SNIPPETS
SNIPPETS
SNIPPETS
- Reinforce the foundation of learning, helping pupils overcome their learning difficulties,
developing learning potentials.
What should be done first before doing remedial instruction – diagnose the difficulty.
Learning in context make students see how ideas and skills connect to their families and communities.
Reading trainers in remedial instruction should minimize testing and grading and observe the student in
the actual act of reading.
Academic/Scientific Writing - DOES NOT use passive voice more than the active voice.
Hedging – is a scientific writing strategy where writers use aspects of the verb as devices to express
politeness or to distance themselves from a claim.
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS is any study of language text at a level above that of the sentence.
GENRE ANALYSIS is a text analysis focused on the regularities of structure that distinguish one type of
text from another.
SKILL SYLLABUS – taking notes, writing, study techniques and exam, improving reading.
SKILLS AND STRATEGIES SYLLABUS – exercises in personal evaluation, exercises in examining your job
needs, exercises in using the ads.
RHGP Revitalized Homeroom Guidance Program – project for school staff members and teachers was
conducted to better match students with their aptitudes and career interests.
NSEC New Secondary Education Curriculum – implemented in 1989 to replace the RSEP Revised
Secondary Education Program.
THEORETICAL LINGUSITICS
- Changing views and theories of language teaching, different technical terms like phoneme,
morpheme, hyponymy etc., pronouncing words and transcribing sounds using the IPA
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
- How to develop the macro-language skills of listening, speaking, reading, ideas about the
learning styles of students and materials production, learning, strategies, principles of test
construction, and conducting class research
COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT – by Stephen Krashen which states that a student can learn a second language
if the language components are not too complex and not too easy.
GRAMMAR TRANSLATION METHOD – emphasizes isolated word lists and a thorough examination of
grammar is used in second language teaching.
TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE – uses body actions when an instruction is being uttered
NATURAL ORDER HYPOTHESIS – grammatical structure proceeds in a predictable order, that is, some
grammatical structures are to be acquired early and others later.
AFFECTIVE FILTER HYPOTHESIS – motivation, self-confidence and anxiety affect how an individual
acquires the language.
CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS – there is an optimal window of time during which anyone can learn a
first language or a second language in a normal or nativelike level.
AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH – involves repetition of the second language grammatical forms especially
those that are different from the learners first language.
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE SCAFFOLDING – providing students with second language input that is a little bit
beyond their level; the teacher or a more advance classmate acts as a support as the student builds
his/her second language vocabulary and fluency.
DIALOGUE JOURNALS - create a conversation between each students and the teacher; students write a
topic in their second language journal
DIRECT APPROACH – never uses the first language because it emphasizes the natural dialogue in the
second language.
INTER-LANGUAGE PRAGMATICS – non-native speakers acquire, comprehend and use linguistic patterns
or speech acts in a second language.
VOWELS are speech sounds to give the sound a particular color or timbre.
CLIFFHANGER – ends abruptly/ the characters are left in a difficult situation w/o resolution of conflicts.
FARCE – comedy based on a far-fetched humorous situation often with ridiculous or stereotyped
character.
EA POE – atmosphere
MAUPASSANT – characters
Without Seeing the dawn by Steven Javellana was during Japanese occupation