2017年10月自考外语教学法考试真题

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I. Multiple Choices: (20%)

Directions: In this section, you are given 20 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. In a Total Physical Response classroom, the students listen attentively and respond ____ to commands given by the teacher.

A. physically B. quickly

C. correctlyD. actively

 

2. The Oral Approach, also called _____, originated with the work of British linguists in the early 20th century.

A. Situational Language Teaching B. Audiolingualism

C. Community Language Learning D. Suggestopaedia

 

3 ._____is a technique frequently employed in the Grammar-Translation teaching.

A. Role-play B. Listening comprehension

C. Conversation practice D. Composition

 

4. The emergence of the ______resulted from the increased attention given to foreign language teaching in the US towards the end of the 1950s.

A. Audiolingual Method B. Oral Approach

C. Direct Method D. Cognitive Approach

 

5. Which of the following activities is not often used in a communicative class?

A. Problem-solving tasks. B. Pattern-drilling.

C. Role play. D. Oral presentation.

 

6. In the early stage of an Audiolingual Method classroom, the focus is on _____skills，with gradual links to other skills as learning develops.

A. oral B. aural C. reading D. writing

 

7. The Natural Approach was proposed in 1977 by ____，a teacher of Spanish at the University of California.

A. Stephen Krashen B. Tracy Terrell

C. James Asher D. David Nunan

 

8. The_______develops directly from the London School of Linguistics.

A. sociolinguistics B. psycholinguistics

C. pragmatics D. functional linguistics

 

9. Which of the following is forbidden in a Direct Method classroom?

A. Using gestures. B. Sketch drawing.

C. The first language. D. Writing.

 

10 .______ believes that learners should organize knowledge for themselves，for example,by using discovery methods.

A. Ausubel   B. Palmer

C. Bruner   D. Skinner

 

11. The monitor theory consists of_____ hypotheses.

A. four  B. five C. Six  D.seven

 

12. Who first used the term “communicative competence” in deliberate contrast to Chomsky’s “linguistic competence”?

A. Stem B. Asher

C. Krashen D. Hymes

 

13. ______ ideas on education justified the views on language teaching with the Direct Method.

A. Hermann Paul’s B. J. A. Comenius’

C. F. Gouin’s    D. W. M. Wundt’s

 

14. A Grammar-Translation teacher usually uses reading passages taken from______or carefully written by a compiler, including particular grammar rules and vocabulary.

A. students’ writings B. teachers’ writings

C. governmental reports D. literary works

 

15 .______，the study of how sentences in spoken and written language form larger meaningful units, is an indispensable part of the Communicative Approach.

A. Discourse analysis B. Semantics C. Pragmatics D. Morphology

 

16. The idea of______is also dealt with by G. Kelly, a clinical psychologist.

A. discovery learning B. independent learning

C. community learning D. meaningful learning

 

17. In a Natural Approach classroom, most of the classroom time is spent on activities which foster________.

A. acquisition B. speaking C. listening D. understanding

 

18. In an Oral Approach class, when the teacher asks several individual students to repeat the model he/she has given, the students are doing ______.

A. individual imitation B. group pattern drilling

C. isolation D. question-answer drilling

 

19. Language is a tool of communication. The symbol “Highway Closed” on a highway is used for______.

A. informing B. requesting C. suggesting D. persuading

 

20. Which of the following skills can help students to produce longer sentences bit by bit, gradually achieving fluency?

A. Clause combination skill. B. Backward build-up drill.

C. Expansion drill. D. Chain drill.

 

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II. Filling Blanks: (20%)

Directions: In this section, there are 20 statements with 20 blanks. You are to fill each blank with ONE appropriate word. One point is given to each blank.

 

21. According to Chomsky, human beings are born with a language________device which consists of a set of general principles.

22. The goal of Communicative Language Teaching is to help learners with communicative_____.

23. Krashen and Terrell reject earlier methods of language teaching, such as the Audiolingual Method, which viewed______as the central component of language.

24.The_____of a Natural Approach class are divided according to basic personal communication skills and academic learning skills, with focus on the former.

25.The Grammar-Translation Method dominated foreign language teaching from the mid-19th century to the______century.

26.If the mother tongue and the target language have the same linguistic habits, the positive_______will occur and the target language learning process will be facilitated.

27.According to the Audiolingual Method, the natural ______ of skill acquisition is listening, speaking, reading and writing.

28.M. A. K. Halliday has made quite clear his point of view that linguistic events should be accounted for at three primary levels: substance, form, and_.

29.One of the objectives of the Oral Approach is to achieve______in both pronunciation and grammar. Errors are to be avoided.

30.The Direct Method believes in the natural process of language learning and in the ______teaching of grammar.

31.Many proponents of the Communicative Approach have advocated the use of “_____”materials in the classroom, such as language-based realia, newspapers or graphic and visual sources.

32.Designing_______comprehension tasks is one of the ways to establish a favorable classroom climate in the Direct Method.

33.Behaviourist psychology states that human and animal behavior can and should be studied in terms of______processes only.

34.The generative linguist is interested not only in describing language but also in_____language.

35.In Hyme’s view, in order to communicate with speakers of the language, learners need to know rules of language as well as rules of language_____.

36.The theory of language underlying the Oral Approach can be characterized as a type of British “______”•

37.Piaget considers that conceptual growth occurs because the child, while actively attempting to adapt to the environment, organizes actions into schemata through the processes of______and accommodation.

38.The acquisition activities in a Natural Approach class are usually divided into four groups:affective-humanistic, problem-solving，_______, and content.

39.The emphasis on WHAT and HOW continued during the transformational generative period, when the________code-learning approach was much discussed.

40.Community Language Learning advocates a_______approach to language learning,since “true” human learning is both cognitive and affective.

 

III. Matching: (10%)

 

Directions: This section consists of two 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 correctly.

41.

42.

 

IV. Questions for Brief Answers: (30%)

 

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

43. Why is Community Language Learning sometimes cited as an example of a “humanistic approach”?

44. What are the three kinds of materials currently used in the Communicative Approach?

45. Krashen identifies three kinds of affective variables related to second language acquisition. What are they?

46. What procedures will be observed in a typical audiolingual lesson?

47. What were the three factors that made cognitive psychology the dominant approach in the world?

48. What did the traditional linguistics generally emphasize?

 

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.

 

49. What techniques of the Direct Method do you think are useful in modem language teaching? And Why?

50. In which way are the Grammar-Translation Method and the Cognitive Approach similar and different?