Glossary audiolingual teaching

New Concurrent Method (Jacobson and Faltis, 1990): this required teachers to switch languages between L1 and L2 at carefully planned key points chosen by topic, function, etc.
Reciprocal language teaching is a teaching method in which pairs of students alternately teach each other their languages ‘language of the day’, to teach each other their own language.
Submersion teaching: sink-or-swim form of teaching in which minority language children are put in majority language classes.
Suggestopedia (Lozanov, 1978) is a teaching method aimed at avoiding the students' block about language learning through means such as listening to music.
Think-aloud. A strategy for uncovering someone's thought process involving describing and recording each step in solving problems through recording or computer technology.
Think-pair-share. Used to engage students in prior knowledge of a topic. Students first think about a question related to the topic of study, then pair up with a partner to share throughts, and finally the pairs choose one major idea to share with the entire class.
Transparent grading. The process of helping students understand the grade they have received through rubrics, comments, distribution of points, or location of error.
Task-based learning is an approach that sees learning as arising from particular tasks the students do in the classroom and has been increasingly seen as a logical development from communicative language teaching.
Writing as reflection. Writing from a first-person perspective in a way that encourages students to think about what they have learned from a particular reading, project, or experience, with an emphasis on helping students become metacognitive of their learning process.
Writing for an audience. Writing for an audience refers to the process by which authors of any written object tailor their choice of words, formality, mood, and depth of explanation to their assumed audience. For students, this process is a necessary challenge as they encounter and evaluate new audiences and become more self-reflective about their writing.