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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. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
2. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
3. No textbook; materials developed as course progresses
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
4. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
5. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
6. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Communicative
7. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Activities: Silent Way
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Activities: Situational Language Learning
8. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Objectives: Communicative
9. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Silent Way
10. Use L2 exclusively; inductive grammar; much speaking - T to Ss and Ss to Ss; dictation
Activities: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Activity Types: Direct Method
Material Roles: Communcative
11. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
12. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Language: Silent Way
13. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Syllabus: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Activities: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
14. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Activities: Total Physical Response
15. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
16. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Communicative
17. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Silent Way
18. 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
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
19. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Communicative
Objectives: Direct Method
20. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Activities: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Communicative
21. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Activity Types: Direct Method
Activity types: Grammar Translation
22. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Communicative
23. Ten-unit courses consisting of 1 -200 word dialogues - graded by vocab and grammar
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
24. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Communcative
25. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
26. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
27. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
28. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
29. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
30. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
31. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of language: Communicative
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
32. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
33. Dialogues & drills; repetition & memorization pattern practice
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
34. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
35. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
36. Memorization and habit forming
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
37. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Activities: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
38. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Communicative
39. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Objectives: Direct Method
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
40. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
41. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Activities: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
42. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
43. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Activity Types: Communicative
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Direct Method
44. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
45. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Activities: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
46. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Communicative
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
47. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
48. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Activities: Suggestopedia
Activities: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
49. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Activity Types: Audiolingual
50. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation