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Language Teaching Methods
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Direct Method
2. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
3. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Theory of language: Communicative
4. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Natural Approach
5. Authentic & task based materials to promote communication
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Communcative
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Total Physical Response
6. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Silent Way
7. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Activity Types: Audiolingual
8. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
9. Answer and ask questions - use L2 and communicate as if in real situations
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Direct Method
10. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
11. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Objectives: Total Physical Response
12. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Activities: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Natural Approach
13. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Syllabus: Natural Approach
14. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Community Language Learning
15. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
16. Use L2 exclusively; inductive grammar; much speaking - T to Ss and Ss to Ss; dictation
Activities: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Direct Method
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
17. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
18. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Theory of language: Communicative
Objectives: Communicative
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
19. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Direct Method
20. Text - plays - dialogues drive T's demonstrations of their meanings; objects (realia) in class
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Direct Method
21. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
22. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning
23. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of language: Communicative
Activity Types: Audiolingual
24. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
25. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
26. 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 Learning: Communicative
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
27. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
28. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Material Roles: Communcative
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
29. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
30. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Activities: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
31. Ten-unit courses consisting of 1 -200 word dialogues - graded by vocab and grammar
Syllabus: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
32. 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
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
33. Realia rather than textbooks; aim is to promote comprehension and communication
Material Roles: Communcative
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
34. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Direct Method
35. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Syllabus: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
36. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
37. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Syllabus: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Theory of language: Communicative
38. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Communicative
39. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Objectives: Community Language Learning
40. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Objectives: Community Language Learning
41. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
42. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Learner Roles: Communicative
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
43. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
44. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Objectives: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
45. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Syllabus: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Direct Method
46. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
47. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Direct Method
48. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Syllabus: Direct Method
Activities: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Silent Way
49. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Activities: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Direct Method
Syllabus: Silent Way
50. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia