Methodology and Background Terminology

Multiple choice test

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Choose the best definition or example of the term.

  1. Notions
    1.   Getting things done in language
    2.   Ideas about language
    3.   Concepts such as length, availability, usefulness etc.
    4.   Ideas about the rules of the grammar
  2. Redundancy
    1.   Background noise when listening
    2.   Unnecessary language when talking too much
    3.   Irrelevant details
    4.   Giving the same information more than once
  3. Achievement test
    1.   A test designed to measure general language ability
    2.   A test of communicative ability
    3.   A test of how much has been learned
    4.   A test designed to apportion learners to learning groups
  4. 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
  5. Style
    1.   Appropriate language to maintain politeness
    2.   Accent and dialect
    3.   Variations in formality
    4.   The language of a professional context
  6. Concept-checking question
    1.   A question about an idea
    2.   A question requiring a relevant personal response
    3.   A form of communicative elicitation
    4.   A question concerned with testing understanding
  7. 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
  8. Discourse analysis
    1.   Looking at language structures in sentences
    2.   An investigation of interactions rather than transactions
    3.   Analysing speech
    4.   Looking at language structures in longer texts
  9. Skimming
    1.   Reading quickly to understand the kind of text it is
    2.   Reading for pleasure without understanding all the words
    3.   Reading quickly to locate specific information
    4.   Reading to find a single fact in a text
  10. 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 maintain social relationships
    4.   The use of language to communicate emotional states
  11. FLA
    1.   First Language Acquisition
    2.   First Learning Activity
    3.   Foreign Language Acquisition
    4.   First Language Appropriacy
  12. Affective filter
    1.   A hindrance to learning caused by negative emotional responses
    2.   A filter which aids learning focus
    3.   A hindrance to teaching caused by too much stress
    4.   A hindrance to learning caused by poor planning
  13. TTT
    1.   Teach - Talk - Test
    2.   Teacher Testing Times
    3.   Teach - Test - Test again
    4.   Test - Teach - Test
  14. Deductive learning
    1.   Learning by discovery
    2.   Using a rule to produce accurate language forms
    3.   Proceeding from the example to the rule
    4.   A testing approach to teaching
  15. 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
  16. Context
    1.   Where in a text a topic sentence comes
    2.   The words immediately before or following an item of vocabulary
    3.   The social setting in which language is used
    4.   The theme of a lesson
  17. PPP
    1.   Practice - Presentation - Production
    2.   Production - Practice - Presentation
    3.   Practice - Production - Presentation
    4.   Presentation - Practice - Production
  18. Prescriptive grammar
    1.   A grammar which explains how structures express meanings
    2.   A grammar which sets out the rules of speaking
    3.   A simplified grammar for use with learners
    4.   A grammar which seeks to say what is correct
  19. 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
  20. Adjacency pair
    1.   Greeting and leave taking
    2.   Introducing oneself
    3.   Apologising and offering help
    4.   Offering and accepting help