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Teaching Methods Foreign Language

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1. The simulated oral proficiency interview is a performance-based - tape-mediated speaking test.






2. Pennsylvania Department of Education-Standards Aligned System-includes proposed standards for world languages (not yet promulgated)






3. Focus on translation of written text - learn grammar rules and memorization of bilingual vocab list (e.g. Latin






4. 'learners acquire the rules of a language in a predictable sequence - in a way that is independent of the order in which rules may have been taught.' SLLs experience similar stages in development. (p15)






5. Teaching all subjects in TL so that TL not only becomes the object of instruction but the vehicle of instruction as well






6. (Process oriented approach Pg. 301-302) the steps involved in writing a text [...] organized around 3 components: Planning - Translating - Reviewing






7. Deciding standards to be addressed - enduring understandings - and ultimate goals of lesson prior to constructing the lesson.






8. Process by which expert moves novice to the point where he can perform a skill on his own. The learners current point of performance plus the level at which he can potentially perform with the assistance of the expert is the ZPD. This potential level






9. This is when you present the reading text. You need to motivate the students to read the text and give them a clear purpose for the first reading.






10. Use of cooperative learning through the students completing tasks where:1)meaning is primary;2)listeners are not just parroting but rather processing;3)activities are real world based;4)task completion is a priority; 5)assessed on outcome. Emphasis i






11. Present - Attention - Co-construct - Extension: model for structuring contextualized grammar learning. In this model grammar is not directly taught but rather illustrated through the use of authentic discourse (text or speech) which is episodically p






12. (p. 183) involves beginning with the whole - the big picture and purpose - and the idea in L2 - e.g. poem. Then allow the student to experience it - then comprehend it then interact with others - and then focus on specific linguistic ideas like vocab






13. Involves teacher explanations of rules followed by related manipulative exercises intended to practice the new structures; seems to have little or no effect on the grammatical accuracy of the written product Pg. 306






14. PARTICIPATE in multilingual communities at home and in world: 5.1 use language in & outside school: 5.2 become life-long learners using TL for enjoyment and enrichment






15. L2 learning occurs in same way as L1: via authentic language input - real world context - comprehension before production - de-emphasis of grammar at the beginning stage; stresses the importance of authentic language input in real-world contexts - co






16. Target Language






17. Initiate - respond - evaluate: teacher asks a question - student responds - teacher evaluates - i.e. good/not correct/very gooooood--classroom discourse which limits students' involvement. doesn't allow student to use TL for interpersonal communicati






18. Present info - concepts - ideas on variety of topics to an audience of listeners or readers






19. Swain: 'learners need to speak the language to achieve higher levels of competence.' input is not enough. Speaking ' the language for communicating one's ideas - facilitates acquisition.' Helps learner discover gap in what to say and what they are ab






20. Offered by ACTFL: test of oral proficiency that can be delivered electronically and on demand.






21. Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (?Google)






22. Language acquisition must take place in an environment where learners are 'off the defensive' and the affective filter (anxiety) is low in order for the input to be noticed and reflected upon by the learner (p. 15)






23. ACTFL Writing Proficiency Test measures how well you write in a language as well as






24. DEVELOP & DEMONSTRATE insight into nature of language and culture: 4.1 understanding of TL by compairing with own language 4.2 understanding of 'culture' by comparing TL and own culture






25. Total physical response - approach based on 'the way in which children acquire vocab naturally in native language.






26. Total participation techniques






27. Traditional FORL teaching. Students analyze and learn grammar and vocab and later practice using them in communication. 'Skill getting'before






28. Text that has 1) motivation or affect-interesting - conflict - has purpose and 2) logical structure - will be more effective in connecting the reader or listener of the discourse or text to the TL-TEXT THAT IS LOGICALLY ORGANIZED AND HAS ELEMENTS FO






29. COMMUNICATE in other language besides English/native language: converse (interpersonal) - understand spoken and written (interpretive) - present spoken or written info (presentational)






30. Activities that prepare students for the comprehension/interpretation task Pg.199 Tasks aim to deal with all of these issues: to generate interest - build confidence and to facilitate comprehension; setting the context - generating interest - activat






31. American Association of Teachers or Spanish and Portuguese






32. Phase of a PACE lesson. After focusing attention on the target form - teacher assists students in raising their awareness about the target grammatical structure and helps them to compare it w/their own language. Features guided participation as stude






33. Long's theory that speakers will change and modify their language use based on interactions with others. They will negotiate meaning and interact to resolve meaning by 1)simplifying the input (familiar vocab & structures 2)using linguistic and extral






34. Task-based activities where one student has information that another student does NOT have but needs. students must interact 'with others by using TL as means to an end' in an effort to fill in the gaps of information necessary to complete the task.






35. Beginning part of a lesson where teacher must engage the students with interesting topic - essential question and activating vocabulary.






36. The learners current point of performance plus the level at which he can potentially perform with the assistance of the expert is the ZPD. This potential level will become the independent performance level if the expert meets the student at his curre






37. Attaching a real-world context - (ie: cultural) - that students must understand to communicate - providing opportunities in exercise to acquire new info (ex: from other disciplines.) - eliminating fictitious characters and personalizing exercise to s






38. Information/task based gap activity where each member of 'group assumes responsibility for a given portion of the lesson.' They first work with members of a group on same task to become expert on that task or info and then join in a group of expert r






39. 'occurs at the end of a course and is designed to determine what the learner can do with the language at that point' (p.402)






40. GAIN & DEMONSTRATE 2.1 understanding of cultures and relationship between practices and perspectives of TL culture: 2.2 understanding relation between product and perspectives of TL culture






41. American Association of Teachers of German






42. North East Conference for Teaching Foreign Language






43. Defined by Chomsky - ability to function in a communicative setting by using not only grammatical knowledge but also gestures and intonation - strategies for being understood - and risk-taking in attempting communication. MEANINGFUL context.






44. Technology Enhanced Learning - refers to all uses of technology in language education






45. Converse - provide/obtain info - exchange opinions - two-way communication - express feelings and emotions






46. 'visuals that display words or concepts in categories to illustrate how they relate to one another.' (p. 129)






47. Computer Assisted Language Learning - ex: The Rosetta Stone - refers to the application of computers in teaching and learning languages. (pg 408 - ch 12)






48. 'those written and oral communications/texts produced by members of a language and culture group for members of the same language and culture group'; authentic segments are prepared by and for native speakers of the target culture - and NOT for langu






49. Second Language Acquisition






50. Audio-lingual method; teaching oral skills by means of stimuls-response learning; repetition - dialogue memorization - and manipulation of grammatical pattern drills.