1 English Language Teaching Methodology Test (A) I. Multiple Choices (30%) Directions: In this part, you are given fifteen questions or incomplete sentences which are followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Read the choices carefully and choose the one which can best answer the question or complete the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter on the Answ er Sheet for the objective items (30 points; 2 points each). 1. The _________ view of language considers language as a communicative tool, whose main use is to build up and maintain social relations between people. A. structural B. functional C. mentalist D. interactional 2. The key point of is reflected in his most famous question: if all language is a learned behavior, how can a child produce a sentence that has never been said by others before? A. Skinner’s behaviorist theory B. Chomsky’s cognitive theory C. Watson and Raynor’s theory of conditioning D. Hymes’s theory of communicative competence 3. Which one of the four aspects included in communicative competence is roughly equivalent to Chomsky’s linguistic competence? A. possibility B. feasibility C. appropriateness D. performance 4. Which of the following statement about task-based language teaching is NOT true? A. Students should be given tasks to perform or problems to solve in the classroom. B. Students are task-driven. C. Task-based language teaching is student-centered. D. Task-based language teaching follows the PPP model. 5. Which of the following is most suitable for speaking? A. TPR actions. B. Recognizing pictures. C. Information-gap activities. D. Matching pictures with descriptions. 6. One of the major principles behind good lesson planning is , which means the content...
