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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Activities: Situational Language Learning
2. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
3. Objectives reflect needs of learners; include functional skills & linguistic objectives
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Communicative
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
4. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Objectives: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Direct Method
5. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Learner Roles: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
6. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Silent Way
7. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
8. To be able to read literature in L2; translate L2 to L1 and vice versa; achieve proficiency in L2 reading and writing
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Objectives: Grammar Translation
9. Dialogues & drills; repetition & memorization pattern practice
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Activity Types: Audiolingual
10. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
11. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Communicative
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of language: Communicative
12. Memorization and habit forming
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Communcative
13. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Natural Approach
14. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
15. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Communicative
Objectives: Community Language Learning
16. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Activities: Suggestopedia
17. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
18. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Communicative
Activities: Total Physical Response
19. Use L2 exclusively; inductive grammar; much speaking - T to Ss and Ss to Ss; dictation
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
20. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Objectives: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
21. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
22. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Direct Method
23. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
24. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Objectives: Community Language Learning
25. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
26. Active and direct role - 'director' of stage play with students as actors
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of language: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
27. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Silent Way
28. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Direct Method
29. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of language: Communicative
30. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
31. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Material Roles: Communcative
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
32. No textbook; materials developed as course progresses
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
33. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
34. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Activities: Situational Language Learning
35. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Theory of language: Communicative
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
36. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Activities: Total Physical Response
37. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Objectives: Communicative
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Communicative
38. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Syllabus: Communicative
Material Roles: Communcative
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
39. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
40. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
41. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Communicative
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Grammar Translation
42. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
43. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Objectives: Audiolingual
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
44. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
45. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
46. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
47. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
48. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Activities: Total Physical Response
49. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Direct Method
Objectives: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
50. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response