2012年高等教育自学考试外语教学法考前密押试卷(2)

What do you think will be the trend of FLT in China?

From your own experience of learning English, how should a foreign language be taught in your opinion?

How do you interpret the idea of "communicating in English" in your case, as a learner of English?

What are the principles of behaviourism?

Review the tenets of Krashen's Input Hypothesis.

Do you think that it is necessary to draw a distinction between acquisition and learning? Why or why not?

Appropriacy of language use has to be considered alongside accuracy. What implications does this have for attitudes to errors?

Column A

1) ______ Verbal Behavior. (1957)

2) ______ Notional Syllabuses (1976)

3) ______ The Principles of Language Study (1921)

4) ______ Guide to Patterns and Usage in English (1954)

5) ______ The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom

Column B

How does the Cognitive Approach make up for all the disadvantages of the Audiolingual Method?

Column A

1) ______ the Oral Approach

2) ______ the Cognitive Approach

3) ______ the Direct Method

4) ______ the Audiolingnal Method

5) ______ the Natural Approach

Column B

Column A

1) ______ Jean Piaget

2) ______ M. A. K. Halliday

3) ______ J. Schumann

4) ______ Joseph H. Greenberg

5) ______ B.F. Skinner

Column B

In the Oral Approach, Palmer insisted that there was a basic difference between the spontaneous capacities of human beings to ______ language naturally and unconsciously and the trained or "situational" capacities of the classroom learner which allowed him to learn language consciously.

The British structuralism considered that language was identified with speech and speech ability was approached through oral practice of______.

Krashen uses the ______ hypothesis to explain the relationship between language input and language acquisition and to answer the question of how people acquire languages.

J. R. Firth's main approach to the notion of function in context was by means of concept system. People refer to his theory as ______ theory.

The general objective of the Total Physical Response method is to teach oral ______ at a beginning level.

According to the Cognitive Approach,______ practice is the main form. of classroom teaching.

Bloomfield believed that speech was primary and ______ was secondary.

According to the affective filter hypothesis: ______, self-confidence, and anxiety determines the speed of success in language learning.

 Krashen' s ______ order hypothesis states that we acquire the rules of language in a predictable order, some rules tending to come early and other late.

Krashen' s monitor hypothesis states that learning has only one function, and that is as a______.

The ______ Approach emphasizes on the communicative competence.

Yalden thinks that more effective foreign language learning will take place if the emphasis is on ______.

Chomsky divides the grammar of a natural language into core grammar and ______ grammar.

According to Audiolingnalism, there are three crucial elements in learning: a stimulus, a response and______.

The ______ Approach believes primary importance is attached to meaning, context and situation.

The ______ Approach emphasizes on innate organizing principles in human perception and learning.

The Oral Approach believes that language learning in real life is for the acquisition of spoken language while language learning in the classroom is for the development of______.

The ______ Method emphasizes that written should be graded in the following sequence: reproduction of familiar reading texts, reproduction of narratives orally presented by the teacher and free composition.

Diller's first principle that a living language is characterized by rule-governed ______ implies the teaching of a language as a consciously learnt system.

The ______ Method views that the syllabus is arranged semantically according to situations or topics.

______ is the most practical one among the following foreign language teaching methods in China.

Discourse theory of second language acquisition was developed from the______.

______ is sometimes called the modem version of Grammar-Translation Method.

According to Piaget, there are two principal types of cognitive structures which he called______.

The role of the learner in a Communicative Approach classroom are______.

The combination of structural linguistic theory, aural-oral procedures, and behaviourist psychology led to______, which was widely adopted for teaching of foreign languages in America.

According to Krashen, ______ is responsible for the fluency of the utterances produced by speakers while learning is responsible for the accuracy of the speeches or passages.

The core of ______ is language acquisition which is considered a subconscious process, dependent on the amount of input the students get and allow in.

Palmer, the British applied linguist, produced a guide to the English vocabulary needed for teaching English as a foreign language. The words are chosen for the following criteria EXCEPT______.

______ was developed in the late 19th century.

In Grammar-Translation Method, ______ is maintained as the reference system in the learning of the second language.

The Direct Method teachers believe that direct association of ______ is of great importance in language teaching.

Stimulus-response theory of learning belongs to American behaviourist psychology, of which______ is one of the representatives.

The discourse theory was established by ______ in the late 1970s and developed from M. A. K. Halliday's theory of first language acquisition.

The 1920s saw the emergence of a new psychological school called ______ founded by a group of psychologists.