Learning Styles - Answer Definition: the mode in which learners best acquire information, knowledge, language, etc
Multiple Intelligences - Answer Definition: definitions of learner styles/types divided into different 'intelligences' conforming to a different sphere of activity
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Cambridge DELTA module 1 Terminology
Learning Styles - Answer ✓ Definition: the mode in which learners best acquire
information, knowledge, language, etc
Multiple Intelligences - Answer ✓ Definition: definitions of learner styles/types
divided into different 'intelligences' conforming to a different sphere of activity
Learner Profile - Answer ✓ Definition: an overview of a learner's strengths and weaknesses in terms of what learner styles and intelligences they have
Tolerance of Ambiguity - Answer ✓ Definition: a learner is happy to wait for a language rule and cope with only part of the story
Syllabus-bound learner - Answer ✓ Definition: describes a learner that needs the 'packaging' and presentation of data which the teacher, syllabus or course provides
Syllabus-free learner - Answer ✓ Definition: a learner who can learn from general elements in a learning context and outside of a classroom
Holistic learner - Answer ✓ Definition: describes a learner who learns language
through global exposure to language
Serialist learner - Answer ✓ Definition: describes a learner that needs to analyse elements sequentially
Field-dependent learner - Answer ✓ Definition: describes a learner who only sees systems in terms of the general structure Field-independent learner - Answer ✓ Definition: describes a learner who notices systems in larger structures
Intrinsic motivation - Answer ✓ Definition: a desire to learn based on some kind of internal requirement or satisfaction
Extrinsic motivation - Answer ✓ Definition: requirements for learning which come from 'outside'
Integrative motivation - Answer ✓ Definition: the need to learn is based on the student's requirement to 'fit in' inside an L2 environment
Instrumental motivation - Answer ✓ Definition: desire to learn caused by the need to achieve something
Performance orientation - Answer ✓ Definition: students who are motivated by the desire to be better than the people around them have performance orientation
Mastery orientation - Answer ✓ Definition: students who are motivated by the desire to improve a skill regardless of how others are performing
Progress test - Answer ✓ Definition: a test to find out if the aims of a course/part of a course have been achieved, and the content absorbed
Proficiency test - Answer ✓ Definition: a test to discover a learner's general abilities in skills and systems, not related to a particular course or text or programme of study Informal test - Answer ✓ Definition: the everyday testing we do in class - not under test conditions i.e. not timed or graded etc
Placement test - Answer ✓ Definition: a test done to place a student in the correct level/class at the start of a course
Diagnostic test - Answer ✓ Definition: a type of test which is designed to show what language skills or knowledge a learner already has
Aptitude test - Answer ✓ Definition: a test of a student's natural ability to learn a language (in this case)
Reliability - Answer ✓ Definition: the consistency of the results gained from the test
Practicality - Answer ✓ Definition: how easy the exam/test is to administer and mark
Face validity - Answer ✓ Definition: if a test looks like it tests what it is supposed to test (impression)
Content validity - Answer ✓ Definition: to what degree a test tests what it is supposed to (thoroughness)
Construct validity - Answer ✓ Definition: how much a test tests what it is supposed to and nothing else (precision)
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