Methodology and Background Terminology

Multiple choice test

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Choose the best definition or example of the term.

  1. Context
    1.   The words immediately before or following an item of vocabulary
    2.   The social setting in which language is used
    3.   The theme of a lesson
    4.   Where in a text a topic sentence comes
  2. Redundancy
    1.   Giving the same information more than once
    2.   Unnecessary language when talking too much
    3.   Background noise when listening
    4.   Irrelevant details
  3. Adjacency pair
    1.   Offering and accepting help
    2.   Apologising and offering help
    3.   Introducing oneself
    4.   Greeting and leave taking
  4. Affective filter
    1.   A hindrance to learning caused by negative emotional responses
    2.   A hindrance to learning caused by poor planning
    3.   A filter which aids learning focus
    4.   A hindrance to teaching caused by too much stress
  5. Interaction
    1.   The use of language to get what you want
    2.   The use of language to achieve social services
    3.   The use of language to communicate emotional states
    4.   The use of language to maintain social relationships
  6. Style
    1.   Variations in formality
    2.   Appropriate language to maintain politeness
    3.   Accent and dialect
    4.   The language of a professional context
  7. TTT
    1.   Test - Teach - Test
    2.   Teach - Talk - Test
    3.   Teacher Testing Times
    4.   Teach - Test - Test again
  8. Inductive learning
    1.   Using a model sentence as a target to imitate
    2.   Using a rule to form accurate language structures
    3.   Proceeding from the examples to the formulation of a rule
    4.   Inferring the meaning of unknown words by looking at the co-text
  9. Aural
    1.   To do with speaking and understanding
    2.   To do with hearing and listening
    3.   To do with communication in real time
    4.   To do with speaking
  10. Discourse analysis
    1.   Looking at language structures in sentences
    2.   An investigation of interactions rather than transactions
    3.   Looking at language structures in longer texts
    4.   Analysing speech
  11. 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
  12. Notions
    1.   Ideas about language
    2.   Getting things done in language
    3.   Concepts such as length, availability, usefulness etc.
    4.   Ideas about the rules of the grammar
  13. Phonemic analysis
    1.   Transcribing English sounds
    2.   The study of sound patterns
    3.   The study of the connection between spelling and pronunciation
    4.   The study of the sounds of a specific language
  14. 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
  15. FLA
    1.   First Language Acquisition
    2.   Foreign Language Acquisition
    3.   First Language Appropriacy
    4.   First Learning Activity
  16. Cognition
    1.   Learning by imitation and repetition
    2.   Reacting emotionally to the content of a lesson
    3.   Responding to oral clues and cues
    4.   Remembering, recognising, inferencing, deducing, classifying
  17. PPP
    1.   Practice - Presentation - Production
    2.   Production - Practice - Presentation
    3.   Presentation - Practice - Production
    4.   Practice - Production - Presentation
  18. 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
  19. Prescriptive grammar
    1.   A grammar which seeks to say what is correct
    2.   A grammar which explains how structures express meanings
    3.   A grammar which sets out the rules of speaking
    4.   A simplified grammar for use with learners
  20. Achievement test
    1.   A test of how much has been learned
    2.   A test designed to apportion learners to learning groups
    3.   A test designed to measure general language ability
    4.   A test of communicative ability