Methodology and Background Terminology

Multiple choice test

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Choose the best definition or example of the term.

  1. Adjacency pair
    1.   Greeting and leave taking
    2.   Offering and accepting help
    3.   Introducing oneself
    4.   Apologising and offering help
  2. FLA
    1.   Foreign Language Acquisition
    2.   First Language Appropriacy
    3.   First Learning Activity
    4.   First Language Acquisition
  3. Aural
    1.   To do with communication in real time
    2.   To do with speaking
    3.   To do with speaking and understanding
    4.   To do with hearing and listening
  4. Prescriptive grammar
    1.   A grammar which sets out the rules of speaking
    2.   A grammar which seeks to say what is correct
    3.   A grammar which explains how structures express meanings
    4.   A simplified grammar for use with learners
  5. PPP
    1.   Practice - Presentation - Production
    2.   Production - Practice - Presentation
    3.   Practice - Production - Presentation
    4.   Presentation - Practice - Production
  6. Deductive learning
    1.   Using a rule to produce accurate language forms
    2.   Learning by discovery
    3.   Proceeding from the example to the rule
    4.   A testing approach to teaching
  7. TTT
    1.   Teacher Testing Times
    2.   Test - Teach - Test
    3.   Teach - Talk - Test
    4.   Teach - Test - Test again
  8. Context
    1.   The theme of a lesson
    2.   Where in a text a topic sentence comes
    3.   The social setting in which language is used
    4.   The words immediately before or following an item of vocabulary
  9. Affective filter
    1.   A hindrance to learning caused by poor planning
    2.   A hindrance to learning caused by negative emotional responses
    3.   A hindrance to teaching caused by too much stress
    4.   A filter which aids learning focus
  10. Skimming
    1.   Reading for pleasure without understanding all the words
    2.   Reading quickly to locate specific information
    3.   Reading to find a single fact in a text
    4.   Reading quickly to understand the kind of text it is
  11. Phonemic analysis
    1.   Transcribing English sounds
    2.   The study of the connection between spelling and pronunciation
    3.   The study of sound patterns
    4.   The study of the sounds of a specific language
  12. Interaction
    1.   The use of language to get what you want
    2.   The use of language to communicate emotional states
    3.   The use of language to maintain social relationships
    4.   The use of language to achieve social services
  13. Style
    1.   Accent and dialect
    2.   The language of a professional context
    3.   Variations in formality
    4.   Appropriate language to maintain politeness
  14. Achievement test
    1.   A test designed to apportion learners to learning groups
    2.   A test of how much has been learned
    3.   A test designed to measure general language ability
    4.   A test of communicative ability
  15. Redundancy
    1.   Giving the same information more than once
    2.   Background noise when listening
    3.   Irrelevant details
    4.   Unnecessary language when talking too much
  16. Cognition
    1.   Remembering, recognising, inferencing, deducing, classifying
    2.   Reacting emotionally to the content of a lesson
    3.   Responding to oral clues and cues
    4.   Learning by imitation and repetition
  17. Notions
    1.   Ideas about language
    2.   Ideas about the rules of the grammar
    3.   Concepts such as length, availability, usefulness etc.
    4.   Getting things done in language
  18. Inductive learning
    1.   Using a rule to form accurate language structures
    2.   Inferring the meaning of unknown words by looking at the co-text
    3.   Using a model sentence as a target to imitate
    4.   Proceeding from the examples to the formulation of a rule
  19. Discourse analysis
    1.   Looking at language structures in longer texts
    2.   An investigation of interactions rather than transactions
    3.   Analysing speech
    4.   Looking at language structures in sentences
  20. Concept-checking question
    1.   A question about an idea
    2.   A form of communicative elicitation
    3.   A question requiring a relevant personal response
    4.   A question concerned with testing understanding