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Language Teaching Methods
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teaching
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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. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
2. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Activities: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
3. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Natural Approach
4. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Learner Roles: Communicative
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
5. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Direct Method
6. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
7. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Communicative
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
8. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Syllabus: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Communicative
9. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Communicative
Activity types: Grammar Translation
10. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
11. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Activity Types: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
12. Maintain passive state; allow materials to work on them
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
13. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
14. Ten-unit courses consisting of 1 -200 word dialogues - graded by vocab and grammar
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
15. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Activities: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
16. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
17. Text - plays - dialogues drive T's demonstrations of their meanings; objects (realia) in class
Syllabus: Communicative
Syllabus: Silent Way
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Direct Method
18. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
19. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
20. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
21. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Communicative
Material Roles: Communcative
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
22. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
23. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Audiolingual
24. Based on here and now - focus on meaning - not form; must allow for comprehensible input
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Syllabus: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Natural Approach
25. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
26. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Silent Way
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Activities: Suggestopedia
27. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Activities: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Objectives: Community Language Learning
28. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
29. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Objectives: Communicative
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
30. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Syllabus: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Communicative
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
31. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Communicative
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
32. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Activities: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
33. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Communicative
34. Active and direct role - 'director' of stage play with students as actors
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
35. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
36. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Activities: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
37. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
38. Dialogues & drills; repetition & memorization pattern practice
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Activity Types: Audiolingual
39. Objectives reflect needs of learners; include functional skills & linguistic objectives
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Communicative
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
40. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
41. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Activities: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Communicative
42. Memorization and habit forming
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Total Physical Response
43. No textbook; materials developed as course progresses
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
44. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Objectives: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Objectives: Grammar Translation
45. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Activities: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Communcative
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
46. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Activities: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
47. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Activity types: Grammar Translation
48. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Activities: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Communicative
49. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
50. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Silent Way