The document discusses several language teaching methods and concepts, including Total Physical Response which uses physical movement to reduce inhibitions, the difference between language acquisition and learning, the silent period in language learning, and definitions of terms like mother tongue, EFL, ESL, approach, drill, phonics, digital literacy, multiple intelligences, and target language.

1. 2nd year of Childhood Education
Verónica Cañadillas
Sara de Blas

2. Total Physical Response
Is a method of teaching language using
physical movement to react to verbal
input in order to reduce student
inhibitions and lower their affective
filter.

3. ACQUISITION VS.
LEARNING LANGUAGE
Adult second language learners can develop
second language learning. One method
is learning, a conscious study of the forms of
language. The other method is acquisition, or
just picking up a language the way children
do without conscious attention to forms.
VS.

4. SILENT PERIOD
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.
What the
heck is going
on?

5. MOTHER TONGUE
Refers to the first language learned at
home in childhood and still understood
by the person at the time the data
was collected.
ABC
How can you
learn English
in 10 lessons
Mom = Mamá
Dad = Papá
…

6. EFL (English as foreigner
Language )
It's used to describe English language
learning in countries where English is
not an official first language.

7. ESL (English as second
language )
Students whose first language
is something other than
English are referred to as
"English Language Learners"
and are often designated as
ESL in order to
receive accommodations and
support with their language
acquisition goals.
Students in an ESL program
benefit
from scaffolding techniques that
add appropriate instructional aid.
ESL students are working to
become fluent in oral, written,
and spoken English.

8. APPROACH
It’s a method to teach o learning
something.

9. DRILL
Disciplined, repetitious exercise as a me
ans of teaching and perfecting a skill or
procedure.

10. PHONICS
A method of
teaching
elementary
reading and
spelling based
on the
phonetic
interpretation
of ordinary
spelling.

11. DIGITAL LITERACY
The ability to operate a computer and
to understand the language used in
working with a specific system or
systems.

12. MULTIPLE
INTELLIGENCES
It’s a theory, it’s knowing as model of
intelligence that differentiates it into specific
(primary sensory) “modalities”, rather than
seeing it as dominated by a single general ability.

13. TARGET LANGUAGES
A language that a nonnative speaker is in
the process of learning.