How Adults Learn Language/ Communicative Language Teaching

Students’ errors should be corrected as soon as they are made in order to prevent bad habits.

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• False

Learners learn best by repeating and memorizing a long list of imitated words, phrases, and sentences

• True

• False

When learners are allowed to talk freely with each other in group or pair activities they copy each other’s errors.

• True

• False

Older adults are not as successful at language learning as younger adults.

• True

• False

The greatest challenge for older adult language learners is the doubt - in the minds of learner and teacher.

• True

• False

Fast-paced drills and competitive exercises and activities are effective for all learners.

• True

• False

Teachers must be able to reduce anxiety and build self-confidence in all learners.

• True

• False

Teachers should always teach simple grammar structures before complex ones.

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• False

Rephrasing and recasting are ways to give feedback on students' errors.

• True

• False

Learners need to be prepared for language use outside the classroom by developing strategies for dealing with non-classroom texts that may contain vocabulary or structures that they haven’t studied.

• True

• False