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Teaching Methodologies and Approaches Flashcards

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  1. Which teaching approach emphasizes learner autonomy and encourages students to discover grammar rules from examples rather than being told them?

    Answer: Inductive approach

    The inductive approach has learners examine language examples and infer rules themselves, fostering deeper understanding.

  2. A teacher wants to use a 'flipped classroom' model for a TEFL course. What would this typically involve?

    Answer: Students study grammar videos at home; class time is used for communicative practice

    In flipped learning, direct instruction is delivered outside class (usually via video), freeing class time for interactive tasks.

  3. Genre-based pedagogy helps EFL learners primarily by:

    Answer: Explicitly teaching the social purposes and structural features of text types

    Genre-based pedagogy (Halliday, Martin) teaches learners to recognize and produce specific text types—e.g., reports, arguments—through modeling and guided practice.

  4. When using the PPP (Presentation-Practice-Production) framework, what is the teacher's main role during the 'Production' stage?

    Answer: Monitor and provide delayed feedback while students communicate freely

    During Production, learners use the target language autonomously; the teacher steps back and notes errors for later feedback.

  5. Which methodology explicitly rejects the use of learners' first language in the classroom and insists on target-language-only instruction?

    Answer: The Direct Method

    The Direct Method, popularized by Berlitz, banned L1 use and taught meaning through demonstration, objects, and pictures.

  6. In Dogme ELT, materials-light teaching is preferred because:

    Answer: Conversation and emergent language from students are seen as the most authentic basis for learning

    Scott Thornbury's Dogme ELT prioritizes learner-generated content and conversational interaction over pre-planned materials.

  7. A teacher uses 'consciousness-raising tasks' in which learners sort sentences into grammatical and ungrammatical piles. The primary goal is to:

    Answer: Develop explicit awareness of a grammatical rule through guided discovery

    Consciousness-raising tasks direct learners' attention to grammatical patterns so they can articulate the underlying rule.