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.   locutionary force
    2.   communicative success
    3.   illocutionary force
    4.   perlocutionary force
  2. If a teacher responds with "That's interesting. What don't you like about zoos?", he/she is ...
    1.   giving constructive feedback.
    2.   focusing on the form following 'because'.
    3.   taking account of affective factors.
    4.   using an elaborative technique.
  3. If a speaker refers to a waiter as 'sir', it's an indicator of poor ...
    1.   strategic competence.
    2.   grammatical competence.
    3.   discourse competence.
    4.   sociolinguistic competence.
  4. According to Chomsky ...
    1.   performance refers to language produced and competence to our knowledge of structure and lexis
    2.   performance refers to the knowledge of language rules and competence to its deployment
  5. In a communicative approach the sequencing of items on a syllabus is determined by ...
    1.   their frequency.
    2.   their communicative value for the learners.
    3.   their structural complexity.
    4.   their difficulty.
  6. The fundamental reason for using authentic texts in CLT is because such texts are ...
    1.   ungraded.
    2.   rich and meaningful.
    3.   rich and complex.
    4.   contextualised and meaningful.
  7. Tasks are widely used in CLT because ...
    1.   they can only be done through collaboration.
    2.   learners don't feel threatened by them.
    3.   learning happens by doing and collaborative doing is even better.
    4.   we need to set a real-life context for all language.
  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.   functional competence.
    2.   strategic competence.
    3.   grammatical competence.
    4.   sociolinguistic competence.
  9. Setting up tasks which demand the deployment of adjacency pairs is focused on ...
    1.   grammatical competence
    2.   strategic competence
    3.   discourse competence
    4.   sociolinguistic 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