(COMPONENT 1-) NBCT World Language
Teaching methods questions with correct
verified detailed answers latest update 2025
FLEX --- correct answer ---Foreign Language Exploratory or
Experience are programs in the middle school designed to introduce
learners to one or SEVERAL languages and cultures (chpt. 4, pg. 114).
FLTEACH --- correct answer ---Foreign lanuguage teaching forum
which offers discussion boards and internet resources for foreign
language teachers
formative assessment --- correct answer ---assessments that are
administered throughout the year or the lesson and are integrated
into the learning process-thus they "serve to inform and change
instructional practices." Teacher can use FA to redirect lesson if
students are not understanding and unable to meet and carry out
learning objectives. designed to "help form or shape learners' ongoing
understanding or skills whiche the teacher and learners still have the
opportunities to interact for the purposes of repair or improvement"
during instruction.
,graphic organizers --- correct answer ---"visuals that display words or
concepts in categories to illustrate how they relate to one another."
(p. 129)
guided participation (GP) --- correct answer ---the segment of a
lesson where the teacher models the skill that the students will be
asked to demonstrate. The students are given specific instructions
which are modeled for them. They then perform an activity according
to these specific steps, using tools such as a template with word bank
to practice the skills that they will need to demonstrate or carry out in
the extension portion of the lesson. GP is the precursor to and
preparation for the extension activities where the students will
produce text or discourse based on the lesson objectives.
heritage language learner --- correct answer ---"learned languages
other than English at home and in the U.S., as a result of their cultural
or ethnic backgrounds; they speak and understand the HL (which
refers to languages of immigrant, refugee, and indigenous groups as
well as former colonial languages). (p. 371, ch.10)
implicit grammar instruction --- correct answer ---By providing
grammar in context, in an implicit manner, teachers can expose
students to substantial doses of grammar. The book recommends a
dialogic co-construction approach to grammar instruction. Pg 219
, information gap activities --- correct answer ---task-based activities
where one student has information that another student does NOT
have but needs. students must interact "with others by using TL as
means to an end" in an effort to fill in the gaps of information
necessary to complete the task.
interaction hypothesis --- correct answer ---Long's theory that
speakers will change and modify their language use based on
interactions with others. They will negotiate meaning and interact to
resolve meaning by 1)simplifying the input (familiar vocab &
structures 2)using linguistic and extralinguistic features (gestures,
familiar structures, etc.) 3) modifying the interactional structure of
conversation (p.20)
input hypothesis --- correct answer ---Krashen building on Chomsky --
> "acquisition occurs only when learners receive an optimal quantity
of COMPREHENSIBLE, interesting input, A LITTLE BEYOND THEIR
CURRENT LEVEL OF COMPETENCE (i + 1= a little beyond learner's
current level) and NOT grammatically sequenced, but
UNDERSTANDABLE using background knowledge, context,
extralinguistic clues. (p. 15)
Teaching methods questions with correct
verified detailed answers latest update 2025
FLEX --- correct answer ---Foreign Language Exploratory or
Experience are programs in the middle school designed to introduce
learners to one or SEVERAL languages and cultures (chpt. 4, pg. 114).
FLTEACH --- correct answer ---Foreign lanuguage teaching forum
which offers discussion boards and internet resources for foreign
language teachers
formative assessment --- correct answer ---assessments that are
administered throughout the year or the lesson and are integrated
into the learning process-thus they "serve to inform and change
instructional practices." Teacher can use FA to redirect lesson if
students are not understanding and unable to meet and carry out
learning objectives. designed to "help form or shape learners' ongoing
understanding or skills whiche the teacher and learners still have the
opportunities to interact for the purposes of repair or improvement"
during instruction.
,graphic organizers --- correct answer ---"visuals that display words or
concepts in categories to illustrate how they relate to one another."
(p. 129)
guided participation (GP) --- correct answer ---the segment of a
lesson where the teacher models the skill that the students will be
asked to demonstrate. The students are given specific instructions
which are modeled for them. They then perform an activity according
to these specific steps, using tools such as a template with word bank
to practice the skills that they will need to demonstrate or carry out in
the extension portion of the lesson. GP is the precursor to and
preparation for the extension activities where the students will
produce text or discourse based on the lesson objectives.
heritage language learner --- correct answer ---"learned languages
other than English at home and in the U.S., as a result of their cultural
or ethnic backgrounds; they speak and understand the HL (which
refers to languages of immigrant, refugee, and indigenous groups as
well as former colonial languages). (p. 371, ch.10)
implicit grammar instruction --- correct answer ---By providing
grammar in context, in an implicit manner, teachers can expose
students to substantial doses of grammar. The book recommends a
dialogic co-construction approach to grammar instruction. Pg 219
, information gap activities --- correct answer ---task-based activities
where one student has information that another student does NOT
have but needs. students must interact "with others by using TL as
means to an end" in an effort to fill in the gaps of information
necessary to complete the task.
interaction hypothesis --- correct answer ---Long's theory that
speakers will change and modify their language use based on
interactions with others. They will negotiate meaning and interact to
resolve meaning by 1)simplifying the input (familiar vocab &
structures 2)using linguistic and extralinguistic features (gestures,
familiar structures, etc.) 3) modifying the interactional structure of
conversation (p.20)
input hypothesis --- correct answer ---Krashen building on Chomsky --
> "acquisition occurs only when learners receive an optimal quantity
of COMPREHENSIBLE, interesting input, A LITTLE BEYOND THEIR
CURRENT LEVEL OF COMPETENCE (i + 1= a little beyond learner's
current level) and NOT grammatically sequenced, but
UNDERSTANDABLE using background knowledge, context,
extralinguistic clues. (p. 15)
