Methodology and Background Terminology

Multiple choice test

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Choose the best definition or example of the term.

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