Methodology and Background Terminology

Multiple choice test

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Choose the best definition or example of the term.

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