GLOSSARY

Almudena Calvo

2nd ChilDhood Education

TPR TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE

Total physical response (TPR) is a language teaching method developed by James Asher.

It is based on the coordination of language and physical movement. In TPR, instructors give commands to students in the target language, and students respond with whole-body actions.

TPR can involve listening and doing actions with a song or just responding to the teacher’s commands.

There are 3 major phases:

Pre-teaching key words

Listen, watch and do

Listen and do (jumple order)

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ACQUISITION VS LEARNING

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SILENT PERIOD

Silent period, an interval of time during which students feel unable to communicate orally in the foreign language.

Although children are much more motivated to express themselves and try new things, they can also feel embarrassment or shyness and they might pass through a silent period.

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MOTHER TONGUE

I

s the language a person has

learned from birth or within the

critical period. Children brought up

speaking more than one language

can have more than one native

language, and be bilingual.

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EFL

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.

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ESL

A

traditional term for the use or study of the English

language by non-native speakers in an English-speaking

environment.

T

hat environment may be a country in which English is the

mother tongue (e.g., Australia, the U.S.) or one in which

English has an established role

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DRILLS

D

rilling is a technique that has been used in foreign language

classrooms for many years. It was a key feature of audio

lingual approaches to language teaching which placed

emphasis on repeating structural patterns through oral practice

and the repetition

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APPROACH

T

he approach is the way in which the teacher

wants guiding their classes, depending on

different points of view , according to how to

teach and what you want to work .

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PHONICS

P

honics is a method for teaching reading and writing of the

English language by developing learners' phonemic awareness—

the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes—in order

to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the

spelling patterns that represent them.

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DIGITAL LITERACY

The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information.

Digital Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media, to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments.

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LITERACY

L

iteracy is the ability to read and write. Visual literacy also

includes the ability to understand visual forms of

communication such as body language, pictures, maps,

and video.

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MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCIES

The theory of multiple intelligences is a theory of intelligence that differentiates it into specific (primarily sensory) "modalities", rather than seeing intelligence as dominated by a single general ability.

The idea of multiple intelligences is important because it allows for educators to identify differing strengths and weaknesses in students and also contradicts the idea that intelligence can be measured through IQ(intelligence quotient).

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TARGET LANGUAGE

T

arget language is a

language that someone

is learning, or a

language into which a

text has to be

translated.

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