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