Methodology and Background Terminology

Multiple choice test

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Choose the best definition or example of the term.

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