WorksheetsA New Syllabus in EFL
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
Describes how we combine, organize and change words and parts of words to make meaning. Uses rules and includes the following concepts: Parts of speech, structures, and word formation.
Grammar
Lexis
Syllabus
Speaking
A reason why we communicate. Every time we speak or write, such as apologizing, advising, inviting, greeting, etc. we use exponents to express them.
Speaking
Language Function
Project-Based Learning
Competence
Individual words or sets of words, i.e. vocabulary items, that have a specific meaning: Tree, get up, first of all...
Idioms
Lexis
Productive skills
Word family
In which skills do we check fluency and accuracy?
Reading
Writing
Listening
Speaking
Mention a synonym for syllabus
(a)
A language that is used as a means of communication for many people for many people whose first language is not that one, such as Latin, centuries ago.
(a)
Being able to communicate multimodally (text, emojis, memes, audio) and collaborate efficiently in new media such as IM, blogs, social networks, etc.
Milennialism.
New Literacies
Digital footprint
ICT integration
"I began learning English when I was 9 years old, in school here in Guatemala. It is my third language, as my mother speaks German and my father, both German and Spanish. English was always difficult for me because I hated boring drills and worksheets, but being trilingual has brought me many benefits for studying abroad." This is an example of...
Teaching philosophy
Approach to language
Linguistic identity
Lexis
This refers to our view of language and how language learning takes place.
Approach
Method
In this approach, language is a set of structures used to communicate meaning that can be learned through controlled practice of simple structures.
Structural Approach
Direct Approach
Communicative approach
Content-Based Instruction
In this approach, language is seen as grammatical structures and vocabulary items that can be learned through the "skillful use of the imperative by the instructor."
Suggestopedia
The Silent way
Total Physical Response
Functional-Notional Approach
When talking about methodologies, what to the 3 Ps in PPP stand for?
Preparation, Planning, Publication
Product, Price, Place, Promotion
Program Process Pedagogy
Presentation, Practice, Production
What is the "current, most widely-used methodology in EFL" even though it is about 60 years old?
Grammar Translation
Communicative Language Teaching
The Reading Approach
Audiolingual Approach
For this type of syllabus, different parts of language are taught separately and step by step, accumulating until the whole structure of the language has been built up. (The student is a learner)
Synthetic Syllabus
Analytic Syllabus
For this type of syllabus, the language and content are selected according to learners' real-world communicative needs, and defined in terms of situations, topics, and other academic or school subjects. (The student is an acquirer)
Synthetic Syllabus
Analytical Syllabus
According to the Common European Framework of Reference what level is an Intermediate student?
A2
B1
C1
E6
According to the new CNB for "Básicos," which are the components for the English Area?
-Learning to listen
-Speaking and interacting with others
-Understanding what is read
-Written expression
-Oral comprehension and expression
-Written comprehension and expression
-Vocabulary Development
-Culture and Society
The teacher needs to communicate these about language and teaching in order to design the syllabus. This may determine other important factors, from which goals to select, what needs and content to focus on, and how the syllabus will be organized.
Principles or beliefs
Syllabus types
Language curriculum designs
Competencies
Which of these would you evaluate with a rubric?
Multiple choice test
Presentation / Show and tell
Essay
Sentence completions or "gap fill" exercises
What is a difference beween a syllabus and a curriculum?
One is for a course and the other for an educational system
One is descriptive, the other presecriptive (unalterable)
One varies from teacher to teacher, the other is the same for all teachers
One is changed every year, sometimes during the year, the other is usually fixed for a longer period of time
