《英语教学法》 练习题 专升本

《英语教学法》练习题一专升本

一. Fill in the blanks.

1. Affective states of learners

For learners’affective states, anxiety is often talked about. There are three kinds of anxiety: Trait anxiety Personality, ___ (1) predisposition

State anxiety Experience at a ___ (2) moment in time as a response to a definite situation

Situational anxiety Aroused by a specific type of __ _ (3) or event such as public speaking, examinations or class participation

Anxiety can be both ___ (4) and ___ (5). Facilitating anxiety makes a learner to face problems, work out solution and overcome the problems. Debilitating anxiety may make a learner flee to avoid the source of anxiety. So the degree of anxiety should be balanced. Teachers need to think about this and take action in teaching.

2. Total Physical Response

TPR reveals ___ (6) or grammar-based views of language. According to Asher, the verb, especially the verb in the ___ (7), as the central linguistic motif around which language use and learning are organized.

The language learning theory in TPR is ___ （8). Learning is effective and meaningful through stimulus-response action.

The objective of a TPR course is to develop learners’ communicative ability through the use of___ (9) drills in the imperative form.

TPR syllabus is a ___ (10) one with teaching items of grammar and vocabulary. However, the focus is not on the structure, but on___ (11) in a way that grammar points and vocabulary items are selected according to__ (12) in which they are used.

The learning and teaching activities in TPR are imperative drills such as orders, commands or instructions, which are used to elicit __ (13) actions and activity on the learner.

TPR learners are listeners and __ (14). They are required to respond and monitor and evaluate their own progress.

The teacher in TPR is active, directing the classroom __ _ (15) and turn taking to make sure everything goes well.

二. Explain the following terms。

1. The Silent Way

2. Listening situations

3. The role of textbooks

4. Backwash

5. Language awareness

6. Summative assessment

三、填空题

1. The Silent Way

The Silent Way views language as a substitute for __ _ (1), so experience is what gives meaning to language. In the Silent Way teaching, tokens, picture charts or rods are used to stimulate experiences to promote learning.

The learning theory is on ___ (2) and experience. Learning is promoted through

self-discovery or self-exploration, through relating thinking and experiencing by using physical objects and through problem solving.

The general objective of the Silent Way is to develop learners’ near-native fluency, correct pronunciation and ___ (3) of the target language elements. Its immediate objective is

for learners to master grammar knowledge and learn how to learn through discovery grammar learning.

The syllabus is a__ _ (4) one with grammatical items and related vocabulary organized in lessons.

The major learning tasks and activities in the Silent Way are designed to encourage __ _ (5) responses from students to commands, questions, and visual cues.

Learners plays roles of being independent and __ (6) who take the responsibility to make ___ (7) and self-discoveries by working out conclusions on their own and by interacting with each other.The teacher has to __ (8) him/herself to be the main speaker in the class. The teacher encourages students to try, experiment and formulate rules and ideas. The teacher is also a judge who is fair and supportive.

2. Why do learners make mistakes and errors?

There is a lot of research on why learners make mistakes. The following are explorations from different perspectives.

Richards (1971) provides three reasons why learners make mistakes: __ _ (9) errors, _ __ (10) errors and__ _ (11) errors. Interference errors are also called_ __ (12) errors which refer to the use of elements from one language while speaking the other. Intralingual errors happen within one language, meaning a faulty __ _ (13), incomplete application and failure to learn conditions under which __ _ (14) apply. The last reason is about developmental errors. When learners are trying to build up _ __ (15) about the target language