Promoting Communication

Question 1

Order for Sheltered Instruction (8)

Answer 1

1. Lesson prep
2. Building background knowledge
3. Comprehensible input
4. Strategies
5. Interaction
6. Practice and Application
7. Lesson Delivery
8. Review and Assessment

Question 2

Acquisition Learning Hypothesis

Answer 2

the optimal way a language is learned is through natural communications – making learning authentic.

Question 3

sheltered instruction

Answer 3

teachers integrate language and content instruction in order to make content more comprehensible – CONTENT OBJECTIVE AND LANGUAGE OBJECTIVE

Question 4

Total Response Signals (TRS)

Answer 4

cue students can use to indicate they are ready to respond to questions or ready to move on – thumbs up if you’re ready

Question 5

linguistic domain vs affective domain

Answer 5

language skills vs emotional skills

Question 6

Nativist Theory

Answer 6

language depends on innate biological mechanism called the language aquisition device

Question 7

Concept Attainment Model (Bruner)

Answer 7

an indirect instruction strategy that uses structured inquiry processl students figure out the attributes of a group has already been formed by the teacher

Question 8

Natural Approach (Krashen)

Answer 8

tend to have emphasis on a low-anxiety, natural context for language acquisition with a goal of maximum comprehensible input

Question 9

Language Experience Approach (LEA)

Answer 9

promotes reading and writing through the use of personal experiences and oral language

Question 10

CALPS

Answer 10

Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency Skills are formal, textbook language used in academic situations

Question 11

CALLA Approach

Answer 11

Teachers explicitly teach learning strategies and have students apply them to instructional tasks to increase CALP

Question 12

word analysis

Answer 12

breaking down words into morphemes (the smallest unit of meaning)

Question 13

Morpheme

Answer 13

a combination of sounds that has meaning in speech or writing and cannot be divided into smaller parts – cat, laugh, box

Question 14

DIphthong

Answer 14

one vowel sound made by the combination of two vowel sounds – ou, au

Question 15

Acculturation

Answer 15

when one culture TAKES ON SOME of the cultural traits of another culture

Question 16

Phonemic awareness

Answer 16

the ability to hear, identify, and re-create individual sounds in spoken words

Question 17

phoneme

Answer 17

the smallest individual sounds in a word – bit has 3 phonemes, b, i, t.

Question 18

schema

Answer 18

background knowledge

Question 19

grapheme

Answer 19

a written letter or a combination of letters that represent a single sound. ph makes the sounds f

Question 20

affective filter

Answer 20

emotional influence on learning

Question 21

realia

Answer 21

objects used in everyday life brought into the classroom the enhance instruction

Question 22

consonant digraph

Answer 22

two consonants that make a single consonant sounds when together in a word
s and h = sh

Question 23

Total Physical Response (TPR)

Answer 23

coordination of language and physical movement

Question 24

BICS

Answer 24

Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills are casual, everyday language used in personal conversation