Module 1 The Roles Of The Teacher And Learner And Language Teaching methodology

Question 1

List objectives of Module 1

Answer 1

analyze the personal characteristics and habits of successful teachers in learners

Identify the characteristics of effective classroom instructions and strategies for checking instructions

Categorize the roles played by teachers in a language classroom, such as organizer and facilitator

Establish some preliminary recommendations for effective teaching strategies

Categorize, historic and current language, instructional methodologies, such as communicative language, teaching, audio lingual method, and the direct method 

Question 2

List the teaching roles within the classroom

Answer 2

 The explainer lecture role

The counselor facilitator role

The organizer role

The planner role-the prepared teacher

Role model

Assessor role

Question 3

Define explainer/lecturer role

Question 4

Define: the explainer/lecturer role

Answer 4

The traditional model of teaching, where the teacher explained the grammar and structure of language, with little chance for students to practice.

Question 5

Define: the counselor/facilitator role

Answer 5

In the counselor/facilitator role, the teacher encourages the learner to be independent and practice self learning. Examples: how do use self access centers, media labs.

They teach students that learning never stops.

Question 6

Why is the counselor facilitator role vital?

Answer 6

Individual students have their own individual needs and unique problems in learning. The teacher reviews what is effective for the learner, and enables each one to take initiative in his own learning, and fill in the gaps that can exist in what students are taught in the classroom.

Question 7

List 4 tips for effective teaching

Answer 7

Questions! Do not ask questions, unless you have taught the students how to answer them.

Vocabulary! Never teach new vocabulary of drastically different difficulty levels , or present too much vocabulary at one time

Circle back. Never abandon the topic when students do not understand it . Come back to it, review it and incorporate it into other lessons until students do understand.

Interconnected. Let the students know that lessons are connected, that they are not randomly, jumping from point to point

Question 8

List tips for effective teaching (short answer).

Answer 8

Be thorough
Be prepared
Be enthusiastic about your students work

Learn to anticipate
Praise, but don’t patronize

Stress continuity
Use visual aids
Check comprehension
Keep it interesting

Question 9

What is TTT?

Answer 9

Teacher talk time it should not dominate find ways to facilitate students practice, speaking while you monitor guide and clarify

Question 10

What is echoing?

Answer 10

When your students answer a question, and you repeat the response, don’t do that

Question 11

Should you help students by completing their sentences?

Answer 11

No be patient and allow students enough time to think and respond.

Question 12

What is one pitfall to avoid in order to best manage the classroom?

Answer 12

Avoid being insufficiently authoritative, or overly polite

Question 13

List nine teaching pitfalls to avoid. short answers only

Answer 13

COMPLICATED or unclear INSTRUCTIONS

Lack of CONFIDENCE

Over helping

Working with best students, and not involving reluctant students

Not listening to your students

Failure to check comprehension of instructions

Fear of genuine

Running commentary

Weak rapport

Question 14

List the qualities of a good learner

Answer 14

Accepts correction from others to benefit the learning process

tries different learning strategies

ask questions

study habits

self learning

experiments and takes risks

listening skills

Question 15

Define a visual learner

Answer 15

Visual learners tend to think in pictures

Question 16

Define auditory learners

Answer 16

Auditory learners, often learn best through, listening to discussions and lectures

Question 17

Kinesthetic learners

Answer 17

Kinesthetic learners usually find the active experiences booster comprehension

Question 18

How should one think about the relationship between the teacher and the learner?

Answer 18

The role between the teacher and the learner is not a segregated role. It is best understood as a symbiotic relationship that is continuously changing and growing through their interaction as a teacher and learner.

Question 19

List, the eight teaching methodologies discussed in module 1.4.

Answer 19

Grammar Translation

Direct method

Audio lingual method

Communicative language teaching CLT

Total physical response TPR

The silent Way

Suggestopedia

An eclectic approach

Question 20

Define grammar translation, teaching method

Answer 20

This is a traditional method that is teacher centered. It explains most of the lesson in the students native language students may only do some exercises in the target language and much time is spent on translating passages. Back-and-forth little attention is given to speaking and listening, and almost none to pronunciation. Students usually cannot produce spoken language on their own.

Question 21

Define direct method of teaching

Answer 21

This method permitted new translation in class and all teaching is done in the target language there’s a D emphasis of grammar in the second language classroom, and instead the emphasis on speaking, this is a student centered class in theory the student is to learn as naturally as a child, would it is sometimes called the natural approach. Learning a language is equated with habit formation teachers correct mistakes as they occur with praise used to reinforce correct usage of the language.

Question 22

Define audio lingual method

Answer 22

This method was designed in response to research done by behaviorist during World War II and it was popular through the 1970s. It emphasize the primacy of oral drill work to make students‘s responses to teachers questions and drills automatic praise was given for correct responses and punishment or negative comments, given for incorrect responses until the student could produce the correct form.

Question 23

Define communicative language, teaching, or CLT

Answer 23

This is the most popular approach today. It emphasizes the language learners ability to communicate in real social context to just making request excepting offers explaining things, expressing, preferences, etc.. This approach stresses learning language through real world task, assignments, and problem-solving at times let it is less concerned with accuracy than fluency, it does not stress, teaching grammar, and isolation but it does de emphasize painstaking error correction.

Question 24

Define total physical response or TPR

Answer 24

This is a teaching methodology that is a humanistic approach to second language acquisition in this approach students respond to instructions, and then later tell stories with appropriate physical responses, such as miming the meaning of the language by acting out language, it is thought that students interpret meaning through physical response, rather than intellectual analysis it is recommended that TPR be used in conjunction with other approaches since it is considered inadequate alone, but it does appeal to beginners

Question 25

What is the silent Way?

Answer 25

I humanistic approach to second language acquisition that takes into consideration students feelings, as well as their reasoning to learn language. This focuses this on the students doing the majority of the speaking, while the teacher remains silent the teacher uses mime gesture and manipulatives to to communicate with his students. One advantage is that this reduces teacher talk time.

Question 26

What is the suggestopedia language learning method?

Answer 26

This is a humanistic approach that emphasizes the learning environment music, yoga, and meditation are used to aid, relaxation of students proponents claim that when students are in a relaxed state is allows them to come as open to suggestion as children are in a new language, aiding rapid learning

Question 27

Define eclectic approach to teaching methodologies

Answer 27

This is the way most teachers teach they may select different teaching methods according to the different outcomes to be achieved.

Question 28

List the goals of module, one, covering the rolls and characteristics of successful teachers and learners and current instructional methodologies

Answer 28

Analyzing the personal characteristics of habit of successful teachers and learners

Categorizing the roles played by teachers in the language classroom, such as organizer and facilitator

Establishing some preliminary recommendations for effective teaching strategies

Categorizing, historic and current language, instructional methodologies, such as CLT, the audio lingual method, and the direct method

Question 29

List the objectives for module, two classroom management

Answer 29

Describe possible adaptations of the classroom environment to suit learning activities

Identify the characteristics of effective classroom instruction and strategies for checking for instructions

Summarize the benefits of listing information from students rather than encouraging them to receive information passively

Give examples of strategies for affectively promoting students and or listing information from them

Analyze and categorize errors, and explain their usefulness and learning and teaching

Indicate some of the advantages and disadvantages of using textbooks

Describe some specific techniques to manage classrooms as effective workplaces for students and teachers