西南大学《中学英语教学法》复习思考题及答案

（0161）《中学英语教学法》复习思考题

一、判断正误题（8分）

The following statements are about the facts presented in the textbook, please indicate in the brackets before the statements whether they are true( T ) or ( F ).

( ) 1. Role play and improvisation are social interaction activities.

( ) 2. Discovering missing information and discovering differences and following directions are all functional communicative activities.

( ) 3. Stress in pronunciation is sometimes as important as grammar.

( ) 4. Students need to be able to write phonetic transcripts of words.

( ) 5. Adult learners need to focus on pronunciation, but young learners don‟t.

( ) 6. Students need to know phonetics in order to learn English.

( ) 7. Students need to be given detailed grammar rules if they are to learn a foreign language successfully.

( ) 8. If the students get enough chance to practise using a foreign language, they do not need to learn grammar.

( ) 9. Teaching and learning grammar should focus on practice rather than the study of grammar itself.

( ) 10. Grammar should be taught an practised in context.

( ) 11. The best way to explain vocabulary is to translate.

( ) 12. Words must be learned in language contexts.

( ) 13. Knowing a word means that you know the pronunciation and meaning of it.

( ) 14. Students‟ errors are a very useful way of showing what they have and have not lear nt. So instead of seeing errors negatively, as a sign of failure, we see them positively as an indication of what we still need to

teach.

( ) 15. Testing implies evaluation based on a collection of information about what students know and can do.

( ) 16. Classroom climate is strongly affected by the teachers‟ attitude and behaviour.

( ) 17. In the Communicative Approach, a teacher is described as an “instructor” and students as “listeners” in class.

( ) 18. The students‟ native language has no particular role in the Communicative Approach. The target language should be used not only during communicative activities, but also in explaining the activities to the

students or in assigning homework.

( ) 19. Words which we want students to understand, but which they will not need to use themselves. We call this passive vocabulary.

( ) 20. Students‟ errors are a sign of failure, so we must correct every mistake they make.

( ) 21. Culture is received greater attention in the Communicative Approach.

( ) 22. Spoken language is generally produced in informal, simple or common

vocabulary.

() 23. All new words in a lesson are equally important.

( ) 24.Classroom climate is strongly affected by both the teachers‟ attitude and the students‟ behavior.

( ) 25. V ocabulary can be divided into productive and receptive.

( ) 26. Communicative competence refers to knowledge of the grammar and vocabulary of the language.

( ) 27. Post-reading work usually contributes to the development of all the language skills and may involve using other skills than just reading.

( ) 28. Written language is generally produced in fairly simple sentence structures.

( ) 29. In the Communicative Approach, both teachers and students have multiple roles.