16
TEFL (Subject) / VL 2 + 4 (Lesson)
Advertisement
- What does the sctructural view say on Language? sees language as a linguistic system made up of various subsystems like morphemes, phonemes up to sentences each language has a finite number of such items to learn a language means to learn these items to be able to understand and produce the language
- What does the functional view say on language? sees language as a linguistic system but also as a means for doing things most of our day-to-day language use involves functional activities: offering, suggesting, advising therefore learners learn a language in order to be able to use it
- What does the interactional view say abou language? considers language as a tool, mainly used to build up and maintain social relationships between people learner not only need to know the linguistic rules but also how to use them in a variety of communicative contexts
- What are the four dimensions of communicative competence? grammatical sociolinguistic discourse strategic
- How does chomsky separate competence from performance? competence is knowing how to use a language performance is the production of language
- Relationship between CLT and grammar It is sometimes forgotten that communicative competence not only includes a command of rules of language use but also a command of morpho syntactic rules Teaching for communication means teaching students to do things through language and mastering the grammatical structures to achieve that end FLT without some form of explicit grammar teaching is impossible I regard grammar as an integral part of language. You can learn grammar without the language but not the other way around
- What is a skill? a learned capacity to carry out an activity with increasing certainity and efficiency can be trained by practising
- What is an ability? the quality of being able to do something especially the mental, physical financial or legal power to do something
- What is competence? the ability to do something well, the quality or state of being competent, possession of required skill, knowledge and qualification in linguistics: the implicit internalized knowledge of a language that a speaker possesses that enables him to produce and unterstand the language
- Difference competence-competency competence: general ability competency: ability to perform a certain task
- Advertisement
- What are the 4 skills Receptive productive oral listening comprehension Speaking written reading comprehension Writing oral before written receptive before productive
- Listening comprehension interactive/non interactive listening situations receptive skill but listeners isnt passive micro-skills: distinguish word boundaries recognize patterns guess meaning of unknown words detect key words
- Speaking Distinction between formal and informal speaking influenced by occasion topic social relationship Micro-Skills: pronounce distinctive sounds use correct word form appropriate vocabulary
- Reading comprehension micro skills: decode alphabetic system recognize words and chunks figure out meaning - key words recognize word class/sentence constituents
- Writing involves graphic representation of speech, development and presentation of thoughts in a structured way Microskills: correct use of orthography, lexical items, word forms distinction between main and supporting ideas of information
- Mediation transferring the gist of an oral or written message from one language to the other distinction between simultaneous consecutive and informal oral mediation written mediation