Learning Logs

A. New Vocabulary Log

Full Name: Ledy Dollar
ID Number: 1610631060095
Semester Class: 4B
Short Story Title:
Source of Text:
Instruction
Please pick unfamiliar words from the short story you have read and fill in the new vocabulary log below:

No Word Word Class Page, Word Context (Put Sentences Word Meaning Synonym
Paragraph Containing Unfamiliar Words)
1 proponents Noun 12, 4 But despite pressure from proponents of person who advocates, supports advocate, backer,
the method, it was difficult to implement cause champion, defender,
in public secondary school education. enthusiast, exponent,
expounder, friend,
partisan, patron,
protector, second,
seconder,
spokesperson,
subscriber, supporter,
upholder, vindicator
2 distorted Adjective 12,4 It overemphasized and distorted the Crooked anamorphic, askew,
awry, cockeyed,
similarities between naturalistic first colored, gnarled,
language learning and classroom foreign perverted, wry.
language learning and failed to consider
the practical realities of the classroom.
3. superseded Adjective 15,4 The 1950s and 1960s saw the emergence out-of-date antiquated, archaic,
of the Audiolingual Method and the obsolete, old, old-
Situational Method, which were both
 superseded by the Communicative fashioned, outmoded,
Approach. passé.

4. Bandwagon Noun 15,3 Unfortunately, the latest bandwagon Fashion appearance,

"methodologies" come into prominence bandwagon, chic,
without much study or understanding, configuration,
particularly those that appear easiest to convention, craze,
immediately apply in the classroom or cry, cultism, cultus,
those that are supported by a particular custom, cut, dernier
"guru". cri, fad, faddism,
figure, form, furor, in
thing, last word,
latest, latest thing,
line*, look, make,
mode, model, mold,
newest wrinkle,
pattern, rage, shape,
thing*, tone, trend,
usage, vogue
5. Elaborate Verb 19,6 Mackey, in his book Language Teaching make detailed; expand amplify, bedeck,
Analysis (1965), elaborated perhaps the clarify, comment,
most well known model of the 1960s, complicate, deck,
one that focuses primarily on the levels decorate, develop,
of method and technique. devise, discuss,
embellish, enhance,
enlarge, evolve,
expatiate, explain,
expound, flesh out,
garnish, improve,
interpret, ornament,
particularize, polish,
produce, refine,
specify, unfold, work
out
 Grammar Log
Instruction
- Put you 5 favorites best quotes in the short story you have read into the grammar log below
- Identify appropriate grammatical features inherent in the identified sentences (1) Theme/Topic (2) Rheme/Connect (3) Tenses (4)
Modality (5) Mood (6) Polarity (7) Active/Passive (8) Connector (9) Referent (10) Type of Sentence
- Keep in mind or remember that each identified sentence may not comprise all the grammatical features

No Sentences Grammatical Forms Grammatical Features

Subject Finite Predicator Complement Adjunct
1 it will allow It Will Allow With interesting people 1. It
me to meet Allow Meet 2. Will allow me to meet and converse
and converse Meet Converse with interesting people
with Converse 3. Simple Future Tense
interesting 4.Will
people. 5. Declarative Sentence
6. +
7. Active Voice
8. With
9. It refers to English
10. Simple Sentence

2 Theory does Theory Does Dictate Teaching techniques and 1. Theory

not dictate a Dictate activities 2. Does not dictate a particular set of
particular set teaching techniques and activities.
of teaching 3. Simple present
techniques and 4. Does
activities. 5. Declarative Sentence
6. -
7. Active voice
8. Of
9.
 10. Simple Sentence

3 The quality of The quality of Will Improve Best 1. The quality of language teaching
language language teaching Improve 2. Will improve if teachers use the best
teaching will available approaches and methods
improve if 3. Simple future
teachers use 4. Will
the best 5. Declarative sentence
available 6. +
approaches 7. Active voice
and methods. 8. If
9.
10. Compound sentence
4 Concrete Concrete Was Taught 1. Concrete vocabulary
vocabulary Vocabulary Taught 2. Was taught through demonstration,
was taught objects, and pictures
through 3. Simple past
demonstration, 4. Was
objects, and 5. Declarative Sentence
pictures 6. +
7. Active Voice
8. And
9.
10. Simple Sentence
5 Abstract Abstract Was Taught 1. Abstract Vocabulary
vocabulary Vocabulary Taught 2. Was taught by association of ideas
was taught by 3. Simple past
association of 4. Was
ideas 5. Declarative Sentence
6. +
7. Active voice
8. By
9.
10. Simple Sentence