. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Activities: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Objectives: Direct Method
38. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Communcative
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
39. Ten-unit courses consisting of 1 -200 word dialogues - graded by vocab and grammar
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Silent Way
40. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
41. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Activities: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Audiolingual
42. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Activities: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Communicative
43. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Community Language Learning
44. Objectives reflect needs of learners; include functional skills & linguistic objectives
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Communicative
45. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Silent Way
46. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Activities: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
47. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Silent Way
48. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Communicative
49. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Communicative
50. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning