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Ⅰ. Multiple Choice: (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. Which of the following is NOT emphasized by traditional linguists?

A. Correctness.

C. Literary excellence.

B. The purity of a language.

D. Communication.

2. _______ the first language is used in the teaching of the second language in the

Grammar-Translation Method.

A. A lot of

C. Little of

B. A little of

D. Not any

3. According to the Direct Method, every language has _______ structure.

A. similar

C. co-related

B. its own

D. the same

4. The Direct Method _______ the similarities between the first language acquisition and second

language learning.

A. is against

C. draws on

B. overemphasizes

D. pays no attention to

5. Advocates of the Direct Method consider students’ mother tongue as _______ system in

learning the second language.

A. an interfering

C. an integrating

B. a helping

D. a similar

6. In order to find ways of associating the new materials with ideas or objects with which the

pupils are familiar, D. Ausubel would prefer _______.

A. straightforward explanation and exposition B. pupil-generated discovery methods

C. rote learning D. inductive and deductive inference

7. Of the three procedures followed in a cognitive classroom, which can be viewed as the

performance stage?

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A. Exercises.

C. Introduction of new materials.

B. Application activities.

D. None of the above.

8. Chomsky and others claimed that every normal human being was born with a(n) _______.

A. ADL

C. LAD

B. LDA

D. ALD

9. The authors of the book The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom are

_______.

A. Chomsky and Terrell

C. Krashen and Terrell

B. Krashen and Halliday

D. Chomsky and Krashen

10. The formula i+1 put forward by Krashen means input that contains structures _______ the

learner’s present level.

A. greatly above

C. somewhat above

B. greatly below

D. somewhat below

11. According to the affective filter hypothesis, which of the following is NOT an affective

variable related to second language acquisition?

A. Motivation.

C. Anxiety.

B. Self-confidence.

D. Vocabulary.

12. Which one of the following activities is NOT included in the acquisition activities in the

Natural Approach?

A. Affective-humanistic activities.

C. Skill-getting activities.

B. Problem-solving activities.

D. Content activities.

13. In the classroom, the 3DA emphasizes _______.

A. student’s own responsibility of learning

C. practice and test

B. teachers’ active role

D. practice and consolidation

14. From the mid-1970s the key concept in educational linguistics and language pedagogy is that

of _______.

A. commnication or communicative competence

B. motivation in learning a foreign language

C. independence and autonomy in learning

D. language acquisition through the use of active trial

15. What do the three approaches (the Silent Way, Community Language Learning, and

Suggestopaedia) have in common?

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A. All stress the intrusion of the teacher into the learning process.

B. All lay emphasis on the individual and on personal learning strategies.

C. All view the learning of a second language the same as the learning of the first.

D. All three are deductive in the initial stage of the language learning process.

Ⅱ.Filling Blanks: (20% )

Directions: In this section there are 15 statements with 20 blanks. You are to fill each blank

with ONE appropriate word. One point is given to each blank.

16. When discussing the rule of language, traditional linguists tended to take a _______ approach.

17. In the fifth century B.C., the ancient Greeks began to make a serious study of language in the

realm of _______.

18. Leonard Bloomfield’s book Language was once considered the _______ of linguistics.

19. The most important factor that made cognitive psychology dominant in the world is the

development of the _______ technology.

20. Chomsky made the _______ between linguistic competence and linguistic performance.

21. According to some functional linguist, some utterance has no meaning at all if it is out of the

context of _______.

22. Stephen Krashen holds that acquisition and learning have different _______ in the

communication activities.

23. The relationship between the grammatical forms and their functions is not a _______

correspondence.

24. A single form can express a number of _______ and a single communicative function can be

expressed by a number of _______.

25. In Hymes’s views, “communicative competence” refers to the ability not only to apply

grammatical rules of a language in order to form _______ correct sentences but also to know

when and where to use these sentences and to _______.

26. Reinforcement which increases the likelihood of a response is known as _______

reinforcement.

27. The learning theory of Audiolingualism is the _______ psychology which is an empirically

based approach to the study of human behaviour.

28. The basic theoretical principles of the Audiolingual Method reflect the influence of _______

linguistics and _______ psychology in language teaching.

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29. According to the Oral Approach, it is an obvious requirement of any course that should

proceed from _______ to difficult without _______ breaks.

30. Hornby, Gatenby and Wakefield analyzed the English language and classified its major

_______ into sentence _______ which could be used to have oral practice.

Ⅲ. Matching: (15%)

Directions: This section consists of three groups of pairs listed in two columns, A and B. You

are to match the one marked ①,②,③,④, or ⑤ in Column A with the one marked a, b, c, d,

or e in Column B. One point is given to each pair you match.

31.

A: period of development

① the 1890s

② 1910-1940

B: one feature of each period

a. uncertainty, meaning de-emphasized

b. attempts to establish foreign language as a school

subject

③ the 1950s

④ the 1960s

c. more emphasis on meaning

d. attempts to solve language teaching problems by

research methods

⑤ the 1970s

32.

A: the main feature of the Audiolingual Method B: the advantage or disadvantage

associated with the feature

① emphasis on the teaching of listening and

speaking before reading and writing

a. The use of language labs will allow each

student to work at his own pace.

b. The technique of mim-mem and pattern

drills gives students more thorough

practice in using grammar patterns.

③ much use of tapes, language labs, and visual

aids

c. Students often fail to fully understand

the value of language.

e. attempts to abandon the teacher-centred model

② emphasis on certain practice techniques:

mimicry, memorization and pattern drills

④ tendency to manipulate language and disregard d. Students are not expected to make any

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spontaneous, personal contribution.

e. It achieves noticeable success in developing ⑤ little or no grammatical explanation

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aural comprehension and oral fluency.

33.

A: the year

① 1882

② 1904

B: the event

a. the founding of the School of Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh University

b. the start of the teaching of English as a second/foreign language as a

profession in Britain

③ 1908

④ 1957

⑤ 1964

Ⅳ. Questions for Brief Answers: (30%)

Directions: This section has six questions. You are to briefly answer them. Five points are

given to each question.

34. What are the main features of the Communicative Approach?

35. What are the characteristics of Junior English for China and Senior English for China?

36. Why is the first language forbidden in the Direct Method classrooms?

37. What are the three crucial elements for learning to happen according to behaviourist

psychology?

38. What are the limitations of the Cognitive Approach?

39. What was traditional linguists’ attitude towards the written and spoken form of language?

V. Questions for Long Answers: (20%)

Directions: The two questions in this section are to be answered on the basis of your own

teaching experience as well as the theoretical knowledge you’ve learned. Ten points are given

to each question.

40. What are the main features of the Cognitive Approach? And in what aspects is the Cognitive

Approach different from the Audiolingual Method?

41. On the basis of your teaching or learning experience can you discuss with us the advantages

and disadvantages of the Grammar-Translation Method?

c. the start of the reform movement

d. the publication of Jespersen’s book How to Teach a Foreign Language

e. the founding of the International Association of Applied Linguisitics

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