全国2007年1月高等教育自学考试
外语教学法试题
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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. With development of modern languages, Latin became a(n) ________ language.
A. scientific
B. living
C. dead
D. artistic

2. ________ is considered as the father of American structuralism.
A. Franz Boas
B. Leonard Bloomfield
C. Edward Sapir
D. Noam Chomsky

3. Some linguists believed that ________ languages originated from one language and were ruled by a common grammar.
A. all
B. some
C. European
D.many

4. Talking about pictures on the blackboard in the classroom is ________.
A. a language exercise
B. a communicative activity
C. both of the two
D. neither of the two

5. Who is the advocate of the Total Physical Response Method?
A. C.A. Curran
B. James Asher
C. Georgi Lozanov
D. Caleb Gattegno

6. It is ________ for students in teachers colleges to have a solid mastery of the grammar system of the target language in their future teaching.
A. not important at all
B. very important
C. somewhat important
D. hardly important

7. In the Oral Approach, accuracy in both pronunciation and grammar is regarded as ________.
A. permittable
B. crucial
C. useless
D. acceptable

8. Memorizing grammar rules and bilingual word lists tends to give the learners ________ to actively communicate in the target language.
A. high motivation
B. good motivation
C. low motivation
D. favorable motivation

9. The Oral Approach is not concerned with ________.
A. priority of spoken language
B. inductive teaching of grammar
C. situational presentation
D. linguistic appropriateness

10. Students will be ________ motivated to learn a foreign language when they feel they are learning to do something with the language they study.
A. little
B. more
C. less
D. least

11. Why are teachers required to tell the learner about the language in the Cognitive Approach?
A. Because knowledge of language rules facilitates learning.
B. Because knowledge of language rules is useful for reading and writing.
C. Because students’ mistakes can be avoided by learning grammatical rules.
D. Because the learning of grammatical rules involves active mental processes.

12. The language teaching that emphasizes linguistic accuracy only will produce students who are ________ competent and communicatively ________.
A. structurally, competent
B. structurally, incompetent
C. communicatively, competent
D. communicatively, incompetent

13. J.B. Bruner believes that learning is most effectively achieved when children are encouraged to ________
A. use pre-packaged materials
B. use advice organizers
C. engage in individualized teaching
D. engage in guided discovery

14. The attempts made in ________ to establish theoretical principles marked the beginning of applied linguistics.
A. the Grammar-Translation Method
B. the Direct Method
C. the Audiolingual Method
D. the Oral Approach

15. Which of the following is NOT a basic principle of the Cognitive Approach?
A. Knowledge of language rules facilitates learning.
B. Mistakes are unavoidable.
C. Teach the language, not about the language.
D. Learning is based on understanding.

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