The In-service Methodology and Background Theory Diagnostic Test

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  1. An acculturation model refers to:
    1.   the fact that learners who need to or can integrate with the target culture learn better.
    2.   how much a learner knows about the culture of the target language.
    3.   how learners see their own culture.
    4.   how learners can bring their own culture to the classroom.
  2. The term affordance refers to:
    1.   how much a learner is involved.
    2.   what the learner perceives as useful in an item.
    3.   how much a learner is willing to invest in training.
    4.   what a learner can already do.
  3. An agglutinating language will have:
    1.   a low morpheme to word ratio.
    2.   endings on words only showing case and tense.
    3.   very few inflexions.
    4.   a high morpheme to word ratio.
  4. An analytic or isolating language will have:
    1.   many tense endings.
    2.   a high morpheme to word ratio.
    3.   lots of compound verbs.
    4.   a low morpheme to word ratio.
  5. An approximative system is related to the concept of:
    1.   adjacency.
    2.   interlanguage.
    3.   overgeneralisation.
    4.   appropriacy.
  6. Avoidance is a kind of:
    1.   question evasion strategy.
    2.   testing strategy.
    3.   coping strategy.
    4.   facilitation tactic.
  7. A barrier test is designed to:
    1.   discover learners' strengths and weaknesses.
    2.   check a learner's aptitude for learning.
    3.   filter learners for admission to particular courses.
    4.   diagnose a learner's level.
  8. CLIL stands for:
    1.   Communicative Language in Cooperation.
    2.   Content and Language Integrated Learning.
    3.   Communication Level in Learning.
    4.   Class and Intelligence Interest.
  9. A cognate word is one which:
    1.   is similarly derived and related in meaning in the learner's first language.
    2.   forms a couplet.
    3.   is misleadingly similar in a learner's first language.
    4.   is always a false friend.
  10. Competence refers to:
    1.   linguistic ability.
    2.   communicative ability.
    3.   the speaker's internalised knowledge of the language.
    4.   what a person can say in a language.
  11. Construct validity describes:
    1.   how the test is perceived by the test taker.
    2.   whether a test really targets what the designer says it targets.
    3.   whether and how far a test will produce similar results to similar tests.
    4.   a test-setter's ability to identify what is being tested.
  12. Criterion referenced testing means:
    1.   measuring ability against a set of criteria.
    2.   grading learners in comparison to each other.
    3.   marking a test objectively.
    4.   setting a test that requires adherence to a set of criteria.
  13. The critical period hypothesis claims that:
    1.   language items must be introduced only when the learner is ready to process them.
    2.   language is acquired not learned.
    3.   children learn faster than adults.
    4.   language cannot be fully acquired after a certain age.
  14. A distractor is:
    1.   a poorly written test rubric.
    2.   a wrong answer in a multiple-choice test.
    3.   an impediment to noticing language items.
    4.   an impediment to comprehension of a reading or listening text.
  15. Encyclopaedic knowledge refers to:
    1.   what a teacher needs to know.
    2.   what a person knows about the world in general.
    3.   what people know about each other.
    4.   what a learner is expected to know about the language.
  16. Facilitation refers to:
    1.   the ways in which speakers can make their messages easier to understand.
    2.   making things simpler in tests.
    3.   scaffolding learners' efforts.
    4.   operating in the Zone of Proximal Development.
  17. Guided discovery is closely related to:
    1.   inductive learning.
    2.   task-based learning and teaching.
    3.   structural linguistics.
    4.   deductive learning.
  18. Shielding devices:
    1.   protect the writer from accusations of too much certainty.
    2.   protect learners from feelings of insecurity.
    3.   are a way of rebutting criticisms.
    4.   disguise the writer's intentions.
  19. Innateness theory claims that:
    1.   all languages are innate.
    2.   the ability to learn a language is genetically determined.
    3.   learning ability is genetically determined.
    4.   people learn by imitation.
  20. Interference refers to:
    1.   the effect of background noise or indistinctness in terms of listening comprehension.
    2.   the effect of poorly timed error correction.
    3.   the negative effect of a learner's first language(s) on the learning of a target language.
    4.   the effect of unknown vocabulary items blocking comprehension.
  21. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis refers to:
    1.   the claim that language is best learned through interactions with native speakers.
    2.   the claim that people's first languages determine the nature of their thoughts.
    3.   the claim that all languages have the same basic structural building blocks.
    4.   the assumption that language acquisition requires a cognitive commitment.
  22. The term lexicon refers to:
    1.   the possible words which can be constructed from the language's morphemes.
    2.   the way in which words are stored and retrieved from memory.
    3.   dictionary entries.
    4.   a learner’s total knowledge of words in a language.
  23. Metalanguage is:
    1.   circumlocution.
    2.   asking for clarification and repetition.
    3.   a learner's use of invented or first-language words to help production.
    4.   the language we use to talk about language.
  24. Mode of discourse refers to:
    1.   the medium of communication which is used.
    2.   the nature of the verbal processes which are involved in a text.
    3.   the relationship between hearer and speaker and / or reader and writer.
    4.   the topic area in which language is produced.
  25. Monitor listening is the equivalent in listening of:
    1.   extensive reading.
    2.   scanning.
    3.   intensive reading.
    4.   skimming.
