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Teaching Methods Foreign Language

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






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






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






4. (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






5. The A of the PACE lesson; focuses learners' attention on some aspect of the language used during the Presentation phase. The attention phase takes place after the class has understood the story and is ready to move to a conversation about an importan






6. 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






7. Second Language Acquisition






8. 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






9. Krashen building on Chomsky --> 'acquisition occurs only when learners receive an optimal quantity of COMPREHENSIBLE - interesting input - A LITTLE BEYOND THEIR CURRENT LEVEL OF COMPETENCE (i + 1= a little beyond learner's current level) and NOT gram






10. '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)






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






12. The segment of a lesson where the teacher models the skill that the students will be asked to demonstrate. The students are given specific instructions which are modeled for them. They then perform an activity according to these specific steps - usin






13. 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.






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






15. Oral Proficiency Interview offered by ACTFL






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






17. 'the ability to use language to perform global tasks or language function within a variety of contexts/content areas - with a given degree of accuracy - and by means of specific text types.' p. 247






18. By providing grammar in context - in an implicit manner - teachers can expose students to substantial doses of grammar. The book recommends a dialogic co-construction approach to grammar instruction. Pg 219






19. Direct instruction of grammar focusing on form and accuracy but has been shown not to be effective on accuracy of written product






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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






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






25. Wrapping up loose ends at end of lesson - reducing ambiguity - students oriented towards closure want rules spelled out for them and like organization - a clear plan - and self-evaluating.






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






27. (ch 2 - p 41) In reaction to Grammar-Translation method (of Classical languages -) emphasizing speaking through visuals - exclusive use of the target language - and inductive teaching (ie: students subconsciously 'pick up' grammar rules and guess mea






28. Refers to grouping words of any number of parts of speech around a thematic topic - e.g. frog - pond - green - hopping - swim - slippery - etc.. this allows students to genterate content for presentational writing or speaking.






29. 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






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






31. '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)






32. 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






33. PA State Modern Language Association






34. Varying teaching to accommodate different learning styles - levels - and multiple intelligences. Considers different students needs. Is cohesive with guiding principals - enduring understandings - and meaningful purpose throughout. (ch 10)






35. 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






36. 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






37. North East Conference for Teaching Foreign Language






38. 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






39. Communication - comparisons - communities - connections - cultures-->National 'Standards of Foreign Language Learning' -->SFLL developed by ACTFL


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






41. 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






42. American Association of Teachers of German






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






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






45. 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






46. 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)






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






48. 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






49. 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.






50. 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