月全国自学考试试题外语教学法试卷

月全国自学考试试题外语教学法试卷

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全国2008年1月高等教育自学考试

外语教学法试题

课程代码：00833

Write all your answers on the Answer Sheet!

I. Multiple Choice: (15%)

Directions: In this section, you are given 15 questions, beneath each of which are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You are to make the best choice either to complete the incomplete statement or to answer the question. One point is given to each correct choice.

1. The goal of foreign language teaching is to help the student master the ________ language in the shortest possible time.

A. first

B. native

C. target

D. local

2. Franz Boas, an American structuralist, worked at the native languages and cultures of ________.

A. American Indians

B. African Americans

C. European Americans

D. Asian Americans

3. The major focus in a Grammar-Translation classroom is _________.

A. speaking and writing

B. listening and speaking

C. reading and speaking

D. writing and reading

4. The Direct Method emerged as a result of _______ in the 19th century.

A. classroom instruction

B. mass production

C. communicative needs

D. language teaching innovations

5. Which of the following is forbidden in a Direct Method classroom?

A. Using gestures.

B. Sketch drawing.

C. First language.

D. Writing.

6.In his book The Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages(1917), Palmer began with the question, “What is a _______?”

A. language

B. speech

C. sentence

D. word

7. Another name of the Audiolingual Method is ________.

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A. speaking approach

B. aural approach

C. listening method

D. aural-oral method

8. The Audiolingual Method considers language ability made up of ________ skills, and these skills can be taught separately.

A. three

B. four

C. five

D. six

9. The generative-transformational school of linguistics emerged through the influence of ________.

A. J.

B. Bruner B. N. Chomsky

C. D. Ausubel D. G. Kelly

10. The cognitive theory of learning as put forward by Ausubel is perhaps best understood by contrasting rote and _______ learning.

A. useful

B. practical

C. meaningful

D. advanced

11. In Krashen’s view, learning refers to the _______ process leading to the development of competence and is not dependent on the teaching of grammatical rules.

A. conscious

B. unconscious

C. overconscious

D. subconscious

12. The Communicative Approach to foreign language teaching stresses the communicative _______ in learning.

A. competence

B. ability

C. performance

D. skill

13. Sociolinguistic competence refers to an understanding of the ________ in which communication takes place.

A. social behavior

B. linguistic context

C. social context

D. linguistic performance

14. Who is the advocate of the Total Physical Response Method?

A. J. Asher

B.

C. Gattegno

C.C.A. Curran

D. G. Lozanov

15. In the 1970s, Krashen’s distinction between language acquisition and language learning and

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