Test 3 - LAMP reading Flashcards
Learning priorities
Pronunciation
Grammatical structure
Vocabulary and culture
Learning vocabulary
Associate a word with its meaning, not the corresponding English word
How much time should you spend actually communicating?
1/3 or more
Learning a language with a partner
Mutually encourage each other, don’t compete
Using a grammar book
Don’t rely on it: try to discover things for yourself
Informal practice
Make games of language learning, especially when talking to children
Language schools
Provides external discipline
Likely not enough practice time provided
Living in the home of a local family
Good - maximizes involvement in speaking the language
Techniques for cultural exploration
Make observations
Make assumptions about your observations
Attempt to validate your assumptions
Classify and apply your new information
Structure substitution drill
Use words that are compatible with each other
Structure differential drill
Practice patterns that you tend to confuse
While drilling…
Always be thinking of meaning
Refuse to think in English
Drills: boredom
You may not be challenging yourself enough
Use more new vocabulary or speed up the pace
Drills: frustration
You may be tackling more than you’re ready for
Listen or mimic more before going to production, or switch to focusing on one thing at a time
Practicing difficult structures
Don’t just practice it once - build two or three drills on it using different vocabulary
Ways to multiply simple sentence patterns
Negation
Question
Emphasis
Instructions
Gaining flexibility with simple sentence patterns
Replace (words with different grammatical form)
Expand (add modifiers or other words)
Delete (appropriate parts)
Rearrange (to form another sentence with the same meaning)
Combining clauses
Linking (different actors and different events)
Dependent combinations (time relationship, cause and effect, etc.)
Including quotes (“direct” and/or indirect)
Learning the meaning of function words
Watch how they are used and practice sentence patterns in which they occur
Inclusive pronouns
Includes the person spoken to (we and you)
Exclusive pronouns
Excludes the person spoken to (we but not you)
