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Language Teaching Methods - 2
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Instructions:
Answer 47 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Correction by the learner of an ill-formed utterance - either self-initiated or in response to feedback
illocutionary competence
turn-taking
context-embedded language
repair
2. Naturally occurring discourses - usually written - across different languages and cultures
discourse analysis
forms (language forms)
contrastive rhetoric
repair
3. Language forms and functions that lck a set of embedded schemata within which the learner can operate - as in traditional test items - isolated reading excerpts - and repetition drills (see CALP)
notional-functional syllabuses
structural syllabus
topic development
context-reduced language
4. The ability to use or apply sociocultural rules of discourse in a language
shifting
task
sociolinguistic competence
functions (language functions)
5. Pertaining to one's sense of smell
olfactory
target tasks
avoidance
notional-functional syllabuses
6. Language forms and functions that are embedded in a set of schemata within which the learner can operate - as in meaningful conversations - real-life tasks - and extensive reading (see BICS)
register
pragmatic competence
avoidance
context-embedded language
7. The interface between pragmatics and social organization
context-reduced language
kinesics
communicative competence
sociopragmatics
8. The intended meaning of the utterance or text within its context
functions (language functions)
illocutionary force
repair
task-based instruction
9. An approach to linguistic research that relies on computer analyses of a collection of texts-written - transcribed speech - or both-stored in electronic form and analyzed with the help of computer programs
functions (language functions)
corpus linguistics
grammatical competence
Grice's maxims
10. A language course that attends primarily to forms (grammar - phonology - lexicon) as organizing elements of a foreign language curriculum
contrastive rhetoric
communicative language teaching
functions (language functions)
structural syllabus
11. (of a topic) in a conversation - steering others away from an unwanted topic
pedagogical tasks
context-embedded language
avoidance
contrastive rhetoric
12. (according to Canale & Swain) the ability to use strategies to compensate for imperfect knowledge of rules or performance limitations
strategic competence
repair
pragmatic competence
approach
13. Criteria for analyzing why speakers are sometimes ineffective in conversations
14. In nonverbal communication - conventions for how to touch others and where to touch them
target tasks
pragmalinguistic
kinesthetics
attention getting
15. Nonverbal feature involving what one looks at how one looks at another person in face-to-face communication
artifacts
clarification request
eye contact
repair
16. Use of language in the world beyond the classroom
target tasks
artifacts
cognitive academic language proficiency
Grice's maxims
17. Communicative behaviors used systematically to accomplish particular purposes
Grice's maxims
interruptions
speech acts
clarification request
18. The ability to use rules and systems that dictate what we can do with the forms of language
repair
proxemics
organizational competence
eye contact
19. The examination of the relationship between forms and functions of language beyond the sentence level
olfactory
kinesics
sociopragmatics
discourse analysis
20. A language course that attends primarily to functions as organizing elements of a foreign language curriculum
notional-functional syllabuses
grammatical competence
artifacts
task
21. Activities or techniques that occur in the classroom
pedagogical tasks
register
speech acts
structural syllabus
22. Proposing a topic for discussion in a conversation
target tasks
approach
topic nomination
discourse analysis
23. Securing the attention fo one's audience in a conversation
pedagogical tasks
speech acts
attention getting
discourse analysis
24. (of a topic) changing the subject in a conversation
speech acts
shifting
eye contact
sociopragmatics
25. Maintaining a topic in a conversation
topic development
forms (language forms)
basic interpersonal communicative skills
perlocutionary force
26. The ability to connect sentences in stretches of discourse and to form a meaningful whole out of a series of utterances
forms (language forms)
turn-taking
discourse competence
context-embedded language
27. The dimension of proficiency in which a learner manipulates or reflects on the surface features of language in academic contexts - such as test-taking - writing - analyzing - and reading academic texts
task
pedagogical tasks
task-based instruction
cognitive academic language proficiency
28. The intersection of pragmatics and linguistic forms
pedagogical tasks
pragmalinguistic
cognitive academic language proficiency
register
29. A set of language variants commonly identified by certain phonological features - vocabulary - idioms - and/or other expressions that are associated with an occupational or socioeconomic group
approach
task-based instruction
kinesthetics
register
30. The ability to send and receive intended meanings
illocutionary competence
illocutionary force
pedagogical tasks
discourse competence
31. In a conversation - conventions in which participants allow aappropriate opportunities for others to talk or take the floor
clarification request
interruptions
functions (language functions)
turn-taking
32. A classroom activity in which meaning is primary
perlocutionary force
register
task
kinesics
33. The cluster of abilities that enable humans to convey and interpret messages and to negotiate meanings interpresonally within specific contexts
notional-functional syllabuses
approach
communicative competence
target tasks
34. The ability to produce and comprehend functional and sociolinguistic aspects of language
context-reduced language
pragmatic competence
structural syllabus
kinesthetics
35. The communicative capacity that all humans acquire in order to be able to function in daily interpresonal exchanges
eye contact
pragmatic competence
basic interpersonal communicative skills
topic nomination
36. The meaningful - interactive purposes within a social (pragmatic) context - that we accomplish with the bits and pieces of language
pragmalinguistic
functions (language functions)
pragmatic competence
illocutionary force
37. An approach to language teaching methodology that emphasizes authenticity - interaction - student-centered learning - task-based activities - and communication for real-world - meaningful purposes
communicative language teaching
structural syllabus
notional-functional syllabuses
context-embedded language
38. A unified but broadly based theoretical position about the nature of language and of language learning and teaching that forms the basis fo methodology in the language classroom
Grice's maxims
illocutionary competence
approach
artifacts
39. Breaking in and taking the floor
interruptions
proxemics
functions (language functions)
task
40. An aspect of communicative competence that encompasses knowledge of lexical items and of rules of morphology - syntax - sentence-level grammar - semantics - and phonology
grammatical competence
kinesics
target tasks
avoidance
41. The bits and pieces of language - such as morphemes - words - grammar rules - discourse rules - and other organizational elements of language
forms (language forms)
task
clarification request
artifacts
42. An approach to language teaching that focuses on tasks
avoidance
task-based instruction
speech acts
basic interpersonal communicative skills
43. An elicitation of a reformulation from a student (different unit maybe?)
olfactory
pragmatic competence
clarification request
attention getting
44. In nonverbal communication - conventions for acceptable physical distance between persons
context-embedded language
basic interpersonal communicative skills
contrastive rhetoric
proxemics
45. The effect and importance of the consequences of communicative speech acts
turn-taking
pragmatic competence
shifting
perlocutionary force
46. Body language - gesture - eye contact - and other physical features of nonverbal communication
proxemics
kinesics
turn-taking
forms (language forms)
47. In nonverbal communication - factors external to a person - such as clothing and ornamentation - and their effect on communication
Grice's maxims
functions (language functions)
artifacts
olfactory