  26. The natural approach is:
    1.   a communicative approach focused on natural conversation.
    2.   another term for direct method.
    3.   a teaching approach based on a theory of how people acquire their first language(s).
    4.   an approach similar to Dogme which focuses on emergent language.
  27. Noticing the gap consists of:
    1.   making yourself aware of language form and function.
    2.   comparing what you see and hear with what you produce.
    3.   being alert to how things are pronounced.
    4.   testing learners through a Cloze test procedure.
  28. A notional syllabus focuses on:
    1.   strategic communicative competence.
    2.   cognitive theories of learning.
    3.   language used to express fundamental concepts.
    4.   adjacency pairs.
  29. Overgeneralisation is also referred to as:
    1.   assuming an item will be irregular.
    2.   ignorance of rule restriction.
    3.   U-shaped learning.
    4.   failing to hedge appropriately.
  30. Problematising is also referred to as:
    1.   noticing.
    2.   making tests at the right level.
    3.   the garden path approach.
    4.   task-based learning and teaching.
  31. A procedural syllabus focuses on:
    1.   presentation before production.
    2.   situations in which language may be used.
    3.   tasks to be accomplished.
    4.   writing skills.
  32. Register refers to:
    1.   the level of formality.
    2.   the field of interest in which language occurs.
    3.   the roles of the participants in communication.
    4.   the relationship between speaker and listener.
  33. Reliability is:
    1.   a measure of how easy a test is to mark.
    2.   a measure of how well a test focuses on the aims of a teaching programme.
    3.   a measure of how practical a test is to administer.
    4.   a measure of how trustworthy a test is.
  34. Schemata are:
    1.   various types of encyclopaedic knowledge.
    2.   mental frameworks in which information is ordered and classified.
    3.   skeleton completion tests.
    4.   conversational frames.
  35. Bloom's taxonomy concerns:
    1.   multiple intelligence theory.
    2.   learning styles.
    3.   cognitive modes.
    4.   educational objectives.
  36. In genre theory, tenor of discourse is determined by:
    1.   the intentions of the participants in an interaction rather than transaction.
    2.   the use of intonation and stress.
    3.   the mode of communication.
    4.   the relationship between the speaker / writer and the hearer / reader.
  37. A topic sentence:
    1.   is one in which the object is raised to the subject position.
    2.   refers anaphorically to the paragraph's contents.
    3.   sets out the theme of the paragraph.
    4.   sets out the rheme of the paragraph.
  38. ZPD stands for:
    1.   Zone of Proximal Development.
    2.   Zigzag Personal Development.
    3.   Zoned Pedagogical Determiners.
    4.   Zero Potential Digression.
  39. A test which asks learners to select either True or False is:
    1.   ... a subjective item test.
    2.   ... a multiple choice test.
    3.   ... an alternative answer test.
    4.   ... a discrete item test.
  40. Audio-lingualism draws on:
    1.   functional analysis of language and behaviourist theories of learning.
    2.   notional analysis of language and behaviourist theories of learning.
    3.   structural linguistic analysis of language and behaviourist theories of learning.
    4.   structuralist analysis of language and cognitivist theories of learning.
  41. Authenticity is of two types which are:
    1.   absolute and relative authenticity.
    2.   text and purpose authenticity.
    3.   true and quasi-authenticity.
    4.   quasi- and semi-authenticity.
  42. The effect that the construction and content of a test or examination has on the content and activities of a teaching programme is known as:
    1.   backwash.
    2.   backchaining.
    3.   reductive teaching.
    4.   backchannelling.
  43. Community Language Learning is based on:
    1.   transactional theory.
    2.   theories of counselling.
    3.   communicative motivation.
    4.   structural linguistics.
  44. CALL stands for:
    1.   Cognitively Advanced Language Learning.
    2.   Communicatively Adjusted Language Lessons.
    3.   Competence Acquisition Language Learning.
    4.   Computer Assisted Language Learning.
  45. Contrastive analysis involves:
    1.   the difference between two closely related lexemes.
    2.   the differences between two language structures.
    3.   the differences between groups of learners.
    4.   similarities and differences between languages.
  46. Conversational analysis is:
    1.   another term for discourse analysis.
    2.   the analysis of turn-taking skills.
    3.   a branch of functional linguistics.
    4.   an approach to the study of social interaction concerned with verbal and non-verbal behaviours.
  47. A descriptive grammar may be contrasted most accurately with:
    1.   a prescriptive grammar.
    2.   a functional grammar.
    3.   a pedagogic grammar.
    4.   a structural grammar.
  48. EOP stands for:
    1.   English to Other People.
    2.   English for Other Purposes.
    3.   English for Occupational Purposes.
    4.   English Otherwise Produced.
  49. Instrumental motivation refers to:
    1.   learning a language to access literature and culture.
    2.   learning a language for pleasure.
    3.   learning a language to fit in with the target culture.
    4.   learning a language to achieve other aims.
  50. This is the last question. Make a note of your score now.
    Expectancy theory involves:
    1.   the ways in which the language can be used in expected situations.
    2.   the value of the outcome, the learner's expectation of being able to learn the targets and the likelihood of success.
    3.   the enjoyability of the process, the learner's expectation of being able to learn the targets and the likelihood of success.
    4.   the instrumentality of the outcomes of learning.