Glossary

Jennifer AmorRocio Laguna

Total Physical Response (TPR)

• It is a language-teaching method developed by James Asher, based on the coordination of language and physical movement.

• Instructors give commands to students in the target language, and students respond with whole-body actions.

Acquisition vs Learning Though most scholars use the terms

“language learning” and “language acquisition” interchangeably, actually these terms differ.

• Language learning refers to the formal learning of a language in the classroom.

• Language acquisition means acquiring the language with little or no formal training or learning.

Silent Period • The silent period hypothesis is the idea

that when a language is learned, there should be a period in which the learner is not expected to actively produce any language. This is based on observations of a listening period in infants

when they learn a first

language.

Mother Tongue

• 1. One's native language.

• 2. A parent language.

EFL. English as a Foreign Language

• A traditional term for the use or study of the English language by non-native speakers in countries where English is generally not a local medium of communication.

ESL. English as a Second Language

• Students whose first language is something other than English are referred to as "English Language Learners" and are often designated as ESL in order to receive accommodations and support with their language acquisition goals.

Drills

• A task or exercise for teaching a skill or procedure by repetition

Approach

• Method and strategies for knowledge and learning for children

Phonics • Phonics is a method for teaching reading

and writing of the English language by developing learners' phonemic awareness, in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns that represent them.

Digital Literacy

• It is the ability to understand information and to evaluate and integrate information in multiple formats that the computer can deliver.

Multiple Intelligences • The theory of multiple intelligences is a

theory of intelligence that differentiates it into specific (primarily sensory), rather than seeing intelligence as dominated by a single general ability

Target Language

• The target language is the language learners are studying, and also the individual items of language that they want to learn, or the teacher wants them to learn.