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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. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
2. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of language: Communicative
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
3. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Learner Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Audiolingual
4. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
5. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
6. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Communicative
7. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
8. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Objectives: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
9. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Silent Way
10. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
11. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
12. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
13. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
14. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Syllabus: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
15. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
16. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
17. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Objectives: Direct Method
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Direct Method
18. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
19. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Communicative
20. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
21. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Objectives: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
22. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Learner Roles: Communicative
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Objectives: Audiolingual
23. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Objectives: Direct Method
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
24. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
25. Memorization and habit forming
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Activity types: Grammar Translation
26. Literary language is superior to spoken language
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
27. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Activity Types: Audiolingual
28. Active and direct role - 'director' of stage play with students as actors
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Activity Types: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
29. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
30. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Total Physical Response
31. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Objectives: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Communcative
32. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Activities: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
33. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
34. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Communcative
35. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
36. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Audiolingual
37. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Direct Method
38. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
39. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Activities: Total Physical Response
40. Ten-unit courses consisting of 1 -200 word dialogues - graded by vocab and grammar
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Activity Types: Communicative
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
41. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Communicative
42. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
43. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
44. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
45. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
46. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Communicative
47. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
48. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Direct Method
49. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Language: Silent Way
50. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Activities: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Activities: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Silent Way