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Inductive ‫ استقراء‬implicit

Deductive ‫ استنتاج‬explicit

Competence = ‫غياب المعرفة لدى الطالب‬

Intensive listening = bottom - up ( part to whole)


Extensive Listening = up - bottom ( whole to part)

Up - down= prior knowledge

Bottom - up = ‫ تهتم ب‬gtamatical competence

Intensive reading = focus on how to use the language in a text


( loud reading) + short , complicated

Extensive reading = fluency + general understanding

Reading ‫ = أصال يكون‬silent NOT oral

Approach = beliefs theoretical thoughts about language usage


Behaviorism

Methods = achieving learning adjusts


Teachers roll
Appliance of approaches
Audio -lingual

Technique = teaching aids + activities

Rubrics = ‫المقياس اللفظي‬


‫ تقيس اكثر من مهاره وتناسب المهارات الصعبه مثل‬essay
‫يعطيني معيار ويساعد الطالب‬

Grammar:
▫️
Explicit = forms
▫️
Implicit = meaning

Generalization
‫سببه‬
Difficult system of the target language

Morphology : the study of word structure .


Syntax : the study of sentence structure .
Semantics = study of meaning of the word

Extensive reading = develop fluency


Manner of articulation = stopped / flow ……

Place of articulation = ‫مكانه في الحلق‬


Velar - alveolar - denetal - nasal

Paralinguistic = no utterance

Strategic confidence = compensate ‫تعويضي‬

AR= context - generalization- additive - repetiton


EN= text (non context) - changing - specific (the use of possessive pronouns )

Reading - writing theory

ecological theory = place and local affect his writing


Cognitive = mental process
Sociocultural theory = cooperative + need peer work and feedback

Greeting = adjacency pair ( roll taking )

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✓ Concord :
Subject - verb agreement
‫الفعل مثل السبجيكت‬

✓ Parallelism :
‫استخدام الأفعال بتطابق‬
She like playing , cooking , to run ❌

literal comprehension = ‫الفهم السطحي للمعلومه بدون عمق‬


Interpretive comprehension = ‫الفهم العميق‬

Thin question = ‫ اسئله بسيطه ما تحتاج تفكير عميق وال‬critical thinking

Thick question = why ? How ? That is the reassoning ?

Coral reading = ‫يغنون‬


Suggestopidia
Pronunciation is developed by reading out loud

Community method = Affectively based ‫خليهم يفضفض عن مشاعرهم‬

The meaning of the sentence = semantics

Structure of the sentence = syntax


Cognates = words have similar meaning , pronunciation and look similar in another
language
(Cotton) ( computer )

Course evaluation = indirect with


Research project = direct method
Diagnostic = needs prior to instruction (weaknesses+ strength)

Discourse utterance = cohesive and coherence

Hyprid learning = blended learning


Face-to-face and online (Asynchrous)

krashen = natural approach “ error correction”

Intermediate ‫ مناسب لهم‬task based

Performance test = macro skills


Competence test = micro ( grammar pronunciation, vocabs)

Associating concepts = behaviorist ‫ربط المواضيع‬

language variation= inherent and systematic part in the language

Interjection= hello, hurry

Reference = speaking + writing ( output productive )

Relationship between part of the language and things outside of the language
‫أتكلم واقول رائعة‬

Inference = listening + reading ( input receptive)


‫ تعمق في المعاني‬impilied meaning

Photonics : articulation, acoustic, audition

Pictures = speaking and writing


Elision = ‫حذف حرف من الكلمه كاختيار‬
I’m gonna

Ellipsis = I ordered pizza and Sara burger

Zero anaphoric = ‫حذف ضمير عشان ما نعيده‬

Lack of confidence affect competence

Extensive speaking happens when you give oral reports speeches, and summaries

‫ = إسم بعدين صفة‬adjective phrase


‫ =صفة بعدين اسم‬noun phrase
‫ = إذا كان عندي فعل‬adverbs
Germanic = English
Roman = French , Spain , Italian

Fragment sentence = ‫يعني جملة ناقصة‬

Appositive sentence = ‫توضيح شي ماله داعي زي تعريف باسم‬


‫بفاصله‬

Copulative ‫ مثل‬linking verbs

‫ غموض الجملة‬syntactic = structure


‫ = غموض الكلمه‬semantic = lixical

To asses listening = summarize via speaking writing

Imperatives drills = physical activities

Symptoms/antonyms/ hyponyms/ homonyms/.….


