全国2009年10月高等教育自学考试外语教学法试题

全国2009年10月高等教育自学考试外语教学法试题
课程代码:00833

I. Multiple Choices: (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. ______ is the author of the book Syntactic Structures.
A. Edward Sapir
B. Noam Chomsky
C. J. R. Firth
D.M.A.K. Halliday

2. The ultimate goal of learning a foreign language in a Grammar-Translation classroom is to enable the students to ______ its literature.
A. translate and write
B. read
C. read and write
D. read and translate

3. ______ can be introduced as a means of consolidation and evaluation in the Direct Method.
A. Reading
B. Listening
C. Speaking
D. Writing

4. The Audiolingual Method, the American approach to the teaching of English as a second language, had become Audiolingualism by the ______.
A. mid-1950s
B. late 1950s
C. mid-1940s
D. late 1940s

5. The generative-transformational school of linguistics emerged through the influence of ______.
A. Noam Chomsky
B.J. Piaget
C. D. Ausubel
D.J.B. Bruner

6. According to Palmer and some other linguists of his time, ______ played one of the most important roles in foreign language learning.
A. grammar
B. phonetics
C. vocabulary
D. rhetoric

7. Some linguists thought that all languages ______ and were ruled by a common grammar.
A. originated from one language
B. started as the same language
C. came from many different languages
D. borrowed words from one another

8. In Malinowski’s opinion, an utterance has no ______ at all if it is out of the context of situation.
A. form
B. meaning
C. content
D. format

9. Which of the following is NOT found in the language teaching methodology Palmer and Hornby worked out?
A. practically workable
B. theoretically well-graded
C. intellecturally ordered
D. structurally grammar-based

10. The Audiolingual Method separates language skills into listening, speaking, reading and writing with emphasis on the teaching of ______.
A. listening and speaking after reading and writing
B. listening and reading before speaking and writing
C. listening and writing after speaking and reading
D. listening and speaking before reading and writing

11. ______ is the process by which we modify what we already know to take into account new information.
A. Organization
B. Accommodation
C. Comprehension
D. Assimilation

12. According to the Natural Approach, ______ is not absolutely essential for language acquisition.
A. writing
B. reading
C. speaking
D. listening

13. The Natural Approach believes that the teaching of ______ should be delayed until comprehension skills are established.
A. listening
B. speaking
C. reading
D. writing

14. ______ refers to the interpretation of inspanidual message elements in terms of their interconnectedness and of how meaning is represented in relationship to the text.
A. Grammatical competence
B. Sociolinguistic competence
C. Discourse competence
D. Strategic competence

15. Like Curran, Lozanov also recognized the need to involve the ______ in the learning process.
A. mental activity
B. code-learning
C. physical response
D. whole person 

II. Filling Blanks: (20%)
Directions: In this section there are 20 statements with 20 blanks. You are to fill in each blank with ONE appropriate word. One point is given to each blank.
16. In the Grammar-Translation Method, the teaching materials are arranged according to ______ system.
17. In applying the Oral Approach, with the target language as the language of the classroom, translation should be ______.
18. The Total Physical Response method is a language teaching method which attempts to teach language through ______ activities.
19. The ______ i + 1, put forward by Krashen, means input that contains structures slightly above the learner's present level.
20. ______ is particularly interested in the relationship between sentences and the contexts and situations in which they are used.
21. Behaviorism believes that basic learning processes could be described in terms of ______ and responses.
22. In the Direct Method, the target language is used ______ in the language classroom as a means of instruction and communication.
23. The Audiolingual Method, known variously as the ______ Approach and the Structural Approach, influenced the way languages were taught in the US and elsewhere in the world throughout the 1950s.
24. The learning the

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