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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
2. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
3. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Communicative
4. Text - plays - dialogues drive T's demonstrations of their meanings; objects (realia) in class
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Total Physical Response
5. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Activities: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
6. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
7. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Activities: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
8. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
9. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
10. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Theory of language: Communicative
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
11. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Silent Way
12. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Total Physical Response
13. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
14. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
15. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
16. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
17. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
18. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Activities: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
19. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Silent Way
20. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Direct Method
21. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Syllabus: Communicative
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
22. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Direct Method
23. No textbook; materials developed as course progresses
Theory of language: Communicative
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
24. To be able to read literature in L2; translate L2 to L1 and vice versa; achieve proficiency in L2 reading and writing
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Communicative
25. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
26. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
27. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Activities: Suggestopedia
28. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
29. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Activities: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Communcative
30. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
31. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
32. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Activities: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
33. Active and direct role - 'director' of stage play with students as actors
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
34. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Activities: Suggestopedia
35. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Activities: Silent Way
Syllabus: Silent Way
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
36. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of language: Communicative
37. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Communicative
38. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Total Physical Response
39. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
40. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Silent Way
41. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
42. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
43. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Syllabus: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
44. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Activities: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
45. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Communicative
46. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
47. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Audiolingual
Activities: Situational Language Learning
48. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Objectives: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Syllabus: Communicative
Activities: Total Physical Response
49. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
50. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation