Learning Strategies and Motivation in Education
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What does the FLT Methodology primarily address?

  • The use of technology in language teaching
  • Language acquisition processes in children
  • Assessment methods in language education
  • The aims, content, means, and principles of FLT (correct)
  • Which activity is most appropriate for introducing words denoting parts of the body to children?

  • Describing the picture of a boy or a girl (correct)
  • Reading a story that includes body parts
  • Playing a song about body parts
  • Conducting a quiz on human anatomy
  • What does the PPP in FLT Methodology stand for?

  • Perception, Practice, Presentation
  • Presentation, Production, Practice (correct)
  • Planning, Progress, Participation
  • Preparation, Practice, Perform
  • In Communicative Language Teaching, what is primarily recognized as the goal?

    <p>Communication</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following does NOT belong to language skills?

    <p>Testing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which strategy involves students testing themselves on recently taught words to aid retention?

    <p>Memorizing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What classroom activity helps to clarify the learning objectives for students?

    <p>Writing aims on the board</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which action by the teacher is aimed at building learners' confidence?

    <p>Giving only positive feedback</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of students exchanging information to complete a text?

    <p>To give a reason for communication</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When a teacher discovers learners' preferences for correction, what strategy is she employing?

    <p>Asking about correction preferences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which activity encourages learner autonomy by showing how to utilize resources?

    <p>Self-assessment center usage</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the technique known as when a teacher asks students to repeat sentences?

    <p>Drilling</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which motivational type involves viewing the target language as a means to achieve professional advancement?

    <p>External motivation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which teaching approach involves following a series of physical instructions?

    <p>Total Physical Response</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of skills are considered productive skills?

    <p>Speaking and writing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of authentic material used in language learning?

    <p>An article from a magazine</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens when learners are demotivated?

    <p>They have lost interest in learning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'learning style' refer to?

    <p>An individual's preferred way to absorb information</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are cognitive processes?

    <p>Mental activities involved in thinking</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do teachers provide to help develop learners' language skills?

    <p>Guidance in reading, writing, listening, and speaking</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the process of analyzing and understanding information entail?

    <p>Processing information</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What guided writing activities would Ahmed benefit from to improve his writing skills?

    <p>Structured writing exercises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In the sentence 'You should arrive early if you want to make a good impression', what does the word 'should' indicate?

    <p>Advice</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does FLT Methodology primarily study?

    <p>Patterns of communicative and cognitive activity of students</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the principle of accessibility in teaching refer to?

    <p>The correspondence of material to learners' age and level of FL acquisition</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which document outlines the aims and content of teaching a foreign language?

    <p>Syllabus</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What method of research is NOT considered a theoretical level method?

    <p>Field studies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does intercultural communicative competence (ICC) refer to?

    <p>The ability to communicate effectively at an intercultural level</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of teaching aids in foreign language teaching?

    <p>To provide linguistic material for teaching</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What teaching method utilizes a variety of materials in the target language?

    <p>Diverse material pedagogy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which principle emphasizes the involvement of learners for maximum retention?

    <p>Principle of activity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What aims in foreign language teaching focuses on cultural and historical context?

    <p>Educational aims</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which approach places the learner at the center of the teaching process?

    <p>Pupil-centered approach</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is referred to as the component of communicative competence that includes grammar and vocabulary?

    <p>Language competence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which component of foreign language teaching supports oral and written communication?

    <p>Psychological components</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term describes a classroom specifically designed for language learning activities?

    <p>Language laboratory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of exercises are beneficial for developing pronunciation skills?

    <p>Recognition and reproduction exercises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Learning Strategies

    • Students can use timelines to illustrate meaning in grammar notebooks.
    • Students can test themselves on recently taught vocabulary to help with memorizing.

    Motivation

    • Teachers can make the learning aims clear to learners by writing them on the board at the start of class.
    • Positive feedback can build learner confidence in their abilities.
    • Giving learners a reason to communicate with one another can motivate them.
    • Teachers should ask their learners about their preferences for correction.
    • Teachers can encourage learner autonomy by showing them how to use the self-assess center.

    Introductory Activities

    • Drilling is useful when teachers ask students to repeat sentences after them.
    • A warmer is a short game that energizes students.
    • Miming is a useful strategy to show the meaning of a new word.

    Activities

    • A visualization strategy involves learners imagining pictures in their minds.
    • Learners complete a survey by providing feedback and answers to the questions.
    • External motivation is present when learners view the target language as a tool for getting a better job, career, or status.

    Feedback and FLT Methodology

    • FLT methodology deals with the aims, content, means, and principles of FLT.

    Teaching Methods & Skills

    • Special methods are used to teach particular languages.
    • The communicative approach is characterized by teaching and learning languages that prioritize communication.
    • Teaching content refers to the material used in class or to construct a lesson plan.
    • Testing is not considered a language skill.
    • Writing and speaking are productive skills.
    • Discussing the topic of a text is a communicative exercise.
    • A procedure is an ordered sequence of techniques in a lesson.
    • A warmer is a short activity at the beginning of a lesson to energize students.
    • Methods of Teaching refers to a way of teaching.
    • An automised is a habit in FLT.
    • Life situation relates to realistic material.
    • Communicative Language Teaching is based on communicative competence.
    • Project work involves students working together in groups inside or outside of the classroom to develop something such as a class magazine.
    • PPP in FLT methodology stands for Presentation, Production, and Practice.
    • Students perceive the material at the presentation stage.
    • The principle of activity in FLT implies that the student is the active participant in the process of instruction.
    • N. Palmer was the founder of the Direct Method.
    • The Direct Method refrains from using the learner's native language.

