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Generative Transformational Grammar Generative transformational grammar is a theory of grammar that was proposed by the American linguist Chomsky in 1957. It has since been developed by him and many other linguists. Chomsky attempted to provide a model for the description of all languages. A genera...

Language Aptitude Test is a test which measures a person's aptitude for second or foreign language learning and which can be used to identify those learners who are most likely to succeed. An aptitude test usually consists of several different tests which measure such abilities as: sound coding abi...

What a teacher needs to know to teach grammar: pattern and form ( e.g. have, past participle) lexical restrictions ( since/for) concept/function or meaning ( experiences) when we use it common problems ( confusion with sentences) AUDIOLINGUAL METHOD Not many structures but lots of model senten...

Proficiency Test might use similar test items (like achievement test), but would not be linked to any particular textbook or language syllabus. Diagnostic Test is a test which is designed to show what skills or knowledge a learner knows and does not know e.g. a diagnostic pronunciation test may be ...

Aims are long-term goals, described in very general terms: practical aims - learners acquire habits and skills in using a foreign language, i.e. communicative competence educational aims - learners develop their mental abilities and intelligence in the process of learning the foreign language cul...

Structural Linguistics Structural linguistics is an approach to linguistics which stresses the importance of language as a system and which investigates the place that linguistic units such as sounds, words, sentences have within this system. In its widest sense, the term has been used by various g...

Suggestopedia Suggestopedia is a method of foreign language teaching developed by Bulgarian doctor and psychiatrists Georgi Lazanov, who claimed about link between perception and learning, perceiving on paraconscious level. It makes use of dialogues, situations and translations to present and pract...

Teaching Pronunciation What to teach: - individual sounds (with phonemic distinctions) bit - bet - diphthongs - hear , boy - consonants clusters - school, train - linkage of sounds - stress patterns - sentences stress and rhythm - intonation How to teach sounds: - say the sound alone - sa...

Teaching Vocabulary Teaching Vocabulary: words we teach in the foreign language may be more than a single word or multi-word idioms ( the previous express a single idea) one item has more than one meaning( often) - the importance of meaning in the context Conceptual Meaning: polysemy - meaning...

The Audiolingual Method (Army Method - Americans) The audiolingual method is a method of foreign and second language teaching which: emphasizes the teaching of speaking and listening before reading and writing uses dialogues to present materials and drills (more active, less intellectual, more pr...