Language Learning Terms Defined
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Reading Circle
When a teacher reads to young learners and they sit in a circle to listen.
Reading for Gist
When we read to get the general ideas.
Reading for Specific Information
When we read to understand only the particular details which interest us.
Recorded Audio
Any listening text which is played through a machine.
Reformulation
When students say something which has a mistake, and we say it again correctly, but don't ask the students to repeat it.
Research
Looking for information; trying to discover new things.
Retrieval and Use
Students have to find the language they have learned and then use it.
Roleplay
We get students to imagine they are in particular situations and we give them different roles to play.
Scanning
When we quickly read or listen for specific information.
Sentence Reordering
Students have to put words in correct sequences to make sentences of their own.
Sentence Transformation
When we ask students to make a new sentence using a word or words we give them so that the new sentence means exactly the same as the old one.
Silent Way
The teacher says as little as possible and students rely on each other.
Simulations
When we ask students to imagine that they are in different real-life situations – sometimes playing a role.
Skimming
When we look quickly through a text for gist rather than reading it for detail.
Stimulus-Response-Reinforcement
The stages which are used to condition people so that they always behave in the same way.
Story Reconstruction
Different students are given different parts of a story, often shown in pictures, and they have to work out what the story is by talking to each other.
Top-Down Processing
Trying to understand the general meaning of a text before looking at the details of language.
Total Physical Response (TPR)
Methodology where students learn by performing actions.
Transfer Information
Take information from a text and put it in a diagram or some other form.
True/False
When students are asked to say whether something is true or false.
Wiki
Computer program which allows everyone to add to and change the content.