Teaching Approaches with Technology #2

Information-gap exercises, asking classmates about their opinions, negotiating meaning, and similar types of meaning-focused exercises are examples of learning activities in ...

• The Audiolingual Method.

• Total Physical Response (TPR).

• Grammar Translation Method.

• Communicative Language Teaching.

Three of the following are the highest levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy (of levels of thinking). Which one is NOT one of the three highest levels?

• Create

• Revise

• Evaluate

• Analyze

Three of the following are the lowest levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy (of levels of thinking). Which one is NOT one of the three highest levels?

• Apply

• Understand

• Remember

• Topic-Changing

What was the Clark vs. Kozma debate in the 1980s and 1990s about?

• Students' use of the first language in second/foreign language

• Focusing on vocabulary instead of grammar.

• Whether Sociocultural Theory or Cognitive Theory is better in language education

• The effect of media in learning activities.

Answer explanation

The Lexical Approach focused on vocabulary (including collocations) instead of grammar in language learning.

In one approach to education, students learn course material at home before class and then apply that learning in the classroom. What is this approach called?

• Total Physical Response

• Flipped Learning

• The Audiolingual Method

• The Silent Approach

Which of the following approaches does NOT emphasize teaching both content and language together?

• CBI

• CLIL

• CALLA

• Immersion

• The Audiolingual Method

Answer explanation

The other four approaches all emphasize teaching content material (Science, History, Math, etc.) in the target language. The Audiolingual Method focuses on forming habits of producing grammatically accurate sentences.

True or False. Genre approaches to writing, such as the Teaching Learning Cycle, focus students' attention on model texts, and then have the students write similar types of texts.

• True

• Falso

Answer explanation

While the process is important, the Teaching Learning Cycle also focuses on different types of genres, along with the features of those genres. Students analyze model texts, and then write the same types of genres.

Supporters of the "Multilingual Turn" in second/foreign langauge education, might argue that we should describe students as (A) instead of (B). Please choose the most likely one.

• (A) English language learners (B) emergent bilinguals

• (A) emergent multilingual learners (B) English language learners

• (A) non-native speakers (B) emergent bilinguals.

Krashen had a big influence on language teaching. In his theory he talked about "i+1". What does that refer to?

• Influence of the native language

• Comprehensible Input

• The Interaction Hypothesis

• Interlang

Answer explanation

Krashen stressed that comprehensible input (i+1) was necessary for students to acquire language. Later, other authors stressed the need for (comprehensible) output and interaction.

(Educational) games are steadily becoming more popular in language education. What is the term that refers to employing game ideas or concepts in activities that are not strictly games? (Examples include making activities competitive, providing rewards such as badges, etc.)

Answer explanation

Gamification refers to using ideas from games (competition, reward, etc.) in activities that are not strictly games.