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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Activities: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Audiolingual
2. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
3. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Activities: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Communicative
4. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Objectives: Direct Method
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
5. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Syllabus: Direct Method
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
6. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of language: Communicative
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
7. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Communcative
Activities: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
8. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Communicative
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
9. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Communicative
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
10. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
11. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Activities: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Audiolingual
12. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Learner Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
13. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
14. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Communicative
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
15. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
16. Memorization and habit forming
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
17. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
18. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Activities: Situational Language Learning
19. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Syllabus: Communicative
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Direct Method
Objectives: Communicative
20. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Syllabus: Silent Way
Activities: Suggestopedia
21. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Activities: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
22. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Syllabus: Direct Method
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
23. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
24. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
25. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Activities: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Direct Method
26. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Natural Approach
27. Literary language is superior to spoken language
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
28. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
29. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
30. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
31. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Activity types: Grammar Translation
32. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
33. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
34. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Activities: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Grammar Translation
35. Use L2 exclusively; inductive grammar; much speaking - T to Ss and Ss to Ss; dictation
Syllabus: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Silent Way
Activity Types: Direct Method
36. No textbook; materials developed as course progresses
Syllabus: Communicative
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Audiolingual
37. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Communicative
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Total Physical Response
38. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
39. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
40. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Activities: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Silent Way
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
41. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Learner Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Communicative
42. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
43. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Activities: Silent Way
Syllabus: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
44. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
45. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Silent Way
46. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Activity Types: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Material Roles: Communcative
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
47. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Syllabus: Communicative
Material Roles: Communcative
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
48. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Direct Method
49. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Direct Method
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
50. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach