Glossary

2º Year of Early Childhood Education

Sergia Medina Liceth Rivas

• TPR is a language teaching method where instructors give commands to students in the target language, and students respond with whole-body actions. Learning by doing.

Total Physical Response (TPR)

Mother tongue and Target language

• Target language: A language that a non native speaker is in the process of learning.

• Mother tongue: is a person's native language. It´s the first language.

Digital literacy

Literacy: Is the ability to use language proficiently. Skill.

Multiple intelligences:

• Howard Gardner´s theory who identified seven distinct intelligences.

• According to this theory, students can have many different learning styles depending on their kind of intelligence.

EFL and ESL • English a first

language (EFL): is the use of English as a native language.

• English as a second language (ESL): is the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages.

• The silent period, or preproduction, is a stage in second language acquisition where learners do not attempt to speak. Silent periods are more common in children than in adult learners.

Silent period

Approach and Drill

Drill: Disciplined, repetitious exercise as a means of teaching and perfecting a skill or procedure.

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Approach: it’s a method to teach or learning something.

• Phonics: is a method for teaching reading and writing of the English language in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them.

Phonics

• 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.

Acquisition vs learning