Didactics

Usage is ...

• the process of using something.

• the use of something, the way in which it is used, or how much it has been used.

• the ways people speak.

• the knowledge of the language system that a person has.

Competence is...

• the power of a person, business, court, or government to deal with something or take legal decisions.

• A cluster of related abilities, commitments, knowledge, and skills that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

• ability in a specific field or subject, or being able to do something well or to being sane enough to stand trial in court.

• the implicit system of rules that constitutes a person’s knowledge of a language.

What´s the mistake in the following sentence: She arrived to the school late.?

• word missing

• wrong vocabulary

• wrong preposition

• wrong word order

Slips are the result of ...

• tiredness , worry or other temporary emotions

• sliding, or dropping, out of the right position or out of control

• dropping in standard

• moving quietly especially without being noticed

Fossilised errors are...

• errors which a learner continues making and which are difficult to change.

• errors which a learner makes due to his / her lack of knowledge.

• errors which a learner learns in the development of the class.

• old-fashioned errors which learners acquire in his/her daily interaction.

Interlanguage is ...

• a language that is the product of studying autonomously.

• a language that is used by learners to communicate in any language.

• the current version of the language that a person is learning.

• the language that is learned in a foreign context.

Performance is...

• how well an activity is done.

• an occasion when an event happens again.

• the actual use of the language by a person in speech and writing.

• the action of entertaining other people by dancing, singing, etc.

One of the following is not an internal cause of interlanguage fossilization:

• learners´ physical health.

• learners´ age.

• interference from learners´ mother tongue.

• learners´ emotions.

One way of avoiding fossilization is by...

• formulating appropriate teaching strategies.

• developing tools to get rid of fossils.

• increasing exposure to the L2 language.

• improving teachers´ quality.

Which of the following are overgeneralizations?

• I eated a lot yesterday.

• She´s wearing a jacket green.

• This is a piture of my mother.

• My foots are swollen.