LANGUAGE LEARNING AND LANGUAGE TEACHING
Test 1
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE LEARN LANGUAGES
1. Which language has recently become the international language of communication?
a) English
b) German
c) French
d) Russian
2. What is a vital part of student’s identity and the means of communication?
a) all languages which student is learning
b) second language
c) first language
d) no right answer
3. What have all learners of foreign languages different, on what, teacher should pay special attention?
a) learning styles
b) expectations
c) first language
d) all variants are true
4. What is motivation?
a) a kind of internal drive that encourages somebody to pursue a course of action
b) a kind of action which can help learning languages
c) a method of teaching
d) a rich resource for the teacher to exploit
5. Extrinsic motivation corresponds…
a) to a short-term goals
b) to both of them
c) to a long-term goals
d) no right answer
6. Extrinsic motivation is divided into:
a) intrinsic and natural motivations
b) integrative and instrumental motivations
c) natural and complex motivations
d) integrative and complex motivations
7. Where takes instrumental motivation place?
a) when students believe that mastery of learning languages will help them in getting better job, position or status
b) when students have a desire to know as much as possible
c) when students get as less lessons as they can
d) when students wish to integrate themselves into the culture
8. Intrinsic motivation corresponds to…
a) to long-term goals
b) to short-term goals
c) to both of them
d) to life-term goals
9. What is a complex technique?
a) is a set of techniques adjusted to attain a certain methodological objective within a given teaching technology
b) is an elementary methodological action aimed at achieving a separate methodological task
c) is a set of techniques adjusted to attain a certain methodological objective
d) is an elementary methodological action for common school’s tasks
10. What is a simple technique?
a) is a set of techniques adjusted to attain a certain methodological objective within a given teaching technology
b) is an elementary methodological action aimed at achieving a separate methodological task
c) a kind of internal drive that encourages somebody to pursue a course of action
d) no right answer
11. What factors affect success of students learning a foreign language?
a) language, background knowledge, previous experiences, expectations
b) language, background knowledge, previous experiences, expectations and richness
c) language, background knowledge, previous experiences, expectations, learning styles and personal circumstances
d) language, background knowledge, expectations, learning styles
Test 2
GLOBAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AND LANGUAGE STUDENT`S COMMUNICATIVE EFFICIENCY
1. … is the ability to form illocution acts appropriately according to the context of communication.
a) discourse competence
b) linguistic competence
c) illocution competence
d) lingua-cultural competence
2. …is the ability to connect separate sentence into a discourse with the help of various syntactic and semantic means of cohesion.
b) discourse competence
c) linguistic competence
d) illocution competence
e) lingua-cultural competence
3. What is the main condition of effective communication?
a) GCC
b) GEC
c) CGC
d) EGC
4. Global communicative competence is common for … speakers.
a) foreign language
b) native language
c) British language
d) both native language and foreign language
5. Discourse is …
a) a relatively completed fragment of speech of any length expressing an idea of the speaker or the writer
b) a relatively completed fragment of speech of short length expressing an idea of the writer
c) a relatively completed fragment of speech
d) a relatively completed fragment of speech of short length expressing a fillings of the speaker
6. Pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary embraced by…
a) native speaker’s linguistic competence
b) foreign speaker’s linguistic competence
c) strategic competence
d) all of them
7. What competence is the dynamic processing mechanism, which puts all the other knowledge’s we have to real use?
a) linguistic competence
b) discourse competence
c) lingua – cultural competence
d) strategic competence
8. What is the level of attainment of teaching foreign language in school which involves the ability to use foreign language, speech skills, basic knowledge, the ability to achieve a communicative purpose, the capacity to make use of the school learning and the capacity to use authentic materials?
a) the level of CC
b) the level of CE
c) the level of EC
d) the level of EE
9. Mimics, gestures, proxemics and general body posture are…
a) verbal behavior
b) non – verbal behavior
c) under – verbal behavior
d) out – verbal behavior
10. What should any programme list of foreign language study have?
a) any programme of foreign language study should have lists of language to be taught; functions; vocabulary; themes, topics and the situations
e) any programme of foreign language study should have lists of language to be taught; functions; vocabulary; themes, topics and the situations; tasks and activities
f) any programme of foreign language study should have lists of language to be taught
g) any programme of foreign language study should have lists of functions; vocabulary; themes, topics and the situations; tasks and activities
Test 3
LANGUAGE LEARNING AND LANGUAGE TEACHING
1. The Direct method is…
a) consisted in giving students grammatical rules and paradigms and lists of vocabulary in the form of lexical items with their equivalents in L1
b) consists in presenting an oral model to the student on tape or in the teacher’s voice and carrying out a series of pattern drills based on the model
c) breaks language down into small grammar components and presents them in a strictly controlled sequence aimed to build language competence
d) the idea behind the method was that we learn L2 by hearing it spoken and engaging in conversation: reading and writing can be developed later
2. Which method is described bellow?
“It consists in presenting an oral model to the student on tape or in the teacher’s voice and carrying out a series of pattern drills based on the model”
a) the direct method
b) behaviorism
c) the grammar-translation method
d) the audio-lingual method
3. What was the idea behind the Direct method?
a) the idea behind the method was that we learn foreign language by hearing it spoken
b) the idea behind the method was that we learn foreign language by engaging in conversation
c) the idea behind the method was that we learn foreign language by hearing it spoken and engaging in conversation: reading and writing can be developed later
d) the idea behind the method was that we learn foreign language by reading and writing
4. The situational syllabus…
a) is widely used at the present time and a very large number of textbooks are based
b) takes into account the fact that language is always used in a social context, which influences meaning
c) breaks language down into small grammar components and presents them in a strictly controlled sequence aimed to build language competence
d) refers to a group of psychological theories that draw heavily on the work in linguistics of N. Chomsky
5. What effect does reward have?
a) reward has a negative effect
b) reward has a positive effect
c) reward has a neutral effect
d) reward has no effects
6. What is the Structural method?
a) it breaks language down into small grammar components and presents them in a strictly controlled sequence aimed to build language competence through knowledge andinteriorisation of the linguistic rules
b) consists in giving students grammatical rules and paradigms and lists of vocabulary in the form of lexical items with their equivalents in L1
c) consists in presenting an oral model to the student on tape or in the teacher’s voice and carrying out a series of pattern drills based on the model
d) the idea behind the method was that we learn L2 by hearing it spoken and engaging in conversation: reading and writing can be developed later
7. Cooperative learning is …
a) a collection of techniques, patterns and strategies for assisting effective communication
b) a teaching approach applied in a vast array of subjects
c) a teaching method that emphasizes learning about something rather than learning about language
d) focused on the student has also led to the development of learner training and self-directed programmers
8. What method does break language down into small grammar components?
a) the Grammar – translation method
b) the Structural method
c) the Direct method
d) the Structure – situational method
9. Students are asked to perform communicative activities in foreign language. What type of learning is described?
a) acquisition and learning
b) task – based learning
c) self – directed learning
d) cooperative learning
10. What sub – categories language output can be divided?
a) practice input and output
b) communicative input and output
c) practice output and communicative output
d) communicative output and output
Test 4