The big B’s
THE BIG B’S OF LANGUAGE LEARNING INFLUENCE
Classroom external
Birth – Native intelligence and aptitude
Bloom – Optimal biological period(s) for language learning
Background – Home and community past experience
Bath – Immersion in a second language situation
Badge – High status of second language in the community
Bridge – Desire of the learner to join a new culture
Bedroom – Language acquired from love partners
Bread – Financial rewards for language learning
Bullets – Physical threat for not learning a new language
By-product – Language learning in association with other important learning
Classroom internal
(Refer to methods and learner roles on the previous page for method abbreviations)
Brains – Requiring use of problem-solving, thinking capacities in connection with LL (SLT, CLT, SW, NA)
Breezy – Experiencing LL in a minimum stress, low affective filter environment (SW, TPR, CLL, NA, S)
Buddies – Undertaking LL with practice and support of partners (CLT, CLL)
Belonging – Being part of a supportive LL community (SW, CLL)
Biography – Building LL around personal details and interests of the learners (CLT, CLL)
Bugling – Providing attention calls and surprises to keep learners alert and interested (TPR, NA) ’,
Body – Involving physical as well as mental self (SW, TPR)
Bargaining – Creating situations in which language is used to negotiate meaning (CLT)
Baskets – Providing mental categories for sorting and remembering language learned (TPR, CLL, S)
Belief – Convincing learners of their LL success (CLL, NA, S)
Bluff – Creating opportunities for learners to demonstrate more language competence than they actually have (TPR, CLL, S)
Bounds – Setting LL goals which are clear, useful, and obtainable (CLT, NA)
Beyond – Oemonstrating out-of-class payoffs for LL (CLT, CLL)
Beat – Orchestrating language presentation and practice with rhythm (S)