山东理工大学成人高等教育英语教学法复习题
Ⅰ. Explain the following terms.
1）Discourse competence
2）Mistake
3）Critical period hypothesis
4）Implicit knowledge
5）Sight vocabulary
6）Pragmatic competence
7）task
8）active vocabulary
9）Exercises
10）Denotative meaning (of a word)
Ⅱ.Fill in the blanks with proper words.
1. The elements that contribute to the qualities of a good language teacher can be categorized into three groups: ______________ , ________________ and _______________ .
2. Task-based language teaching has stressed the importance to combine _____________ teaching with __________ teaching.
3. Questions have been classified using different criteria. For example, it can be classified into _________ and open questions, display questions and _____________ questions, lower-order and _____________ questions.
4. There are two kinds of stress that are important to achieving good pronunciation. They are ________ stress and _________ stress.
5. In meaningful practice the focus is on ____________ , ___________ or ____________.
6. Our realistic goal of teaching pronunciation should be: ________ , _______ and _______.
7. Receptive / passive vocabulary refers to words that one is able to _____ and _____ in reading or listening but unable to _______ in speaking or writing.
8. Littlewood(1981:20)divides communicative speaking activities into two types: ____ activities and _______ activities.
9. The main purpose for reading aloud is to ______ with others while silent reading is for _____ or _______ information.
10. The most popul ar teaching stages are three P’s model, which include:_______,________, and___________.
11. The theory of learning is referred to as behaviorism, which has three major stages, “______________ , _____________and reinforcement”.
12. Grant (1987) designed a _____________ questionnaire, which can be used as checklist when teachers select textbooks for their students.
III. Judge the following statements true (T) or false (F).
( )1. The main aim of English language teaching is promoting the students “overall l anguage
ability”.
( )2. Students need to be able to write International Phonetic Alphabets. (IPA)
( )3. When the teacher joined the students, he should not dominate or appear to be authoritative.
( )4. Students need to be given detailed grammar rules if they are to learn a foreign language successfully.
( )5. The process approach to writing highlights accurate choice of words, complete sentence structure, paragraph organization and systematic model.
( )6. Languages consist of "words" with equivalents from one language to another.
( )7.When we read, our eyes are constantly moving from letter to letter, word to word and sentence to sentence.
( )8. When the structural view of language was combined with the stimulus-response principles of Behaviouristic psychology, TBLT emerged.
( )9. Portfolios may increase the workload of teachers and students, but if used properly, it shouldn‟t.
Ⅳ. Answer the following questions briefly.
1. How do you interpret bottom-up model for teaching reading?
2. What does it mean to know a word?
3. What does “structural view on language” advocates?
4. What do effective readers do?
5. What’s the cognitive theory of language learning?
6. What are the features of communicative language teaching?
7. What are the three steps in helping learners learn to use resources according to Ryan?
8. What are the seven intelligences proposed by Gardner? Can you explain them briefly?
9. What are the measures for indisciplined acts and badly behaving students suggested by Harmer?