    Teaching Children

    • Describing a picture of a boy or a girl while introducing words for body parts is a suitable activity for children.

    Teaching Approaches

    • Test-teach-test is a technique which involves explaining grammar after recognizing a difficulty, followed by practicing in pairs.
    • Total Physical Response involves giving a series of instructions such as "stand up and turn around" which students follow, then students repeat the instructions to the teacher.
    • Guided Discovery is used when a new structure is introduced by showing pictures while saying sentences containing the structure. Students complete sentence prompts in pairs, then talk about similar pictures in groups.
    • The Lexical Approach is used by providing an authentic text such as a magazine article about unusual sports. Students find collocations, analyze the text, and practice using the new language orally and in writing.

    Other

    • Productive skills include speaking and writing.
    • An example of authentic material is an article from a magazine.
    • Teachers develop language skills by guiding learners in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
    • Processing information means analyzing and understanding it.
    • Learners are demotivated when they have lost interest in learning.
    • Learner goals are things learners want to achieve.
    • Teachers assess learners’ needs by finding out what learners still need to learn to reach their objectives.
    • Unmotivated learners have no particular desire to learn.
    • Learning style refers to an individual's preferred way to absorb, process, comprehend, and retain information.
    • Cognitive processes are mental activities involved in thinking.
    • Students can highlight pronunciation features by making a note of the stress when putting words into their vocabulary notebook.
    • Students can look up grammar in a book to choose the best option when they're unsure about what form to use.
    • Guided writing activities are needed for students who rarely use paragraphs or punctuation in their writing.
    • The word "should" can be used to give advice, as in the example: "You should arrive early if you want to make a good impression".
    • FLT methodology studies the patterns of communicative and cognitive activity of students.
    • A theoretical teaching of FL is referred to as an approach.
    • The principle of accessibility states that the material should correspond to the learner's age, mental powers, and level of language acquisition.
    • A syllabus is the main document which lays down the aims and content of teaching.
    • Modelling and methods of analysis are not methods on a theoretical level.
    • The linguistic component of the content of FLT at school includes language and linguistic material.
    • Teaching aids are various devices which help teachers present linguistic material
    • The aim of FLT to young learners is cross-cultural communication.
    • The aims of FLT at school and the programmes determine the content of FLT.
    • Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) is the ability and readiness to communicate on an intercultural level.
    • Motivation is a psychological phenomenon understood as an inner impulse or desire that moves a person to a particular action.
    • A principle is a guideline realized in the aims, content, means, and organization of FLT, determining the tactics and strategies of FLT.
    • J. Asher introduced the TPR method, elements of which can be used in FLT to young learners.
    • Socio-cultural competence is the knowledge of national-cultural peculiarities of social and speaking behavior of native speakers, including customs, etiquette, social stereotypes, history, and culture, as well as means of using this knowledge in the process of education.
    • The principle of consciousness implies a process of teaching where linguistic phenomena are taught consciously by means of comparing, explaining, demonstrating, and providing historical comments to make the process of acquisition easier.
    • A way of teaching FL involves using a wide variety of teaching materials in the target language.
    • Technology refers to a complex of approaches that have a special purpose for getting an effective result.
    • Visuality is a principle that implies the use of pictures, objects, puppets, songs, and poems.
    • Language competence is a component of communicative competence that suggests knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics.
    • The pupil-centered approach is a new philosophy of FL education which holds that the main figure in the teaching process is the learner.
    • Evaluation is a component of the pupil-centered approach.
    • The cognitive aspect of aim in FLT consists of the development of the learners' cognitive mechanisms.
    • Educational aims in FLT consist of widening learners' outlooks, involving them in culture, traditions, history, literature, and geography by means of the foreign language. Educational aims are realized through reading and analyzing actual cross-cultural texts during lessons, discussing current problems of the target language, watching authentic videos, etc.
    • The principle of activity is expressed in the Chinese Proverb, "I can remember 20% - of what I hear, I can remember 40% - of what I hear and see, I can remember 80% - of what I participate in".
    • The practical aims in teaching a foreign language are hearing, speaking, reading, and writing.
    • Psychological communication in oral and written forms is a component of the psychological content in FLT.
    • The conscious approach to foreign language teaching implies the use of the learner's native language.
    • A language laboratory is a special classroom designed for language learning.
    • The aims of FLT and the programme determine the choice of appropriate models of FLT and their duration.
    • The word "methods" originates from Greek.
    • Exercises used for developing pronunciation skills can be recognition exercises and reproduction exercises.
    • All aids and materials may be used in presenting, assimilating and reviewing vocabulary at every stage.
    • Oral language exists without written form.

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    This quiz explores various learning strategies and motivational techniques that educators can use to enhance student engagement and understanding. It covers topics such as the use of timelines, positive feedback, and introductory activities like drilling and miming. Test your knowledge on these essential teaching methods.

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