全国2010年10月高等教育自学考试外语教学法试卷
课程代码:00833

I. Multiple Choices: (20%)
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
B. longest
C. fastest
D. quickest
2. _____ were known as the representatives of the structural linguistics.
A. Bloomfield and Fries
B. Terrell and Chomsky
C. Fries and Terrell
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
B. The Audiolingual Method
C. The Direct 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
B. newspapers
C. tales
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
B. phonetics
C. vocabulary
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
B. discourse
C. content
D. situation
9. What can be introduced as a means of consolidation and evaluation in the Direct Method?
A. Fill-in-the-blank.
B. Dictation.
C. Writing
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.
B. The Silent Way.
C. Total Physical Response.
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
B. speaking
C. reading
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
B. association
C. deduction
D. induction
15. The theory of language underlying the Grammar-Translation Method was derived from _____ Linguistics.
A. Applied
B. Comparative Historical
C. Traditional
D. Structural
16. A variety of games, role-plays, situations, etc. are _____ communicative activities prepared to support the Communicative Language Teaching.
A. text-based
B. task-based
C. game-based
D. situation-based
17. According to Skinner, a well-known behaviorist psychologist, _____ was much more effective than _____ in a teaching situation.
A. reward ...reasoning
B. reward ...punishment
C. reasoning ...reward
D. reasoning ...punishment
18. The cognitive theory of learning as put forward by Ausubel is perhaps best understood by contrasting rote and _____ learning.
A. useful
B. practical
C. meaningful
D. advanced
19. _____ ideas on education justified the views on language teaching with the Direct Method.
A. Hermatnn Paul's B.J.A. Comenius’
C. F. Gouin’s D.W.M. Wundt’s
20. In the Natural Approach, the teacher can make use of various ways except _____ in order to help the students to be successful.
A. keeping their attention on key lexical items
B. explaining grammatical rules
C. using appropriate gestures
D. using context to help them understand

II. Filling Blanks: (20%)
Directions: In this section there are 20 statements with 20 blanks. You are to fill each blank with ONE appropriate wor
D. One point is given to each blank.
21. The Natural Approach believes that skills acquired through _____ transfer to other skills.
22. The syllabus used in the_____ Method is arranged semantically according to situations or topics.
23. The _____ Model is the center of Krashen’s second language learning theory.
24. As one of the objectives in the Oral Approach, accuracy in both pronunciation and grammar is regarded as crucial, and _____ are to be avoided at all costs.
25. Pattern _____ is the center of practice in an Audiolingual Method classroom, for sentence patterns are the basis of language.
26. Cognitive psychologists hold that language learning is the discovery of the underlying _____ of the language by means of inductive and deductive inference.
27. Short-range objectives of an Audiolingual program include training in listening comprehension, accurate _____ , reading comprehension and production of correct sentences in writing.
28. The Total Physical Response method sees successful adult second language learning as a process paralleled to children's first language_____.
29. Although the teaching of all four language skills is advocated by most Direct Methodologists, _____ communication skills are regarded as basic.
30. 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.
31. The Silent Way takes a _____ approach to the organization of language to be taught.
32. According to Palmer, "Rather than focus on _____ of grammatical rules in classroom teaching, the teacher must encourage direct and spontaneous use of the target language in the classroom. "
33. An understanding of the social context in which communication takes place is referred to as _____ competence.
34. The Grammar-Translation Method proved to be an effective means in studying foreign _____ through literary works.
35. Palmer viewed that classroom language teaching should follow _____ principles of language learning.
36. The experts in grammar analysis and translation approach believed that the human minds could be trained by logical _____ of the classic language, memorization of complicated rules, and translation between languages.
37. According to behaviorists, the linguistic habits are formed through identifying and strengthening the _____ between stimuli and responses.
38. Generally speaking, FLTM is an _____ science and it makes uses of theories of different subjects.
39. The schema theory is an important element in _____ theory. The expression was coined to describe "an active organization".
40. The Silent Way is based on the principle that successful learning involves commitment of the self to language acquisition through the use of silent _____ and then active trial.
III. Matching: (10%)
Directions: This section consists of two groups of pairs listed in two columns, A and
B. You are to match the one marked①,②,③,④,or⑤ 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.
41.A. The event
B. The time

42.A. FLTM
B. Objective

IV. Questions for Brief Answers: (30%)
Directions: This section has six questions. You are to answer them briefly. Five points are given to each question.
43. What are the five hypotheses that make up the monitor theory put forward by Stephen Krashen?
44. The teacher in a Communicative Approach classroom plays four major roles. What are they?
45. What makes the Silent Way different from the other methods?
46. What are the four objectives involved in the Grammar-Translation Method?
47. What are the major features of the Oral Approach?
48. What are the focuses of classroom teaching in the Cognitive Approach?
V. Questions for Long Answers: (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 learne
D. Ten points are given to each question.
49. What advantages can be found in the Direct Method?
50. Name at least five of the eleven techniques involved in the Audiolingual Metho
D. And how do these techniques serve the various objectives of language teaching?