Methodology and Background Terminology

Multiple choice test

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Choose the best definition or example of the term.

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