Methodology and Background Terminology

Multiple choice test

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Choose the best definition or example of the term.

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