Terminology in ELT

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Bringing a message from your mother into class as an example of an informal email is
1. contextualisation
2. audio visual aid use
3. the use of realia
4. a genre approach
Giving learners a test in order to put them in the right group is
1. attainment testing
2. proficiency testing
3. placement testing
4. diagnostic testing
Linguistic competence is
1. the ability to communicate in a language
2. the ability to speak comprehensibly
3. the ability to explain language structures
4. the ability to handle the structures and grammar of a language
ESP stands for
1. English for Specific Purposes
2. English for Scientific Purposes
3. English for Scholarly Purposes
4. English for Second-language Purposes
Language acquisition refers to
1. the careful study of language structures
2. the success of a learner in communication
3. learning a language by following a structured course
4. the almost unconscious 'picking up' of language
Behaviourists would argue that
1. learning a language involves a process of elimination.
2. language learning requires a focus on rules given by the teacher.
3. a language is learnt through forming habits.
4. language learners need to discover rules and apply them consciously.
Inductive learning requires learners to
1. supply the language for themselves
2. form accurate sentences according to a rule they have been given
3. deduce the rule from examples of the form
4. repeat the correct answer
If a learner reaches the level of competence which fulfils the reason for learning, no further progress is sometimes made. This is called
1. the acquisition-learning hypothesis
2. demotivation
3. interlanguage acceptability
4. fossilisation
In the statement 'I am going to London.', am, ing, to are
1. wasted
2. lexemes
3. redundant
4. functional words
Performance is distinguished from competence in that
1. the first refers to linguistic competence, the second to communicative competence.
2. the former is acquired, the latter learnt.
3. the latter refers to the actual language the learner can deploy.
4. the former refers to the actual language the learner can deploy.
The fact that the French word for 'information' is the same as the English word is an example of
1. negative language transfer
2. positive language transfer
3. language interference
4. the way English words are derived
Cognitive approaches often
1. require learners to figure out rules from examples of the language target
2. involve translation
3. focus on listen-and-repeat drilling
4. mean providing learners with rules and getting them to construct accurate sentences
Getting learners to provide the -ed or -d ending on regular verbs by giving the present tense and asking them to produce the past is an example of
1. a meaningful drill
2. a meaningless drill
3. a grammar-translation approach
4. a guided exercise
Over-generalisation is often the cause of error and it demonstrates
1. ignorance of rule restriction
2. non-systematic error
3. mistakes caused by inattention to a rule
4. the inability to learn a rule
How are errors are distinguished from mistakes?
1. The former refer to false production of the current targets, but the latter refer to slips caused by inattention or tiredness etc.
2. The former result in communication failure but the latter are only inaccuracies in structure.
3. The former are caused by over-generalisation of a rule, the latter by ignorance.
4. The latter refer to false production of the current targets, but the former refer to slips caused by inattention or tiredness etc.
Backwash refers to
1. learners having increased motivation if there is an examination to pass.
2. designing a syllabus focusing on the learners' needs.
3. designing a syllabus without reference to the learners' needs.
4. the effect an end-of-course test has on the teacher's aims for each lesson.
A Russian word for 'gambling' looks and sounds like the English word 'hazard'. This is an example of
1. a word's connotation rather than denotation
2. a false cognate
3. first-language facilitation
4. collocation
LT refers to
1. target language
2. this language
3. that language
4. third language
Illocutionary force refers to
1. redundancy
2. the speaker's intention in an interaction
3. the function of grammar
4. appropriacy
Giving learners a model paragraph and getting them to construct one along the same lines but containing different information is an example of
1. a controlled exercise
2. cue-card use
3. a guided exercise
4. drilling

Terminology in ELT

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