中学英语教学法作业

《中学英语教学法》
1．第1题
A question that views on language learning involve is “____?”
A.What are the psycholinguistic and cognitive processes of language learning
B.Why do human beings have language
C.How a language is different from another
D.How do people use language when they have a desire to communicate
A
2．第2题
In the inductive method of teaching grammar, the teacher induces the learners to realise grammar rules ___.
A.by telling them the rules
B.by explaining in an explicit way
C.with explicit explanation
D.without any explicit explanation
D
3．第3题
In meaningful practice the focus is on the production, comprehension or exchange of ___.
A.structures
B.sentences
C.form
D.meaning
D
4．第4题
When teaching pronunciation, we should ___.
A.never use visual aids
e explanation rather than demo
e dictionaries to show the sounds
D.bring variety to the classroom, for example, show British & American pronunciation.
D
5．第5题
Which of the following activities would BEST help to prepare students for their real life speech in English?
A.Doing a drill
B.Learning a piece of text or dialogue by heart
C.Reading aloud
D.Interviewing someone, or being interviewed
D
6．第6题
It is believed that the way a language teacher learned a language will to some extent influence the way he or she
____.
A.learns a language
B.teaches a language
C.learns his mother tongue
D.obtains linguistic knowledge
B
7．第7题
From the sentence ‘When she came into the room, the large crowd grew silent’ the students may know that here ‘she’ must be a woman of power, e.g. a boss or a teacher. In this example, the students are making ___ when reading.
A.an inference
B.a reference
C.perception
D.production
A
8．第8题
Examples of pronunciation perception practice include ___.
ing pictures and tongue twisters
ing minimal pairs, and “Odd one out”
C.brainstorming and discussion
D.all of the above
B
9．第9题
According to Wang Qiang the while-listening stage is ___ for the teacher to control, because this is where the students need to pay attention and process the information actively.
A.the easiest
B.as easy as the pre-listening stage
C.as easy as the post-listening stage
D.the most difficult
D
10．第10题
One of the reasons why the deductive method is criticized is that ___ in the method.
nguage is taught in a context
B.much attention is paid to meaning
C.the practice is often mechanical
D.not enough explanation is provided
C
11．第11题
One of the reasons of providing the students with a variety of speaking activities is that the variety of activities helps ___.
A.keep motivation high
B.de-motivate students
C.memorise the speech
D.learn the dialogues by heart
A
12．第12题
When teaching grammar, if the teacher follows the sequence of teaching activities of “teacher’s presentation of an example → explanation of the rule → students’ practice with given prompts”, Professor Wang
Qiang would believe that the teacher is using the ___ method.
A.inductive
B.deductive
C.guided discovery
D.task-based
B
13．第13题
As far as learning pronunciation is concerned, the realistic goals for the students are consistency, intelligibility, and ___.
municative efficiency
B.accuracy
C.correctness
D.fastness
A
14．第14题
Natural language, spoken or written, uses referential word such as pronouns to refers to people or things already mentioned previously in the context. Therefore, the activity ‘understanding references’ can be performed in the ___ stage when teaching reading.
A.pre-reading
B.while-reading
C.post-reading
nguage-focus
B
15．第15题
When we are teaching pronunciation, ___ and intonation should be taught from the very beginning.
A.knowledge about sounds
B.phonetic rules
C.phonetic transcripts
D.stress
D
16．第16题
Look at the following activity in the classroom, and decide
what kind of practice it is.
Chain of events
Teacher: Now lets play a game. The first student starts a sentence with a second conditional clause. The next student takes the result of the sentence, reforms it into another condition and suggests a further result.
For example, the first student says, “If I had a million dollars, I would buy a yacht”. The second student says, “If I bought a yacht, I would go for a sail”. …
The students may come up with sentences like these: S3: If I went for a sail, there might be a storm.
S4: If there were a storm, my yacht would sink.
S5: If my yacht sank, I would die.
S6: If I died, my parents would cry.
S7: …
This is an example of ___.
A.mechanical practice
B.meaningful practice
bining mechanical practice and meaningful practice together
D.None of the above.
