GLOSSARY

Aránzazu Ricote Rodríguez

Yara Labrador López

2nd Childhood Education

INDEX

• Approach

• Acquisition vs Learning

• Digital literaly

• Drills

• ESL

• EFL

• Multiple intelligences

• Mother tongue

• Phonics

• Silent Period

• Target language

• TPR

APPROACH

An approach is axiomatic. It describes the nature of the subject matter to be taught. It states a point of view, a philosophy, an article of faith - something which one believes but cannot necessarily prove. It is often unarguable except in terms of the effectiveness of the methods which grow out of it.

• It´s a method of teaching people to read and pronounce words by learning the sounds of letters, letter groups, and

syllables.

PHONICS

• Also, teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with

their sound values.

DIGITAL LITERACY

Digital literacy is concerned with wider aspects associated with learning how to effectively find, use, summarize, evaluate, create, and communicate information while using digital technologies, not just being literate at using a computer.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

• Gardner chose eight abilities that he held to meet these criteria: musical - rhythmic, visual -spatial, verbal - linguistic, logical -mathematical, bodily - kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic.

• He later suggested that existential and moral intelligence may also be worthy of inclusion.

TARGET LANGUAGE

• It is the language that learners are studying, and also the individual items of the language that they want tolerant, or the teacher wants them tolerant.

MOTHER TONGUE

• It’s the first language that a personspeaks the best and so is often the basis for sociolinguistic identity.

ESL

• English as a Second Language also refers to specialized approaches to

language teaching, designed for those whose primary language is not English.

EFL

• English as a Foreign Language.

• EFL is usually learned in environments where the language of the community and the school is not English.

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.

ACQUISITION vs LEARNING

• Acquisition is subconscious process. It does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules while Learning is a conscious process that consists of learning grammar rules of a foreign language.

TPR

• Total Physical Response.

• It can be considered as a from of communicative language teaching.

• This is an introduction to the teaching approach known as total physical response.

DRILLS

• Drills are performed mechanically and they depend on repetition. This is recommended in lower-leveled students and usually at the beginning of the lesson.

• There are three types of these drills; simple repetition drills (no creativity involved), substitution drill (substituting one or more items), transformation exercise (changing the structure).