Communicative Language Teaching test

Multiple-choice exercise

Choose the best answer for each question.
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  1. If you intend the meaning of "Dinner is on the table." to be "Please come and eat before it gets cold.", we are referring to the statement's ...
    1.   illocutionary force
    2.   communicative success
    3.   perlocutionary force
    4.   locutionary force
  2. If a teacher responds with "That's interesting. What don't you like about zoos?", he/she is ...
    1.   focusing on the form following 'because'.
    2.   giving constructive feedback.
    3.   using an elaborative technique.
    4.   taking account of affective factors.
  3. If a speaker refers to a waiter as 'sir', it's an indicator of poor ...
    1.   grammatical competence.
    2.   discourse competence.
    3.   strategic competence.
    4.   sociolinguistic competence.
  4. According to Chomsky ...
    1.   performance refers to the knowledge of language rules and competence to its deployment
    2.   performance refers to language produced and competence to our knowledge of structure and lexis
  5. In a communicative approach the sequencing of items on a syllabus is determined by ...
    1.   their difficulty.
    2.   their frequency.
    3.   their structural complexity.
    4.   their communicative value for the learners.
  6. The fundamental reason for using authentic texts in CLT is because such texts are ...
    1.   contextualised and meaningful.
    2.   rich and complex.
    3.   ungraded.
    4.   rich and meaningful.
  7. Tasks are widely used in CLT because ...
    1.   we need to set a real-life context for all language.
    2.   they can only be done through collaboration.
    3.   learning happens by doing and collaborative doing is even better.
    4.   learners don't feel threatened by them.
  8. Making sure our learners know to whom they are using the language and what the power relationship is between them and the hearer will help improve their ...
    1.   strategic competence.
    2.   grammatical competence.
    3.   sociolinguistic competence.
    4.   functional competence.
  9. Setting up tasks which demand the deployment of adjacency pairs is focused on ...
    1.   discourse competence
    2.   strategic competence
    3.   sociolinguistic competence
    4.   grammatical competence
  10. Who said, "There are rules of use without which the rules of grammar would be useless."?
    1.   Chomsky
    2.   de Saussure
    3.   Hymes