Praxis 5362 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Stages of First-Language Acquisition babbling stage: 6-8 months old, begins making repetitive patters of sound one-word stage: 9-18 months; begins to make basic words stems and single open-class words two-word stage; 18-24 months; beings making miniature sentences with simple semantic relations telegraphic stage: 24-30 months; begins to express sentence structures with lexical rather than functional or grammatical morphemes multiword stage: 30+ months; the characteristic grammatical...

Audiolingual Method - Answer "army method," drilling correct forms, grammar taught inductively, lots of speaking Total Physical Response Approach - Answer learning through commands and questions, students not made to speak until they are ready Grammar Translation Approach - Answer oldest method, taught almost exclusively in L1, explanation of grammar, lots of vocabulary Direct Method - Answer begin with dialogue then translate then question, grammar taught inductively, imitate...

Accuracy the correct decoding and recognition of words Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis Acquisition is the unconscious process of making meaning of language through repeated exposure. Learning is the conscious process developing skills through formal instruction in grammar and syntax. Advanced Fluency Achieved cognitive language proficiency in target language Affective Filter Hypothesis a number of emotional factors contribute to the acquisition of a second language: self-confidence exer...

Inter-language Strategy used by second language learner to compensate for lack of proficiency. the learners' language system is neither that of his mother tongue nor that of the second language, but contains elements of both. errors need to be seen as evidence of the learner's developing system. Overgeneralization Inter language strategy- attempts to apply a rule across the board w/o regard for exceptions. Bended vs bent. Simplification L2 learner uses resources that require l...

Diglossia A situation where a language that has two forms, one a 'higher' and more prestigious form used by educated speakers in formal situations, and the other a 'lower', vernacular form used more commonly. BICS Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills CALP Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency Elaborate Language Code Explicit speech with minimal expressive language. Used with strangers/acquaintances. (Basil Bernstein's Theory of Language Codes) Restricted Language Code Spee...

cultural norms set of behaviors and beliefs shared by people cultural competence behaviors, attitudes that allow people to work effectively and appropriately low-context culture communicate information in direct, explicit, and precise ways high-context culture communicate in ways that are implicit and rely heavily on nonverbal language paralanguage vocal but nonverbal elements of speech culturally relevant teaching pedagogy that makes modifications in instructional strategies to a...

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Direct (or natural) methodSecond languages should be acquired in the same way as first languages. Oral language (input not just output) is emphasized. No focus on grammar structure InductionLearn grammar through imitation and trial/error Grammar-translation methodIntended for foreign language literature. No emphasis on speaking/listening Audio-lingual method (ALM)Oral-based approach that uses repetitive exercises to teach grammatical structural patterns, vocab, key phrases and dialogue....

phonology Study of a sound system of language Generation 1.5 kids born elsewhere but heavily socialized in the us Plyler v Doe states can't deny education for illegal immigrants amendment 14 ELL English Language Learner CALP (Cognitive academic language proficiency) the language ability needed for learning academic skills Inflectional adds es, s, ed, ing, er does not change the meaning of the word Idiom an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the w...

English Phonemes 26 letters/ 44 phonemes BF Skinner Behaviorist Theory of Language Learning. Children enter the world as a blank slate and are influenced by the environment. "ope rant conditioning" Schema The framework around information that is stored in the brain. Code switching mixing of words in L1 and L2 Inter-language Strategy used by second language learner to compensate for lack of proficiency Overgeneralization Inter language strategy- attempts...