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1. Aouatif Benali
Josefina M. París Afugu

2. INDEX
• Approach
• Acquisition vs. Learning
• Digital Literacy
• EFL
• ESL
• LAD
• Literacy
• Multiple Intellingencies Theory
• Phonics
• Silent Period
• TPR
• Target Language
• Mother tongue
• The Critical period
• ZPD

3. APPROACH
• A set or principles about teaching including views on
method, syllabus, and a philosophy of language and
learning. Approaches have theoretical backing with
practical applications.

4. ACQUISITION VS LEARNING
• Children acquire language through a subconscious
process during which they are unaware of
grammatical rules. This is similar to the way they
acquire their first language. They get a feel for what
is and what isn’t correct. In order to acquire language,
the learner needs a source of natural communication.
The emphasis is on the text of the communication and
not on the form. Young students who are in the
process of acquiring English get plenty of “on the
job” practice. They readily acquire the language to
communicate with classmates.

5. DIGITAL LITERACY VS LITERACY
• Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize,
share, and create content using information
technologies and the Internet and literacy is the
ability to use available symbol systems that are
fundamental to learning and teaching.

6. EFL
(English as a foreign language)
• Non-native speakers who are learning English
language in a non-native English environment, for
example, Koreans, Chinese, an Japanese learning
English in Korea, China and Japan.

7. ESL
( English as a second language )
• Non-native speaker who are learning Enlish language
in an English language envioriment for example,
inmigrants to the U.K, Canada, or the U.S.

8. LAD
(Lenguage Adquisiton Device)
• The LAD is a system of principles that children are
born with that helps them learn language, and
accounts for the order in which children learn
structures, and the mistakes they make as they learn.

9. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES THEORY
• Multiple intelligences, an approach developed by
psychologist and educator Howard Gardner, looks at
intelligence not as a single concept, but as varied
areas of human ability that shape behaviour and
learning. He originally identified seven intelligences
-- visual/spatial, verbal, logical/mathematical,
musical/rhythmic, bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal,
and intrapersonal.

10. PHONICS
• Is a method for teaching reading and writing 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 spelling patterns that
represent them.

11. 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.

12. TPR
• A teaching technique whereby a learner (usually
young learner) responds to language input with body
motions. This could be, for example, the acting out a
chant.

13. TARGUET LANGUAGE
• The language into which a text written in another
language is to be translated.

14. MOTHER TONGUE
• The first language that you learn when you are a
baby, rather than a language learned at school or as
an adult.

15. THE CRITICAL PERIOD
• The hypothesis that if somebody does not acquire a
first language before a certain time (around puberty),
they will lose the ability to acquire language. There
are two versions of this hypothesis: The strong
version states that language acquisition will be
impossible after this point has been reached. The
weak version states that acquisition will be difficult
after this period has been reached.

16. ZPD
• The Zone of Proximal Development theory stems
from the work of social psychologist Lev Vygotsky,
who emphasizes the notion that social interaction is
critical to learning. He conceives of learning as
constantly moving from an "actual development
level" to a "potential development level." Between
these levels lies the ZPD, where learning occurs
through the interaction of an expert (the teacher) and
a novice (the learner). Eventually the learner's
potential level becomes the actual level and the
learning cycle continues.

17. WEBGRAPHY
• https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/silent-period
• https://www.goodwordguide.com/
• http://kids.wordsmyth.net/wild/
• https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/index/
• http://www.learner.org/workshops/tfl/glossary.html#communicative_mo
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• http://bogglesworldesl.com/glossary.htm
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http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/language_acquisiti_vs_languag
e_02033.php
• http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/mother-tongue
• https://digitalliteracy.cornell.edu/