Methodology and Background Terminology

Multiple choice test

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Choose the best definition or example of the term.

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