The In-service Methodology and Background Theory Diagnostic Test

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