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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. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
2. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
3. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Communicative
4. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of language: Communicative
Material Roles: Communcative
5. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
6. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
7. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of language: Communicative
8. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Objectives: Direct Method
Material Roles: Communcative
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
9. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
10. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
11. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
12. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
13. No textbook; materials developed as course progresses
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Communcative
14. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Activity Types: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
15. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Audiolingual
16. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Activities: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
17. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Objectives: Communicative
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
18. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Activity Types: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
19. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
20. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Audiolingual
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
21. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Objectives: Communicative
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
22. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Theory of language: Communicative
Syllabus: Direct Method
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
23. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Activity Types: Direct Method
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
24. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Communicative
25. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Activities: Suggestopedia
Activities: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Communicative
26. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of language: Communicative
27. Objectives reflect needs of learners; include functional skills & linguistic objectives
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Communicative
28. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
29. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Silent Way
30. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Activities: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Grammar Translation
31. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
32. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Communcative
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
33. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Communicative
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
34. Dialogues & drills; repetition & memorization pattern practice
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Activities: Suggestopedia
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
35. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Direct Method
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
36. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
37. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
38. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Activities: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Audiolingual
39. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
40. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Audiolingual
41. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Objectives: Community Language Learning
42. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Communicative
43. Memorization and habit forming
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Activities: Suggestopedia
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
44. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Communcative
45. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
46. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
47. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
48. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Activity Types: Communicative
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
49. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activities: Silent Way
50. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia