全国2010年1月高等教育自学考试
外语教学法试题
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I. Multiple Choices: (20%)
Directions: In this section, you are given 20 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. Most of the teaching activities in a Grammar-Translation classroom serve the purpose of mastering _______.
A. vocabulary
B. grammatical rules
C. skill of reading
D. skill of writing
2. _______ was the first teaching method to have a theory, making language teaching possible to large groups of learners.
A. The Cognitive Approach
B. The Audiolingual Method
C. The Oral Approach
D. The Direct Method
3. In a Total Physical Response classroom, the students listen attentively and respond _______ to commands given by the teacher.
A. physically
B. quickly
C. correctly
D. actively
4. One of the five points initiated by David Nunan to characterize the Communicative Approach is an emphasis on learning to communicate through _______ in the target language.
A. speaking
B. writing
C. interaction
D. role-play
5. Which of the following is forbidden in a Direct Method classroom?
A. Using gestures.
B. Sketch drawing.
C. First language.
D. Writing.
6. Chomsky and others claimed that every normal human being was born with a/an _______.
A. LDA
B. ADL
C. LAD
D. DLA
7. English teaching in China didn’t enter into the formal educational system until the _______ century.
A. late 19th
B. early 20th
C. mid-20th
D. late 20th
8. Krashen advocates that 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
9. Franz Boas, a representative of American structuralism, made a thorough study of the native languages and cultures of American _______ which were to be extinct.
A. Indians
B. Asians
C. Africans
D. Spaniards
10. Dianysius Thrax classified all the words of the Greek language into _______ parts of speech.
A.6
B. 8
C. 9
D. 10
11. According to the acquisition-learning hypothesis, speakers are not concerned with language form, but with _______.
A. fluency
B. accuracy
C. meaning
D. correctness
12. In the Grammar-Translation Method, the teaching materials are arranged according to a _______ system.
A. language
B. content
C. logic
D. grammar
13. Palmer’s book, The Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages (1917), began with the question, “What is a _______?”
A. language
B. speech
C. sentence
D. word
14. Who first used the term “communicative competence” in deliberate contrast to Chomsky’s “linguistic competence”?
A. Stern.
B. Asher.
C. Krashen.
D. Hymes.
15. The Cognitive Approach insists that learning should be _______.
A. grouped
B. structured
C. paralleled
D. practiced
16. Language samples, according to structural linguistics, can be exhaustively described at any _______ level.
A. paragraph
B. sentence
C. lexical
D. structural
17. Two indispensable parts of the Communicative Language Teaching are supposed to be _______.
A. presentations and pragmatics
B. discourse analysis and drills
C. discourse analysis and pragmatics
D. drills and presentations
18. According to D. Ausubel, the principal function of _______ is to act as a bridge between what learners already know and what they need to know.
A. schema theory
B. language acquisition device
C. language competence
D. advance organizers
19. The syllabus used in the Direct Method is arranged semantically according to _______.
A. situations or topics
B. textbooks or materials
C. ideas or concepts
D. students or learners
20. In the views of language suggested by J. R. Firth and M. A. K. Halliday, which of the following does NOT receive the priority importance?
A. Meaning.
B. Context.
C. Setting.
D. Form.
