Language Learning and Teaching - CH. 3

The affective filter controls how much ______:

• Language we understand when we hear and read.

• Comprehensible input gets through to the learner.

• ELL’s learn the target language.

• Learners rely on a first-noun strategy to understand “who did what to whom”.

What is defined as “an approach to second language teaching in which content-area subjects and topics are used as the basis of instruction.”?

• Critical Pedagogy

• Natural Approach

• Content-Based Instruction

• Scaffolding

Oral or written language that is slightly above a second language learner's current level of proficiency in the second language and thus provides linguistic input that leads to second language acquisition. Is known as what?

• Comprehensible Input

• Progress

• Sociocultural Perspectives

Scaffolding is the provided support a teacher gives to help the learner....

• Develop new skills

• Learn a new concept

• Both answers apply

Check all that apply: The core communication skills that ELLs can and need to develop within the ZPD are

• Elaborating and Clarifying

• Supporting ideas with evidence

• Building on or challenging ideas

• Paraphrasing

• Synthesizing

The level of language proficiency students need to successfully comprehend and perform grade-level academic tasks. Is known as....

• Communicative Language Teaching

• Dynamic Assessment

• Academic Language Proficiency

• Comprehensible Output

Zone of proximal development (ZDP) is known as a domain or metaphoric space where children can reach a higher level of knowledge and performance with the support of an adult or other knowledgeable person.

• False

• True

Language teaching approaches, methods, strategies, and techniques that focus on helping students develop communicative competence is known as...

• Content based instruction (CBI)

• Scaffolding

• Communicative language teaching (CLT)

• None of the above

Communicative Competence is the ability to use a language to communicate effectively and appropriately with other speakers of the language.

• True

• False

**Not a question, just a statement** The stages of L2 Acquisition are:

• 1. Preproduction

• 2. Early Production

• 3. Speech Emergence

• 4. Intermediate

• 5. Advanced