Curricular Models Flashcards
What type of program is this?
Schooling is conducted through the medium of a new language
No less than 50% of the school day (of the school cirriculum
One Way:
All students are learners of the new language
Two Way:
Two groups of students, 1/2 are native speakers of each language
Immersion Program
What type of program is this?
Schooling conducted in two languages
New language is no less than 50% of the instructional day
Bilingual program
How long does it take to learn Spanish (Intermediate) according to the
DLI (Defense Language Institute)
Spanish = 400 hours (8 weeks)
FYI:
Secondary School
150 contact hours (180 days x 50 mins)= 150 hours
Reality: 150 days x 50 minutes = 125 hours
Elementary Pullout
60 mins per week x 40 weeks = 40 hours
150 mins per week x 40 weeks =100 hours
50-50 Immersion
12.5 hours per week x 40 weeks = 500 hours
According to ACTFL how much of class time should be in the target language?
95%
What does DLI represent?
Dual language immersion
According to Mimi Met, what are the five characteristics of productive communication in a FL classroom?
Communication needs to be meaningful, purposeful, frequent, authentic and unrehearsed.
What is Content Based Instruction (CBI) ?
It is the integration of language teaching aims with subject matter instruction
Who is the author of the Comprehensible Input Hypothesis?
Krashen
Who is the author of the Comprehensible Output Hypothesis?
Swain
Who is the author of the Zone of Proximal Development?
Vygotsky
What is FLES (Foriegn Language in the Elementary School)?
Consists of a traveling language teacher who teaches 20-30 mins at a time several times per week.
“Content-enriched” FLES is better: curriculum is supported by FLES teacher
What is the Theme-Based Model?
Selected topics or themes provide the content of the language learning
What is the Sheltered Model?
Deliberate separation of second/foreign language students from native speakers of the target language for the purpose of content instruction.
What is the Adjunct Model?
Content-based approach in which students are concurrently enrolled in a language class and a content course. Exists a coordination between language and content instructors.
What are some strategies for successful Content-Based Instruction?
"unpacking" the content, ie. scaffolding modifying input using contextual cues checking for understanding designing appropriate lessons using learner grouping strategies
What is the difference between a goal and an objective?
Goals: broad, general purposes for learning a language
Objectives: more specific than goals, 1+ objectives for each goal, Task or performance elemen-what the learner is to do
What are language functions?
Communicative purposes that are achieved through language (apologizing, advising, etc.)
What is the difference between a target task and a pedagogical task?
target task: something the learner might conceivably do outside of the classroom
pedagogical tasks: unlikely to be used outside of the classroom. created in order to push learners to communicate in the classroom, helping the acquisition process
What are the goals of immersion programs?
Goals:
functional proficiency in L2
mastery of subject content of district curriculum
cross-cultural understanding
Comparable achievement in English language arts curriculum
What are the goals of FLES programs?
functional proficiency in L2 (not as high of proficiency as immersion programs)
Listening and speaking tend to be more emphasized
What is FLEX (Foreign Language Exploratory or Experience)?
sampler programs: students don’t attain any degree of proficiency
self-contained, short-term (3 weeks-1 year)
frequently at middle school/junior high
introduces language primarily through high-quality language learning experience, or is a course about language taught in English
What are the goals of a FLEX program?
Goals
introduction to language learning
awareness and appreciation of foreign culture
appreciation of the value of communicating in another language
enhanced understanding of English
motivation for further language study
Mimi’s list of what impacts language learning
Time Comprehensible Input Output/Interaction Intensity (attention and engagement) Culture
What are two examples of teacher controlled output?
Rote/Mechanical: looking for a word for word response. Teacher is controlling what the student says so they can get it right.
Contextualized Rote: same as above but framed in a more meaningful context
What are two examples of student controlled output?
Meaningful structured: You may give them a prompt, but the student has to come up with their own idea.
Meaningful open-ended
What are the following types of feedback?
Explicit correction Recast Clarification Request Metalinguistic Elicitation Repetition
Explicit correction: Correcting the student
Recast: repeating what the student says minus the error
Clarification Request: Asking a question to clarify what the student says.
Metalinguistic: “The verb isn’t conjugated correctly, can you correct it?”
Elicitation: fill-in-the-blank, “Tengo tres libro -} “Tienes tres______?”, or How do you say that? or Will you say that again?
Repetition: Teacher repeats the error with a question mark?