‫ كلها مع‬semantic

Use a mind map when:

Brainstorming ideas.

Taking notes during a lecture or meeting.

Planning a project or essay.

Studying for an exam.

——————.
Use a concept map when:

Understanding complex topics.

Relation ship between ideas

Organizing research findings.


( structuring knowledge)

Solving problems.

Teaching or explaining a concept.

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Paralinguistic = teaching using gestures

Helps with coherence


Coherence means : the flow of idea and organizing it
Cohesion means: the connection between parts like conjunction
Syntactic = sentence structure
Morphology = word structure
Semantics = word meaning/sentence meaning
It’s a study of the meaning of the word
Linguistics = study of structure of the language

Read loud strategy = meta cognitive


Think loud strategy= critical thinking and express idea reflect their thinking,
ideas “ reading, and listening”

Word wall= reading, and writing


Word expansion, use of word

IELTS , TOEFL = Holistic scoring

Using the form, Maxines informative, truth, follow well event and clear = using
cooperative principle

Apply meaning through conversation= conversational implicature

Implicature = say something but means something else


Hidden meaning ‫مثل الطلب‬
Can you pass the salt ? (Request )
‫ اللي مثله ايضًا‬illocutionary

Indirect speech act = ‫هو سوال وجواب مالهم عالقه ببعض فيها‬

Direct speech act = ‫سوال صريح عن المقدره مثل‬


Semantic

Presupposition = assume something ‫من قبل‬


John is late again

( he is always late)

Manner maxim = ambiguity

Product writing = focuses on linguistic features

Synthetic syllables = grammar > creat phrases = inductive


Grammatical competence = bottom up ( linguistic competence)

Analytic = analys the phrase > grammar = inductive

National syllable = communication


Time/ quantity / location

strategy
Aim
Goals
Objectives

Intralanguage is developmental error = experimental


Interlanguage is not fixed , it develops progress

quantitative = test score

quantitative = fail/ pass comment/ opinion / good job


( questionnaire-interviews-observation portfolio -test)

Informal assessment = normal conditions


Through Systematic observation

Compositions = ‫ حقت‬teacher ‫يكتب فيها مؤلفاته‬


‫ الهدف منها‬monitor themselves and their progress

Feid dependent relies on big pictures context titles images “ external reference” (
social oriented )

Field independent = rely on step-by-step analytic solve problem “logic”


(Detail oriented )

At the end of chapter = formative ‫مثال‬


Progressive = specific scope

Achievement need a program = summative

Profiecency = STEP , doesn’t need a program ( summative , norm reference)

Summative = norms reference


Fomrative = criterion reference

Approximanta glides = semi vowel

Orthography = spelling
Structuralism:

✓ TPR = focus on vocabs and grammar


✓ Silent way = inductively + implicitly ( fidal chart)
✓ Direct “natural = inductively + implicitly > student self correction
“noL1”
✓ Audiolingual = implicit + inductive “noL1”
✓ Grammar = explicit + deductive
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Communicative = autonomy ( skills integrated)
Speaking and listening > writing and reading

National functional communicative:


1-task -based
2-content -based
3- communicative language teaching

( meta cognitive)
planning = preview the main idea
Monitoring = self checking
Evaluating = development to determine how well has been accomplished

(Cognitive)
Summarizing
Making inference = using clues to guess
Using Resources
Classifying
Predict ( anticipating)
Note taking

Strategic competence ( compensatory )


Overcome difficulties (knowledge gap)
To flow the communication

Teacher rolls to develop autonomy > facilitator, counselor, resource

Spatial = ‫يحبون الصور‬

Language attrition: loss of second or foreign language after learning


‫ يشبه‬plateau

Attrition of L1= among immigrants


Attrition of L2= language is not used in the community

TESOL = teaching English to speakers of other language

Speech accommodation = ‫تبسيط الكالم للطفل عشان يفهم‬


‫مراعاة الطرف الآخر في الكالم‬

Two to puberty = critical period hypothesis


He learns language, easily rapidly perfectly without instruction

Content schema = background knowledge related to topic ( earthquick )

Formal schema = background about structure particular genre ( types of report )

✓ Assimilation = taking new information


✓ Accommodation = changing altering exiting schema
✓ Equilibration = balance between them

Preparational = ‫ عنده‬ego
Concrete = “logic” beliefs , speech details
Formal = critical thinking reasons, abstract

