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| Transformational-generative grammar |
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| a common set of rules that generates diverse languages people speak |
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| Canale and Swain - 4 competencies |
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Grammatical
Strategic
Sociolinguistic
Discourse |
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| Four skills of Proficiency Guidelines |
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Context/Content
Text/Type
Global Tasks and Functions
Accuracy |
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| Four areas where you measure performance |
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Reading
Writing
Speaking
Listening |
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| Able to narrate and describe in major timeframes and deal with unanticipated complication |
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| Learning is a process of habit formation - understanding in unimportant |
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| Learning must be meaningful in order to be permanent |
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Acquisition
Natural Order
Input (i + 1)
Monitor
Affective Filter |
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| Grammar translation results in... |
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| Lack of oral fluency, but knowing both native and L2's grammars well |
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| reading vocab words first, need to know every single word |
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| reading headlines and titles first, scanning |
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| Schema and Slots - our background knowledge plays a critical role in acquiring a new language |
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Culture
Communication
Community
Connections
Comparisons |
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| my subjects are becoming more and more cooperative |
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| Attitude changes to override testing conditions |
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| Title VI programs are to... |
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| strengthen international studies and foreign language teaching |
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| Culture - defined by brooks |
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| Culture is everything in human life and the best of everything in human life |
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| Culture - defined by Seelye |
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| "a broad concept that embraces all aspects of human life, from folktales to carved whales. |
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| (x-mean)/standard deviation |
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| Standard Deviation - Empirical |
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| Common Approach to Teaching Culture |
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Frankenstein
4-F Approach
Tour Guide Approach
By-the-way Approach |
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| a taco from here, a gaucho from there,... |
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| folk dances, festivals, fairs, and food |
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| Identification of monuments, rivers, and cities |
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| sporadic lectures or bits of behavior selected indiscriminantly to emphasize sharp differences |
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| Limited in Scope - just a regular test |
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| Proficiency Test - test on everything |
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| the least number of items you need to know to find the critical value |
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| Alpha decision level aka significance level |
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to determine the validity of results, one needs to set a level of error (chance)
alpha |
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| conversations, express feelings, and emotions, exchange opinions, give and take info |
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| know relationship between the practices and products and perspectives of the culture studied |
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| Connect with other disciplines and acquire info |
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| Develop insight into the nature of language and culture |
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| Students use language in and out of school |
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| Novice - Global Tasks and Functions |
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| Communicate minimally with formulaic and rote utterances, lists, and phrases |
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Most common informal settings
Most common aspects of daily life |
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| May be difficult to understand, even for speakers accustomed to dealing with nonnative speakers |
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| Individual words and phrases |
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| Intermediate - Global Tasks and Functions |
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| Create with language, initiate, maintain, and bring to a close simple conversations by asking/responding to simple questions |
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| Intermediate - Context/Content |
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Some informal settings and a limited number of transactional situations
Predictable, familiar topics, related to daily activities |
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| Understood with some repetition by speakers accustomed to dealing with nonnative speakers |
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| Advanced - Global Tasks and Functions |
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| Narrate and describe in major time frames and deal effectively with an unanticipated complications |
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| Advanced - Context/Content |
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Most informal and some formal settings
Topics of personal and general interest |
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| Understood without difficulty by speakers unaccustomed to dealing with nonnative speakers |
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| Superior - Glabal Tasks and Functions |
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| Discuss topics extensively, support opinions, and hypothesize. Deal with a linguistically unfamiliar situation |
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| Superiour - Context/Content |
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Most formal/informal settings
Wide range of general topics and some special fields of interest and expertise |
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No pattern of errors in basic structures
Errors virtually never interfere with communications or distract the native speaker from the message |
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