Vocab 6 Flashcards
(12 cards)
Advanced High Rating
colloquial language and doesn’t make any mistakes with her tenses. All of her errors are related to spelling and punctuation, which is common for all students in second grade.
Intermediate
intermediate level of writing proficiency to write loosely connected text, which has an oral tone. Maria makes some errors with comparatives, noun-verb agreement, and adjectives. These errors are all common for intermediate students.
self corrective techniques
minor prompt, like stating, “Excuse me?” or “What was that?” to promote self-correction. This would signal a mistake and allow the student to self-correct. ELLs with an advanced high level of speaking proficiency should be able to self-correct.
Intermediate speaking
an intermediate level of English-language proficiency. She is able to communicate simple messages with basic vocabulary. She makes mistakes with comparatives, articles, and prepositions, which are common mistakes to make at the intermediate level.
Suggestopedia
Suggestopedia is a teaching method based on a modern understanding of how the brain works and how people learn most effectively. It involves a rich sensory learning environment (pictures, colors, music, etc.), a positive expectation of success, and the use of a varied range of methods (dramatic texts, active participation in songs and games, etc.).
Language Experience Approach
The language experience approach promotes reading and writing through the use of personal experiences and oral language. Asking students to speak or write about a first-hand experience is a common activity when using the language experience approach.
Krashen and Terrell’s approach to Language Acquisition
Receptive skills may develop more quickly than productive skills.
Language learning is a reproduction of the way humans naturally acquire their native language.
The natural approach seeks to foster natural language acquisition and therefore does not encourage explicit grammar instruction.
Which of the following is a five-step systematic instructional model to teach English learners how to use learning strategies for both language and content?
The CALLA Approach focuses on learning strategies that can be used to integrate content and language. This integration occurs through a five‐stage cycle involving preparation, presentation, practice, evaluation, and expansion.
SIOP
In the SIOP model, teachers are encouraged to use speech that is appropriate for the students’ language proficiency levels. This might mean making adjustments to the way they speak or the way content is presented, without actually altering the information provided to students.
Recast
A recast is a form of implicit feedback in which the teacher reformulates the student’s error, without directly indicating that the student’s utterance was incorrect.
Transformational Grammar
This definition describes transformational grammar, or an approach that focuses on the role that different transformations play in the construction of a language.
Deep Orthography
Deep orthography describes the fact that the letter-sound correspondence in English is inconsistent. For example, the letter a can make a variety of sounds.
