Lee & VanPatten Ch6

Question 1

What is the major point accepted by all researchers in second language acquisition:
There is no (.) without (.)

Answer 1

acquisition

input

Question 2

How is “input” generally defined?

Answer 2

Communicative or meaning-bearing language that learners hear

Question 3

What then of all our treasured notions of teaching language, especially our insistence that people have to “master the (.)”? One possible conclusion is that our ideas about language teaching, especially the teaching of (.) as a necessary part of language acquisition, may be artifacts of the (.) of institutionalized education

Answer 3

grammar
grammar
culture

Question 4

Belief 1: That’s the Way (..), So

Answer 4

I Learned

Question 5

How is the A-before-B logic applied to belief 1?

Answer 5

As a learner, an instructor assumes that he/she learned a language because he used a set of conventional practices such as grammar explanations, mechanical drills, written exercises, etc.

Question 6

Lee & VanPatten’s conclusion, beyond an A-before-B logic: “Language teach­ers who are advanced speakers of another language acquired their ability (…..) or (….) they received early on.

Answer 6

in spite of the instructions

independently of the instruction

Question 7

Belief 2: (.) Are Effective Tools for

Learning Grammar

Answer 7

Drills

Question 8

Textbooks tend to follow a particular sequencing of practice types after a grammar point is explained. That sequence is the following:

Answer 8

Mechanical drills - Meaningful drills - Communicative drills

Question 9

Are mechanical drills effective for SLA?

Answer 9

No

Question 10

In one important study, (author, year) demonstrated that not only was (..) ineffective, it actually delayed the acquisition of the structures and forms that were (.)

Answer 10

Lightbown (1983)
intensive drilling
drilled

Question 11

Doughty & Williams, (1998), “have proposed that, whatever the pedagogical decision at hand, the primary concern of the teacher should always be the question of how to integrate attention to (.) and (.), either simultaneously or in some interconnected sequence of tasks and techniques that are implemented throughout the curriculum.

Answer 11

form

meaning

Question 12

Belief 3: Explicit (.) Is Necessary

Answer 12

Explanation

Question 13

Belief 4: The (..) Is the Source of All Errors

Answer 13

First Language

Question 14

Belief 5: Acquisition Involves the Learning of (.)

Answer 14

Paradigms

Question 15

A paradigm, then, is actually a (.) for a particular set of connections; paradigms have no (..) for acquisition.

Answer 15

shorthand

psycholinguistic validity

Question 16

If paradigms have no psycholinguistic validity, what is their use then?

Answer 16

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