外语教学法(A)

江西省2013 年 5 月份高等教育自学考试

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一、Multiple Choices: (2’×15=30) 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. The purpose of foreign language teaching is to enable the student to actively use the target language in the _____ possible time.

A. shortest

C. fastest B. longest D. quickest

2. _____ were known as the representatives of the structural linguistics.

A. Bloomfield and Fries

C. Fries and Terrell B. Terrell and Chomsky D. Krashen and Terrell

3.A.S. Hornby compiled _____ , a great contribution to EFL teaching.

A. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

B. The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English

C. Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary

D. The Concise Oxford Dictionary

4. _____ was developed in the late 19th century as a reaction against the Grammar-Translation Method.

A. The Oral Approach

C. The Direct Method B. The Audiolingual Method D. The Cognitive Approach

5. Noam Chomsky wrote the book_____.

A. Language B. Syntactic Structures

C. How to Teach a Foreign Language D. The Practical Study of Language

6. One of the disadvantages in the Grammar-Translation Method is that the texts are taken from _____, the language of which doesn't often meet the practical needs of the learners.

A. literary works

C. tales B. newspapers D. critical reviews

7. Palmer and some other linguists of his time believed that _____played one of the most important roles in foreign language learning.

A. grammar

C. vocabulary B. phonetics D. rhetoric

8. Halliday advocates that the social context of language use can be analyzed in terms of the field, tenor and mode of_____.

A. context

C. content B. discourse D. situation

9. What can be introduced as a means of consolidation and evaluation in the Direct Method?

A. Fill-in-the-blank.

C. Writing B. Dictation. D. Reading.

10. What Krashen and Terrell exphasize in. their approach is the primacy of _____.

A. form B. vocabulary

C. meaning D. phonetics

11. Which of the following methods advises teachers to consider their students as “whole persons”?

A. Community Language Learning.

C. Total Physical Response. B. The Silent Way. D. Suggestopaedia.

12. In essence, the Global Method is a text-based, top-down approach in which _____ is a means as well as an end in itself.

A. listening

C. reading B. speaking D. writing

13. Which of the following is NOT one of the hypotheses put forward by Stephen Krashen?

A. The acquisition-learning hypothesis. B. The natural order hypothesis.

C. The input hypothesis. D. The hypothesis of linguistic universals.

14. The process of learning by discovery, according to Bruner, involves _____ with the minimum of instruction and errorful learning.

A. generalization

C. deduction B. association D. induction

15. The theory of language underlying the Grammar-Translation Method was derived from _____ Linguistics.

A. Applied

C. Traditional

二、Filling blanks: (2’×5=10) B. Comparative Historical D. Structural Directions: In this section, there are 20 statements, each of

which contains a blank. You are to fill in each blank with ONE appropriate word. One point is given to each blank.

16. Cognitive psychologists hold that language learning is the discovery of the underlying _____ of the language by means of inductive and deductive inference.

17. Short-range objectives of an Audiolingual program include training in listening comprehension, accurate _____ , reading comprehension and production of correct sentences in writing.

18. The Total Physical Response method sees successful adult second language learning as a process paralleled to children's first language_____.

19. Although the teaching of all four language skills is advocated by most Direct Methodologists, _____ communication skills are regarded as basic.

20. Henry Widdowson focused on the communicative acts underlying the ability to use language for different purposes with his _____ between appropriacy and accuracy, communicative competence and grammatical competence, use and usage.

三、 Matching: (2’×10=20) 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.

21.A. The event B. The time

22.A. FLTM B. Objective

四、IV. Questions for Brief Answers: (5’×4=20)

Directions: This section has six questions. You are to answer

them briefly. Five points are given to each question.

23. The teacher in a Communicative Approach classroom plays four major roles. What are they?

24. What makes the Silent Way different from the other methods?

25. What are the four objectives involved in the Grammar-Translation Method?

26. What are the major features of the Oral Approach?

五、V. Questions for Long Answers: (10’×2=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.

27. What advantages can be found in the Direct Method?

28. Name at least five of the eleven techniques involved in the Audiolingual Method. And how do these techniques serve the various objectives of language teaching?