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Handout 2. Match The Activities and The Principles

The document matches activities commonly used in language classrooms (such as reading passages, translating, asking questions) with principles that guide language instruction (such as using the native language, focusing on grammar rules, and teacher authority). It provides 10 activities and 10 principles to pair together that represent different approaches to teaching language.

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Handout 2. Match The Activities and The Principles

The document matches activities commonly used in language classrooms (such as reading passages, translating, asking questions) with principles that guide language instruction (such as using the native language, focusing on grammar rules, and teacher authority). It provides 10 activities and 10 principles to pair together that represent different approaches to teaching language.

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HANDOUT 2.

Match the activities and the principles

1.D The class is reading an excerpt from A. It is possible to find native language
Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi equivalents for all target language words.

2. JStudents translate the passage from B. Students should be conscious of the


English to Spanish. grammatical rules of the target language.

3.E The teacher asks students in their C. It is important for students to learn about
native language if they have any the form of the target language.
questions. A student asks one and is
answered in her native language.

4.G Students write out the answer to D. A fundamental purpose of learning a


reading comprehension questions. foreign language is to be able to read its
literature. Literary language is superior to
spoken language. Students’ study of the
foreign culture is limited to its literature
and fine arts.

5.I The teacher decides whether an answer E. The ability to communicate in the target
is correct or not. If the answer is incorrect, language is not a goal of foreign language
the teacher selects a different student to instruction.
supply the correct answer or the teacher
herself gives the right answer.

6.A Students translate new words from F. Language learning provides good mental
English into Spanish. exercises.

7.C Students are given grammar rule for G. The primary skills to be developed are
the use of a direct object with two- word reading and writing. Little attention is
verbs. given to speaking and listening, and
almost none to pronunciation.

8.H Student apply a rule to examples they H. Deductive application of an explicit


are given. grammar rule is a useful pedagogical
technique.

9. FStudents memorize Vocabulary. I. The teacher is the authority in the


classroom. It is very important that
students get the correct answer.

10.B The teacher asks students to state the J. An important goal is for students to be
grammar rule. able to translate each language into
another.

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