2012年高等教育自学考试外语教学法冲刺模拟试卷(1)
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According to the Audiolingual Method, should dialogues be memorized through mimicry of the teacher's model? Why or why not?
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Do you think the Direct Method could be used by all foreign language teachers at all levels? Why or why not?
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How should language rules be learned according to the Direct Method?
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What are the principles and consequences of the Reform. Movement?
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What techniques of the Direct Method do you think are useful in modem language teaching?
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How does the discourse theory explain the second language acquisition process?
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What areas of language are emphasized by Oral Approach? What language skills are emphasized?
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What is the most important aspect of language according to the Grammar-Translation Method?
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Column A
1) ______ the theory of language underlying the natural approach
2) ______ the theory of learning underlying the natural approach
3) ______ one of the objectives of the natural approach
4) ______ one of the techniques of the natural approach
5) ______ one of the main features of the natural approach
Column B
- a) problem solving activities
- b) to help the students to develop basic communication skills
- c) class time being devoted primarily to providing input for acquisition
- d) communications as the primary function of language
- e) the monitor model
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Column A
1) ______ the Oral Approach
2) ______ the Grammar-Translation Method
3) ______ the Communicative Approach
4) ______ the Cognitive Approach
5) ______ the Natural Approach
Column B
- a) Krashen's monitor hypothesis
- b) behaviourist habit-formation theory
- c) innate organizing principles
- d) language as communication
- e) Faculty Psychology
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Since only ______, but not the mind, could be observed directly and objectively, it was the only proper subject of study in psychology.
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Column A
1) ______ the Direct Method
2) ______ the Audiolingual Method
3) ______ the Oral Approach
4) ______ the Communicative Approach
5) ______ the Cognitive Approach
Column B
- a) cognitive psychology and transformational grammar
- b) Notional Syllabus or some other communicatively organized syllabus
- c) language acquisition and associationist psychology
- d) British "structuralism"
- e) structural linguistics
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According to the behaviourist psychology, learning a language is a process of set of appropriate language stimulus-response chains, a ______ process habit formation.
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According to the______ approach, language learning in real life differs from language learning in the classroom.
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Ausubel believes that the ______ material will soon be forgotten because rote learning has little or no association with existing cognitive structure.
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The ______ Approach emphasizes on the conscious acquisition of language as a meaningful system.
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In the Grammar-Translation Method, reading passages are planned around the sequenced grammatical ______ and vocabulary to be studied.
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The ______ Approach emphasizes on oral skills; use of only the target language in the classroom.
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The Audiolingual Method develops the separation of the language skills into a ______ device, that is, listening, speaking, reading and writing.
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The Natural Approach is to develop the learners' basic communication skills--both ______ and written.
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The Communicative Approach attempts to follow the ______ acquisition process in the classroom.
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In order to contrast a communicative view of language ______ Chomsky's theory of competence, Hymes created the linguistic term communicative competence.
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Palmer focused on his main interest in the habit formation of foreign language ______ patterns.
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The ______ model is the center of Krashens second language learning theory.
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Traditional linguistics was ______ in nature.
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The ______ Approach emphasizes on natural communication rather than formal grammar study and is tolerance of learners' errors.
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The ______ Method places emphasis on repetition, drills, positive reinforcement of correct language production and extensive use of language lab.
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______ is a theory of the mind put forward by Sigmund Freud.
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The ______ Approach believes that the learner is the center of classroom teaching and language practice is the main form. of classroom teaching.
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The ______ Method emphasizes on the importance of spoken language. Believing in the natural process of language learning and in the inductive teaching of grammar.
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The Direct Methodologists believe that the best method of teaching meaning is the one using______ experience, generally visual perception.
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The general objective of the Total Physical Response Method is to teach ______ at a beginning level.
- A. oral and aural facility
- B. oral proficiency
- C. reading comprehension ability
- D. translating ability
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The schema theory is an important element in ______, which is action-based, more concerned with the process of learning than what is learnt.
- A. Kellys theory
- B. Piagets theory
- C. Brunners method
- D. Ausubels theory
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The phrase "context of situation" was created by______.
- A. Chomsky
- B. Bloomfield
- C. Firth
- D. Malinowski
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The first dictionary for students of English as a foreign language, ______ into which the classification of sentence patterns was incorporated, was published in 1953.
- A. Guide to Patterns and Usage in English
- B. The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English
- C. A Handbook of English Grammar
- D. Dictionary of Contemporary English
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The Communicative Approach emphasizes that the goal of language learning is______.
- A. communicative competence
- B. analytical discourse
- C. correcting errors
- D. direct response
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The book The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom was produced by______ in 1983.
- A. Krashen and Halliday
- B. Hymes and Wilkins
- C. Krashen and Terrell
- D. Halliday and Hymes
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The Audiolingual Method is a method of foreign or second language teaching which emphasizes the ______.
- A. listening and reading before speaking and writing
- B. listening and speaking before reading and writing
- C. listening and speaking before translating and writing
- D. reading and listening before writing and speaking
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Krashen identifies three kinds of affective variables related to second language acquisition:______.
- A. motivation, self-confidence and anxiety
- B. comprehension, acquisition and anxiety
- C. input, competence and self-confidence
- D. situation, motivation and self-confidence
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The Cognitive Approach seeks in ______ as basis for second language teaching.
- A. American structural linguistics and behavioural psychology
- B. structural linguistics and cognitive psychology
- C. functional linguistics and habit-formation theory
- D. transformational grammar and cognitive psychology
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According to behaviourist psychology, learning a language is a process of acquiring a set of appropriate______ chains, a mechanical process of habit formation.
- A. stimulus-response
- B. question-answer
- C. requirement-offering
- D. negative-positive
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A Direct Method teacher is usually found using techniques such as______.
- A. direct association and conversation practice
- B. question and answer exercises
- C. error correction and dictation
- D. all of the above
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______was Palmer's core methodological principle in language teaching and learning.
- A. Stimulus and response
- B. Habit-formation
- C. Form. and meaning
- D. Meaning and situation
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The Grammar-Translation Method dominated foreign language teaching______.
- A. from mid-19th century to mid-20th century
- B. from 1920s to 1940s
- C. from the late 18th century to early 19th century
- D. from 1910s to 1930s
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American structuralism started at the beginning of the 20th century and was very popular and influential in the 1930s and 1940s throughout the world. The two forerunners were ______.
- A. Bloomfield and Chomsky
- B. Malinowski and Firth
- C. Franz Boas and Edward Sapir
- D. Halliday and Edward Sapir
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Chomsky has made the distinction between linguistic competence and______.
- A. linguistic performance
- B. communicative competence
- C. reading performance
- D. universal grammar