英语学科教学论试题

Information for the examinees:

This examination consists of THREE sections. They are:

Section I: Multiple-choice Questions (30 points, 20 minutes)

Section Ⅱ: Problem Solving (30 points, 50 minutes)

Section III: Mini-lesson Plan (40 points, 50 minutes)

The total marks for this examination are 100 points.

Time allowed for completing this examination is 2 hours.

Section I: Multiple-choice Questions（30 points）

Questions 1 -- 15 are based on this part.

Directions: Choose the best answer from A, B or C for each question. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.

1. Which of the following belongs to the communicative approach?

A. focus on accuracy

B. focus on fluency

C. focus on strategies

2. Which of the following is characteristic of acquisition?

A. form-focused

B. accuracy-oriented

C. meaning-focused

3. Which of the following statements about course design is NOT true?

A. The general goals of a course should be specified based on the learners’ needs.

B. The contents of a course should be selected to fit in with the learning experiences.

C. The assessment activities should reflect those taught in a course.

4. Which of the following generally does NOT describe a CLT syllabus?

A. The vocabulary and grammar structures needed for communicative objectives (e. g. telling directions, requesting information, expressing agreement, etc.).

B. The skills required in typical situations (e. g. listening, speaking or writing skills).

C. The grammar rule appropriate for social occasions (e. g. at a conference, at a party, in a grocery store, etc.)

5. Which of the following is most suitable for the cultivation of linguistic competence?

A. sentence-making

B. cue-card dialogue

C. simulated dialogue

6. Which of the following activities is most likely interactive?

A. mimicking

B. role play

C. problem solving

7. When a reader tries to guess the meaning of a new word based on the contextual clue, which one of the following approaches is he using?

A. Bottom-up Approach.

B. Top-down Approach

C. Interactive Approach.

8. When a researcher reads an academic paper to see if it is relevant to his field of interest, which one of the reading skills is he using?

A. Skimming.

B. Scanning.

C. Inferring.

9. Which of the following activities can be adopted at the pre-reading stage?

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A. re-arranging the materials

B. brainstorming the topic

C. writing a summary of the text

10. Which of the following activities can be used to get the main idea of a passage?

A. reading to decide on the title

B. reading to sequence the events

C. reading to fill in the charts

11. What should the teacher try to avoid when selecting listening materials?

A. The texts scripted and recorded in the studio.

B. The texts with implicated concepts beyond the comprehension of students.

C. The texts delivered through the accents other than RP or Standard American Pronunciation.

12. What purpose does NOT post-listening activities serve?

A. Helping students relate the text with their personal experience.

B. Offering students the opportunities of extending other language skills

C. Practicing students’ ability of matching the pre-listing predictions with contents of the text.

13. What does “locating the specific information” help to train?

A. scanning

B. skimming

C. inferring

14. Which of the following activities is best for training detailed reading?

A. drawing a diagram to show the text structure

B. giving the text an appropriate title

C. transferring information from the text to a diagram

15. For a teacher who teaches young learners English pronunciation, which principle is he suggested following?

A. Maximum quantity of spoken input.

B. Conscious effort.

C. Tolerance of errors in continuous speech.

Section II: Problem Solving （30 points）

Questions 16 -- 20 are based on this part.

Directions: Below are five situations in the classroom. Each has a problem. First, identify the problem. Second, provide your solution according to the communicative language teaching principles. You should elaborate on the problem(s) and solution(s) properly. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.

16. The following sequence of activities is what a teacher adopted in a reading class.

A. instruct the students to read aloud the text

B. explain paragraph by paragraph the new words or sentence structures

C. ask the students some comprehensive questions about the text

D. require the students to translate some Chinese sentences into English using the key words or sentence patterns

17. The following sequence of activities is what a teacher adopted in a speaking class.

A. write the topic for discussion on the blackboard

B. instruct the students to discuss the topic in groups

C. move from group to group correcting the students’ language errors whenever he catches them

D. express to the class his views on the topic

18. The teacher was playing the record of a speech. He stopped the tape whenever he felt the need to explain a word or provide some background information.

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