Predicting = before
Inferring = in the middle of reading ( clues )
Editions. ‫ تصحيح‬ideals and structures
Proofreading = grammar mistakes

Formal dialogue = interviews, regarding workplace


Informational dialogue = teaching in school, giving a lecture

lpsative assessment = assisting student based on previous work, make them motivate
and learn from their mistakes

Implementation= delivereding the lesson to student

Blending = ‫أعطيهم حروف مفرقه واقولهم وش هي الكلمه‬

Segmenting = ‫أعطيهم كله واقول فصلوا الأصوات فيها‬

Isolating = ‫تنبهيهم على صوت من الأصوات‬


‫بشكل مميز او أقول لهم وش أقول صوت في كلمه ماب يقولون م‬

Connectivism = learning language, socially through technology

Intensive listening = dictation

Encourage to free write: ‫تعزيز الكتابه الحرة‬


Provide stimulus = realia
Working together = brain storm
Interactive activities
Teaching words with verbal presentation
Like semantic mapping ( synonym, antonyms,collocation)

‫ بعد‬to check understanding ‫ يحطونها في‬synonyms

Display question = elicit prior knowledge, ask about specific information , form
and meaning
Refriential questions = ‫ خياليه‬what would you do if
(Content)
Concept = to check if the student understand the lesson extract something from the
context

Gestures : your hand while speaking


Emblems = non-verbal signal ( thumbs up)
Backchannels = to show interests ( hmmm) yeah
Anomia = difficulties, finding words associated with wernicks aphasia

Common questions

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Inductive approaches in language teaching involve learners inferring rules through exposure and experimentation, emphasizing implicit learning processes . An example would be the Silent Way approach where students discover linguistic forms by themselves . Deductive approaches offer explicit instructions and clear rules prior to practice, such as in grammar-translation methods where learners apply known rules to translate or form sentences .

Intensive listening focuses on detailed understanding and involves bottom-up processing, which emphasizes grammatical competence and part-to-whole comprehension . Extensive listening, on the other hand, encourages fluency and general understanding, utilizing top-down processing where prior knowledge helps to understand the whole context .

Formal dialogues involve structured, often professional or academic communication such as interviews or lectures . They require adherence to formal linguistic norms and conventions. Informal dialogues, such as casual conversations among friends or impromptu discussions, use informal language and expressions, allowing flexibility and spontaneous interaction .

Concord, or subject-verb agreement, is critical in maintaining grammatical correctness and ensuring sentences are structurally sound . Proper concord creates sentences that are coherent and understandable, as the verb must agree in number with the subject, thus reinforcing syntactic reliability and clarity in communication .

Language attrition refers to the gradual loss of a language when it is not used, often seen in immigrant populations who do not maintain their native language in a foreign context . It highlights the need for continuous practice and exposure to retain language skills. For learners, it emphasizes the importance of regular use, community engagement, and the integration of language in daily life to prevent deterioration and ensure proficiency .

Sociocultural theory in language learning highlights the importance of social interaction and cooperative learning as essential to language acquisition . It posits that learning occurs through engagement with more proficient peers or teachers, utilizing feedback and collaborative tasks to build language skills . This approach emphasizes the significant role of culture and context in shaping linguistic competence.

Paralinguistic features, such as gestures, help to organize and flow ideas coherently by providing additional cues and context that support verbal communication . They assist in bridging gaps in understanding and maintaining the listener's attention, which is crucial for achieving cohesion and coherence in language learning .

Cognitive theories focus on individual mental processes, analyzing how information processing and problem-solving contribute to language learning . They emphasize internal cognitive development and skills like memory and inference making. Sociocultural theories diverge by prioritizing the social context of learning, advocating for interaction, culture, and collaborative learning as keys to language acquisition . Both theories converge in recognizing the need for active engagement but differ in the source and nature of the learning mechanisms—internal for cognitive versus external for sociocultural.

Reading is traditionally silent to promote internalization of meaning and improve fluency without the pressure of pronunciation . This method allows learners to focus on comprehension, reduce cognitive load by minimizing multitasking, and encourages a deeper interaction with text structures and vocabulary .

Strategic competence involves using various compensatory strategies to bridge gaps in knowledge and overcome difficulties in communication . Strategies include inferencing, using synonyms or paraphrasing, and employing gestures or visual aids to convey meaning . This competence helps learners manage conversations more effectively, especially when facing vocabulary or grammatical limitations, thus maintaining communicative flow.

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