The In-service Methodology and Background Theory Diagnostic Test

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