SLA Exam questions and answers
Procedures for EA ✔✔1) Collect Data
2) Identify each error
3) Classify errors
4) Quantify errors
5) Identify the source of each error
6) Remediation
Problems with EA ✔✔- Focuses too much on errors, denied access to the whole
picture
- Failure to account for all the areas of the L2
- Overemphasis on production data
- Difficulty in identifying the single source of an error
Learning Styles ✔✔- Field Dependency
- Sensory Preferences
- Brain Orientation
- Ambiguity Tolerance
- Reflectivity
, Field De/Independence ✔✔- Field Dependence: Tendency to depend on the total
field so that the parts embedded within the field are not easily distinguished (Tree
< Forest)
- Field Independence: Ability to distinguish a particular, relevant item in a "field"
of distracting items (Tree > Forest)
Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) ✔✔The GEFT requires study participants to
find a hidden simple form within a complex figure
- Field independent individuals tend to quickly locate the hidden figures
- Field dependent individuals relatively struggle to locate the hidden figures
Left-brain Dominance VS Right-brain Dominance ✔✔Left:
- Intellectual/ Analytical
- L2 learners prefer a deductive learning style
Right:
- Intuitive/ Synthesizing
- L2 learners prefer an inductive learning style
Ambiguity Tolerance ✔✔Acceptance of ambiguity (or confusing situations)
Low and High Ambiguity Tolerance ✔✔Low: tend to
- Compartmentalize
- Often have difficulty dealing with confusing issues in language learning
Procedures for EA ✔✔1) Collect Data
2) Identify each error
3) Classify errors
4) Quantify errors
5) Identify the source of each error
6) Remediation
Problems with EA ✔✔- Focuses too much on errors, denied access to the whole
picture
- Failure to account for all the areas of the L2
- Overemphasis on production data
- Difficulty in identifying the single source of an error
Learning Styles ✔✔- Field Dependency
- Sensory Preferences
- Brain Orientation
- Ambiguity Tolerance
- Reflectivity
, Field De/Independence ✔✔- Field Dependence: Tendency to depend on the total
field so that the parts embedded within the field are not easily distinguished (Tree
< Forest)
- Field Independence: Ability to distinguish a particular, relevant item in a "field"
of distracting items (Tree > Forest)
Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) ✔✔The GEFT requires study participants to
find a hidden simple form within a complex figure
- Field independent individuals tend to quickly locate the hidden figures
- Field dependent individuals relatively struggle to locate the hidden figures
Left-brain Dominance VS Right-brain Dominance ✔✔Left:
- Intellectual/ Analytical
- L2 learners prefer a deductive learning style
Right:
- Intuitive/ Synthesizing
- L2 learners prefer an inductive learning style
Ambiguity Tolerance ✔✔Acceptance of ambiguity (or confusing situations)
Low and High Ambiguity Tolerance ✔✔Low: tend to
- Compartmentalize
- Often have difficulty dealing with confusing issues in language learning
