Thornbury (ch. 5 & 6) and Scrivener

Imagine you (as a teacher) want to teach a related set of words - how do you present them? Which factors are important? (more answers might be correct)

The level of the learners

The age of the learners

The learners familiarity with words

The social background of learners

The difficulty of the items

Their "teachability"

Competences of the learners (regarding language acquisition)

Whether items are being learned for production or for recognition only

The abbreviation "TPR" stands for .... (= a method that promotes initial immersion in a high quantity of comprehensible input)

A drill is any repetition of a short chunk of language. The teacher can (after having established the meaning of a new word) model it by using so-called listening drills.

True

False

The mental lexicon is the learners existing knowledge, I. e. The existing network of word associations.

True

False

The two main types of production tasks are ...

Completion - of sentences and texts

Complementation - of sentences and texts

Creativity - of sentences and texts

Creation - of sentences and texts

What are common pre-teaching tasks you can find in coursebooks? (more answers might be correct)

Match the words with the pictures

Write down the meaning of the words

Match the words with the definitions

Discuss a topic

Write a short essay about a topic

Compare your results with a partner

Say which words you expect to be in the text

In the text (Scrivener) you can find a lesson procedure: Written & Oral practice of lexis are important parts/tasks of this work.

True

False

"Labelling" means separating words from each other so that words are learned separately from each other.

True

False

Thornbury (ch. 5 & 6) and Scrivener

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