Methodology and Background Terminology

Multiple choice test

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Choose the best definition or example of the term.

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