C
17．第17题
In teaching reading, if the teacher teaches the background knowledge first so that the students can be equipped with such knowledge and will be able to guess meaning from the printed page, we believe that this teacher is following ___ in his teaching.
A.the bottom-up model
B.the top-down model
C.the interactive model
D.all of the above
B
18．第18题
When an effective reader is doing silent reading, he or she may use skills such as deducing the meaning of unfamiliar lexical items, understanding references, ___, etc.
A.translating every sentence into the mother tongue
B.doing grammar analysis
C.reciting: i.e. memorizing every word
ing background information to help understand the text D
19．第19题
According to Wang Qiang, activities such as “Listen and tick”, “___”, “Listen and act”, “Listen and draw”, “Listen and guess”, “Listen and fill” can be performed
in the while-listening stage of teaching listening.
A.Listen and repeat
B.Listen and recite
C.Listen and sequence
D.None of the above
C
20．第20题
The concept of present, past and future time, the expressions of certainty and possibility, the roles of agents, instruments with a sentence, and special relationships between people and objects are examples of language ___.
A.functions
B.notions
C.structures
D.behavior
B
21．第21题
Communicative Competence consists of knowledge and
ability for___.
A.rules of rules of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar
B.rules of grammar/form and rules of language use
C.pronunciation, words, and grammar
D.speaking and writing
B
22．第22题
If we believe that when we are reading, our brain receives visual information and at the same time interprets or reconstruct the meaning, and that the reading process does not only involve the printed page but also the reader’s knowledge of the language in general, of the world and of the text types, we would follow the ___ in our teaching.
A.Bottom-Up Model
B.Top-Down Model
C.Interactive Model
D.all of the above
C
23．第23题
People have ____ understandings about languages learning.
A.different
B.similar
C.the same
D.no
A
24．第24题
The ___ of language sees language as a linguistic system
made up of various subsystems: the sound system (phonology), the discrete units of meaning produced by sound combinations (morphology), and the system of combining units of meaning for communication (syntax).
A.structural view
B.functional view
C.interactional view
D.behaviorist view
A
25．第25题
According to Littlewood (1981), discovering missing information, discovering missing features, and following directions are examples of ___.
A.mechanical practice
B.drilling language
C.functional communicative activities
D.social interaction activities
C
26．第26题
Hedge discusses five main components of communicative competence. These components inlude linguistic competence, pragmatic competence, discourse competence, strategic competence, and ___.
A.accuracy
B.fluency
C.correctness
D.grammaticality
B
27．第27题
In the traditional classroom, very often, too much attention has been paid to ___, with little or no attention
paid to practising language skills.
A.linguistic competence
B.linguistic knowledge
nguage use
nguage functions
B
28．第28题
Pre-reading activities include ___, setting the scene, skimming, and scanning.
A.predicting
rmation transfer activities
C.reading comprehension questions
D.reproducing the text
A
29．第29题
One of the problems in vocabulary learning is that students ___.
e context for their vocabulary learning
B.try hard to understand the words
C.treat vocabulary items indiscriminately
e a variety of vocabulary building strategies
C
30．第30题
When we ask the students to do predicting tasks in listening, we should let students read/hear the listening comprehension questions ___.
A.before they listen
B.while they are listening
C.after their listening
D.none of the above
A
31．第31题
According to the ___ there are a finite number of grammatical rules in the system and with knowledge of these rules an infinite number of sentences can be produced.
A.Behaviourist theory
B.Cognitive theory
C.structural view
D.functional view
B
32．第32题
Role-playing through cue dialogues, role-playing through situation and goals, and role-playing through debates or discussion are examples of ___.
A.mechanical practice
B.drilling language
C.pre-communicative activities
D.social interaction activities
D
33．第33题
According to Wang Qiang, pre-listening activities include predicting, setting the scene, listening for the gist, and ___.
A.learning new words
B.listening for specific information
C.learning new grammar
D.concluding
B
34．第34题
Jane Willis holds that the conditions for language
learning are exposure to a rich but comprehensible language put, ___ of the language to do things, motivation to process and use the exposure, and instruction in language.
