However, they take less time because general education courses are not required. A degree program differs from certificates and diploma programs in that it often requires the student to take general education courses to support a more rounded education.
Eliciting (elicitation) is term which describes a range of techniques which enable the teacher to get learners to provide information rather than giving it to them. Commonly, eliciting is used to ask learners to come up with vocabulary and language forms and rules, and to brainstorm a topic at the start of a skills lesson.
To study the psychological processes involved one can compare the interlanguage utterances of the learner with two things: 1  Utterances in the native language (L1) to convey the same message produced by the learner. 2  Utterances in the target language (L2) to convey the same message, produced by a native speaker of that language.