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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. Sentence-based with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary focus on meaning - not form
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Objectives: Grammar Translation
2. Facilator of communication process; needs analyst - counsellor; process manager
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
3. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Communicative
4. Must teach - test - get out of way; remain impassive; resist temptation to model - assist - direct - or exhort
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Communicative
5. Information sharing; negotiation of meaning & interaction
Activities: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Activity Types: Communicative
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
6. Act as model in presenting structures; lead drill practice; correct errors; test progress
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Direct Method
7. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of language: Communicative
Syllabus: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Communicative
8. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Syllabus: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
9. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
10. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
11. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
12. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Direct Method
Activity Types: Audiolingual
13. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Activities: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
14. A list of structures and vocab - graded by grammatical complexity
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
15. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Activities: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
16. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Activities: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Activities: Silent Way
17. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
18. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
19. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Activity Types: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Activities: Total Physical Response
20. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Activities: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Direct Method
21. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
22. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Activities: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Communicative
23. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
24. Student respond to commands - questions - visual cues; encourage and shape oral responses; no grammar explanation or modeling
Activities: Silent Way
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Activity types: Grammar Translation
25. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
26. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
27. Each language has unique rhythm and spirit; core structure and functional vocab are keys to spirit
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Direct Method
28. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
29. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
30. Text - plays - dialogues drive T's demonstrations of their meanings; objects (realia) in class
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Direct Method
31. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Communicative
32. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
33. Language is a system for expression of meaning; primary function is interaction & communication
Theory of language: Communicative
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Material Roles: Communcative
34. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Communicative
35. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Activities: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
36. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Communicative
37. Learners as negotiator - interactor - giving & receiving information
Syllabus: Direct Method
Activity Types: Communicative
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Communicative
38. Should try to lose themselves in activities involving meaningful communication
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Communicative
39. Acquire vocab by speaking full sentences in L2; communication is purpose of language learning
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
40. No set syllabus; syllabus comes from learners' intentions and teachers reformulations
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Direct Method
41. Learners are members of a community; learning not an individual accomplishment - but is achieved collaboratively
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Direct Method
42. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Activities: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
43. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
44. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Communicative
Syllabus: Direct Method
45. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Direct Method
46. Basically structuralist - grammar-based view of language
Theory of Language: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Communcative
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
47. 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
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Activities: Natural Approach
48. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Communicative
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
49. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Theory of language: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
50. Memorization and habit forming
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Material Roles: Community Language Learning