外语教学法试题_全国2009年1月自考试卷

全国2009年1月自考外语教学法试题

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Ⅰ.Multiple Choices: (15%)
Directions: In this section, you are given 15 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. Which of the following is NOT discussed in the book Foreign Language Teaching Methodology (FLTM)?
A. the history of the English language 
B. theories of FLTM
C. the history of foreign language teaching 
D. the nature of FLTM
2. In Malinowski’s view, “the meaning of any single word is to a very high degree dependent on its _____.”
A. form B. context
C. content D. format
3.The primary purpose of learning Latin was to examine the _____in the Renaissance.
A. classical culture B. Roman history
C. Catholic doctrines D. religions
4. Most foreign language teaching experts concluded that the Grammar-Translation Method originated from the _____ century.
A. 15th B. 16th
C. 17th D. 18th
5. _____ ideas on education justified the views on language teaching with the Direct Method.
A. Hermann Paul’s B. J.A. Comenius’
C. F. Gouin’s D. W.M. Wundt’s
6. Harold Palmer and A.S. Hornby, two pioneers of the Oral Approach, were familiar but dissatisfied with the _____ Method.
A. Grammar-Translation B. Direct
C. Communicative D. Audiolingual
7. During his teaching practice, Palmer devised various types of _____.
A. oral drills and tests B. written drills and exercises
C. oral drills and exercises D. written drills and tests
8. The Audiolingual Method largely developed in _____ during the Second World War.
A. the United States B. Europe
C. Latin America D. Asia
9. Chomsky and others claimed that every normal human being was born with a/an _____.
A. LDA B. ADL
C. LAD D. DLA
10. In a _____ classroom, meaningful learning and meaningful practice are emphasized during the entire learning process.
A. Cognitive Approach B. Direct Method
C. Audiolingual Method D. Natural Approach
11. The Natural Approach believes that the teaching of _____ should be delayed until comprehension skills are established.
A. listening B. speaking
C. reading D. writing
12. The Communicative Approach is essentially a manifestation of the most explicit debate in pedagogy in the UK during the _____.
A. 1950s       B. 1960s
C. 1970s D. 1980s
13. The Communicative Approach in language teaching begins with a theory of language as _____.
A. performance B. communication
C. speech D. competence
14. The teacher plays an active and direct role in _____.
A. Community Language Learning B. Suggestopaedia
C. Total Physical Response D. the Silent Way
15. 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
Ⅱ. Filling Blanks: (20%)
Directions: In this section there are 20 statements with 20 blanks. You are to fill each blank with ONE appropriate word. One point is given to each blank.
16. Skinners and his like hold that the linguistic habits are formed through identifying and strengthening the ______ between stimuli and responses.
17. According to the discourse theory, only through ______ discourse can the learner acquire the second language.
18. Some Grammar-Translation Method advocators thought that all languages originated from ______ so that they were governed by a common grammar.
19. In a Grammar-Translation classroom, the teaching materials are arranged according to ____.
20. The leaning of a foreign language was viewed by the Direct Methodologists as analogous to the language ____, and the learning processes involved were often interpreted in terms of an associationist psychology.
21. The syllabus used in the Direct Method is arranged semantically according to ____ or topics.
22. The Oral Approach lays emphasis on the provision of ____ in the presentation of a new structure and in dealing with the integration of vocabulary work.
23. Only at a later stage in the Oral Approach, can more active ____ on the part of the learners be encouraged.
24. In the Oral Approach, concrete objects, pictures, realia, actions and gestures can be employed to ____ the meanings of new language items.
25. According to behaviorism, the ____ is the result of stimulus, correct response and reward happening repeatedly.
26. According to the Audiolingual Method, the natural ____ of skill acquisition is listening, speaking, reading and writing.
27. Piaget considers that conceptual growth occurs because the child, while actively attempting to adapt to the environment, organizes actions into schemata through the processes of assimilation and ____.
28. In the Cognitive Approach, teachers are required to tell the learner about the language, because knowledge of language rules facilitates ____.
29. Krashen states: “The order that some rules tend to come early and others late does not appear to be determined solely by formal ____ and there is evidence that it is independent of the order in which rules are taught in language classes.”
30. The input hypothesis claims that the best way to teach ____ is to focus on listening.
31. In the Natural Approach, to ____ stress, learners are not required to speak until they feel ready, but they are expected to make responses in other ways.
32. The relationship between the grammatical forms and the communicative ____is carefully explored in a communicative perspective.
33. In a Communicative Approach classroom, students need to know both the rules of the language and the rules of language ____.
34. Whole person learning means that teachers should not only take their students’ ____ and intellect into consideration, but also have some understanding of the relationship between students’ physical reactions, their protective reactions and their desire to learn.
35. Suggestopaedia, the application of the study of _____ to pedagogy, has been developed to help students eliminate the feeling that they can not be successful, and thus to help them overcome the barriers to learning.
Ⅲ. Matching: (15%)
Directions: This section consists of three 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.

36.
A                                         B
① the habit-formation theory  a. The theory originated in the late 1970s
                                        and was put forward by J. Schumann and
                                        R. Anderson.
② the hypothesis of linguistic universals     b. The theory comes from the behaviourist
                      psychology and was very popular in the 1950s and 60s.
③ the accult