SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Language Teaching Methods
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
teaching
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Based on structure- grammar and vocab; items introduced by grammatical complexity
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Silent Way
Objectives: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
2. Use language meaningful to promote learning; activities involving real communication
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Direct Method
3. Language is a set of structures related to situations
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
4. No basic text; initially use voice - gestures and action; later use materials and media
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Activities: Silent Way
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
5. Listen and perform; little influence over content of learning
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Communicative
6. Leaning L2 and L1 different; L2 learning is intellectual; feel music of language; silent awareness - then active trial
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
7. Counselling and parent analogy; provide safe environment for students to learn and grow
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Community Language Learning
Activity Types: Communicative
8. Literary language is superior to spoken language
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Communcative
Activities: Silent Way
9. Language involved whole person and culture; educational - developmental - communicative process
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Activities: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
Activities: Natural Approach
10. Initiatives - question and answer - role play; listening exercises while deeply relaxed
Activities: Suggestopedia
Teacher Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of language: Communicative
11. Conventional - but memorization of whole meaningful text is recommended
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
12. Based on selection of communicative activities and topics derived from learners' needs
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Materials Roles: Direct Method
13. Translation; reading comp; memorization of vocab lists; identify synonyms - antonyms - cognates - deductive application of grammar rules
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
Activity types: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
14. Textbooks; prepared passages and related grammar and vocab exercises
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Communcative
Materials Roles: Silent Way
15. Teacher oriented; tapes & visuals; language lab often used
Materials Roles: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Language: Silent Way
Activities: Silent Way
16. Texts - tapes - classroom items and music; texts must have force and literary quality
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Direct Method
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
17. Unique materials' colored rods; coded pronunciation and vocab charts
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Natural Approach
Materials Roles: Silent Way
18. L2 learning same as L1; comprehension before production; carry out commands and reduction of stress
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Activity Types: Communicative
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Activity Types: Audiolingual
19. Language is a rule governed system - hierarchically arranged
Theory of Language: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Communicative
Materials Roles: Direct Method
20. No specific objectives; near native mastery is goal
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Objectives: Community Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
21. Structures - functions - notions - themes & tasks; order based on learners' needs
Syllabus: Communicative
Teacher Roles: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Total Physical Response
22. Communicate orally and think in L2 - students make direct association between meaning and L2
Objectives: Direct Method
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Total Physical Response
23. Based on situations and topics - not usually linguistic
Syllabus: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Communicative
24. Direct class activities; demonstrate - not explain or translate; give Ss choices to correct selves
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Material Roles: Communcative
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Direct Method
25. Learners are directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct response
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
26. Repetition; substitution drills; avoid translation and grammar explanation; students not allowed to make mistakes
Activities: Situational Language Learning
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Syllabus: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Situational Language Learning
27. Create situations and present materials to encourage positive reception and retention; exude authority and confidence
Teacher Roles: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Communicative
28. Read and write; no control over content; memorize; answer-usually written
Activities: Silent Way
Activities: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
29. Relies on text and visual aids; test is tightly organized - has structurally graded lessons
Theory of Learning: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Materials Roles: Situational Language Learning
30. Imperative drills to elicit physical actions
Activities: Total Physical Response
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
31. Main source of comprehensible input; must create positive; low-anxiety climate; lead rich mixture of activities
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
Activities: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
32. To be able to read literature in L2; translate L2 to L1 and vice versa; achieve proficiency in L2 reading and writing
Learner Roles: Communicative
Objectives: Grammar Translation
Syllabus: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
33. Essence of language is meaning; vocab not grammar is heart of the language
Objectives: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Language: Natural Approach
34. Central & active teacher centered method; provides model - controls direction & pace
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Teacher Roles: Audiolingual
Materials Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Language: Direct Method
35. Language is primarily speech; learning language involves culture
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
36. Authority; has all control; corrects students; assign tasks to be memorized
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Grammar Translation
Theory of Learning: Silent Way
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
37. Literary passages to be translated; vocab and grammar based lessons based on passages
Materials Roles: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Silent Way
Syllabus: Grammar Translation
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
38. Habit formation; skills learned more effectively if oral before written; analogy - not analysis
Material Roles: Communcative
Theory of Language: Direct Method
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
Theory of Language: Community Language Learning
39. Innovative and conventional; translation - group work - recording - transcription - free conversation
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Syllabus: Situational Language Learning
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Activities: Natural Approach
40. Leaning involves whole person; social process of growth
Materials Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Community Language Learning
41. Graded syllabus of phonology - morphology & syntax; contrastive analysis
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Activity Types: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Audiolingual
42. Listen and repeat; respond to questions and commands; no control over content; make own statements questions later
Syllabus: Total Physical Response
Syllabus: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Learner Roles: Situational Language Learning
43. No textbook; materials developed as course progresses
Activities: Natural Approach
Syllabus: Direct Method
Teacher Roles: Grammar Translation
Material Roles: Community Language Learning
44. Translation and memorization - learn about L2 by translating L2 to L1 and vice versa and by learning vocab and grammar of L2
Learner Roles: Communicative
Theory of Language: Suggestopedia
Syllabus: Silent Way
Theory of Learning: Grammar Translation
45. Memorization and habit forming
Theory of Learning: Situational Language Learning
Activity Types: Audiolingual
Syllabus: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Total Physical Response
46. Responsible for their own learning' must develop independence - autonomy and responsibility
Materials Roles: Natural Approach
Learner Roles: Silent Way
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Teacher Roles: Natural Approach
47. Learning cannot lead to acquisition; learning- a conscious process; acquisition- a natural - subconscious process
Theory of Learning: Natural Approach
Activity Types: Community Language Learning
Learner Roles: Audiolingual
Theory of Learning: Communicative
48. Learning occurs through suggestion - when learners are in deeply relaxed state; baroque music used to induce state
Theory of Learning: Communicative
Theory of Learning: Suggestopedia
Objectives: Audiolingual
Activity Types: Audiolingual
49. Produce learners who can communicate orally - intelligibly uninhibitedly with native speakers
Teacher Roles: Communicative
Objectives: Audiolingual
Objectives: Total Physical Response
Learner Roles: Grammar Translation
50. Control of structures of sound; form & order; mastery over symbols of L2; native speaker mastery
Learner Roles: Direct Method
Learner Roles: Community Language Learning
Teacher Roles: Situational Language Learning
Objectives: Audiolingual