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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Activities: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
2. Text - plays - dialogues drive T's demonstrations of their meanings; objects (realia) in class
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
3. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Silent Way
4. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning
5. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Communicative
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
6. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of language: Communicative
Learner Roles: Communicative
7. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Communicative
8. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Communicative
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
9. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
10. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Theory of language: Communicative
11. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
12. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Silent Way
13. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
14. To be able to read literature in L2; translate L2 to L1 and vice versa; achieve proficiency in L2 reading and writing
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
15. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Objectives: Communicative
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
16. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Direct Method
17. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
18. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Silent Way
19. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
20. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
21. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
22. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Syllabus: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
23. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
24. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Objectives: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Silent Way
25. Memorization and habit forming
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Direct Method
26. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Activities: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Direct Method
27. Use L2 exclusively; inductive grammar; much speaking - T to Ss and Ss to Ss; dictation
Activities: Total Physical Response
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Direct Method
28. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Direct Method
29. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Silent Way
30. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
31. Dialogues & drills; repetition & memorization pattern practice
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Theory of language: Communicative
Activity Types: Audiolingual
32. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of language: Communicative
Activities: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Total Physical Response
33. Literary language is superior to spoken language
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
34. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Total Physical Response
35. Objectives reflect needs of learners; include functional skills & linguistic objectives
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Objectives: Communicative
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
36. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Activities: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Grammar Translation
37. Ten-unit courses consisting of 1 -200 word dialogues - graded by vocab and grammar
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
38. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Natural Approach
39. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Activity Types: Communicative
Syllabus: Natural Approach
40. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
41. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Objectives: Direct Method
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Activity types: Grammar Translation
42. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Objectives: Communicative
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Objectives: Direct Method
43. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Direct Method
44. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Communcative
45. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
46. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Objectives: Communicative
Activity Types: Communicative
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
47. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Material Roles: Communcative
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Objectives: Audiolingual
48. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
49. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Objectives: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
50. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Activities: Total Physical Response