A.chances
e
C.context
D.knowledge
B
35．第35题
Role-play, ___, and writing can be done at the post-reading stage when we are teaching reading.
A.retelling
B.skimming
C.scanning
D.predicting
A
36．第36题
According to the ___ theory of language learning, the key point of the theory of conditioning is that ‘you can train an animal to do anything (within reason) if you follow a certain procedure which has three major stages, stimulus, response, and reinforcement’ (Harmer, 1983:30).
A.structural
B.behaviorist
C.process-oriented
D.condition-oriented
B
37．第37题
In the traditional classroom, very often, too much attention has been paid to ___, with little or no attention paid to practising language skills.
A.linguistic competence
B.linguistic knowledge
nguage use
nguage functions
B
38．第38题
Explanation of phonetic rules should ___ at the beginning stage of teaching pronunciation.
A.always be adopted
B.take place
C.be emphasized
D.be avoided
D
39．第39题
Vocabulary building strategies outside classrooms include reviewing regularly, ___, organizing vocabulary effectively, and using a dictionary.
A.reciting the spelling
B.guessing meaning from the context
C.neglecting the meaning
D.remembering the translation
B
40．第40题
According to Cheng Xiaotang (in Wang Qiang, 2006), classroom activities can be classified into ____.
A.exercises, exercise-tasks and tasks
B.presenting new language items, time and learning culture
C.a purpose, a context, a process and a product/outcome
D.Pre-Task, Task Cycle and Language Focus
C
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41．第41题
In teaching reading, if the teacher uses the activities of pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading, based on the beliefs that, when we are reading, our brain receives visual information and at the same time interprets or reconstruct the meaning, and that the reading process does not only involve the printed page but also the reader’s knowledge of the language in general, of the world and of the text types, we would say that this teacher is following ___ in his teaching.
A.the bottom-up model
B.the top-down model
C.the interactive model
D.all of the above
B
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42．第42题
PPP and TBL are two approaches to language teaching. PPP stands for Presentation, Practice and Production and TBL stands for___.
A.Task Book Language
B.Text Book Learning
C.Teacher-Based Learning
D.Task-Based Learning
D
43．第43题
According to Wang Qiang, information-gap activities, problem-solving, ___, “Dialogues and role-plays”, and “Find someone who …” are some types of speaking tasks.
A.reading aloud in chorus
B.repeating what the teacher has said
C.reciting a dialogue
D.“Change the story”
D
44．第44题
Receptive skills of language include ___.
A.listening and reading
B.listening and speaking
C.reading and writing
D.speaking and writing
A
45．第45题
According to Wang Qiang, pre-listening activities include predicting, setting the scene, ___, and listening for specific information.
A.learning new words
B.learning new grammar
C.listening for the gist
D.concluding
C
46．第46题
In the traditional classroom, there is often too much focus on linguistic knowledge, with little or no attention paid to ___.
A.knowledge of vocabulary
B.knowledge of grammar rules
C.practising language skills
D.practising phonetics
C
47．第47题
Suppose a teacher is teaching his students to read a passage about two earthquakes in San Francisco, one in 1906 and the other in 1989. The teacher gives the students the following table, and asks them to fill the blanks with information they have got from the text.
Time
Date
Location
Number of people killed
Damage
Earthquake in 1906
Earthquake in 1989
This is an example of using ___ in teacher reading.
A.transition device
munication activities
rmation-gap activities
D.gist-getting device
A
48．第48题
Which of the following would you NOT agree with?
A.People have different experiences in learning a foreign language. Some find it e
B.People learn languages for different reasons.
C.People have different capacities in language learning.
D.People have the same understanding about language learning.
D
49．第49题
According to some scholars Task-based Language Teaching is, in fact, ___ Communicative Language Teaching.
A.exactly the same as
B.a further development of
C.opposite to
D.nothing to do with
B
50．第50题
The ultimate goal of foreign language teaching is to enable students to use the foreign language in work or life when necessary. Thus we should teach ___; and we should teach language in the way it is used in the real world.
A.that part of the language that will be used
B.all parts of the language
C.the language used in works of classical literature
D.spoken language only
A。