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55 Cards in this Set
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What are the four approaches for planning lessons? |
Grammar translation, communicative, behaviourism, direct |
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What should we do first when teaching a new class for the first time? |
Pretest with an active evaluation |
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Why is it important to understand context? |
Helps students relate to what you teach because different cultures think differently |
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What is the challenge of students with multiple proficiencies? |
Creating a lesson not too hard for for low level students and not too easy for high level students |
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What is a filter? |
Something that keeps you from learning the language |
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What are examples of filters? |
Shy, sick, bored, negative attitude |
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what is fossilisation? |
Wrong pronunciation you think is right because nobody told you |
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what is absorption |
Unconsciously learning the langauge |
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what is L1 translation? |
mistake in the sentence order ie. car blue |
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What is SRR? |
The behavioural method: stimulus, response, re-enforcement |
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what are the four Rs? |
Read, remember, recite, repeat |
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what is the aim of the grammar translation method? |
Show the language pattern with grammar rules on the board using words and simple sentences |
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what are the advantages of the grammar translation method? |
Can be used with a big class, it's efficient, and helps to teach grammar rules |
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What is the nickname for the grammar translation method and where did it come from? |
Classic method because it is one of the earliest methods used |
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why did the grammar translation method become popular? |
Because teachers taught huge classes |
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is the grammar translation method still being used today? |
Yes in big elementary school classes |
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what are disadvantages of the grammar translation method? |
No speaking or listening |
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what method is opposite the grammar translation method and why? |
Communicative method because it's just based on conversation |
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how is the communicative method used? |
Teacher actively communicates conversation practice |
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What are the advantages of the communication method? |
Learn to speak the language quickly |
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what are the disadvantages of the communication method |
Can't be a big class, takes a long time, and don't learn to read or write |
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what is the behaviourism key word? |
Habit forming |
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what are the newer methods and why |
Behaviourism and direct because they combine the two others |
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what is used with the behaviourism method |
Stimulus response re-enforce |
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give an example of using the behaviourism method with habit formation |
A researcher rang a bell when they gave food to a dog and the dog learned to salivate when it heard the bell |
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how is the behaviourism method used |
Teacher gives you a task then tells you if it's right or wrong using a stimulus until it becomes a habit |
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what are the disadvantages of using behaviourism method? |
Not meant for adult learners because it's repetitive so it can be very annoying |
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What age is the direct method for? |
Adults because it requires contextual understanding |
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How is the direct method approach applied? |
Teacher goes straight into conversation using context and only associates the target language with actions |
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what are disadvantages of the direct method |
Very tiring for learners and teachers, time consuming. Students get annoyed if they don't understand, and it cannot be used everyday. |
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Why evaluate a class? |
Students have different proficiency, competence, and capacity |
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what is language proficiency? |
level to understand and produce a language |
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What are the four language skills involved in language proficiency? |
Listening, speaking, reading, writing |
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why do students have different proficiencies? |
They come from different backgrounds, some were exposed to more English |
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what is the importance for evaluating a class? |
Because students always have different proficiencies |
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how is proficiency measured? |
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing |
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Is positive or negative re-enforcement more important? |
Equal some think negative is more because student will know what they did wrong |
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What's the difference between language acquisition and language learning? |
Language learning still uses the grammar rules, acquisition the grammar rules are automatic |
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what are the two important concepts with teaching young learners? |
Scaffolding and the critical period |
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what is scaffolding? |
Establishing a foundation to support students with English language and it's grammar rules |
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how old is the child's critical period and what is it? |
3-10 and they can absorb a lot |
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what areas are needed for our teaching plan? |
Approach, method, and technique |
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what is the approach to teaching? |
Big picture or objective (what I expect them to learn) |
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what is the method to teaching? |
Systematic plan presentation applied (ie use a bag and show students) |
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what is the technique to teaching? |
Activities used to achieve the approach (ie bag, heavy, light) |
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what is the basic rule of the direct method? |
No translation allowed |
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what is the basic rule of the direct method? |
No translation allowed |
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What are the teachers general rules? |
1- Plan language and content 2- Be first and second language proficient |
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What are the general rules students need? |
1- scaffolding 2- talk, read, and write... Not just listen |
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why is explicit introduction essential? |
So students NOTICE the new word is important |
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what is context? |
Understanding the situation |
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what is capacity |
Potential to learn |
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what is competence |
Capability to learn and produce |
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what is naturalization? |
Learning naturally from exposure |
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what is the learning environment? |
Learning out of necessity to fit into it |
