TEFL STUDY PREP (R)

The fact that our children are still learning to manage their L1 phonological system can bring problems with regards to the L2:

Articulation and pronunciation patterns.

Which of the following is not an element in the mnemonic 'SMART'?

Assessed

When assessing students' oral skills, a useful tool can be:

Checklists

When we encourage the development of international, multicultural, gender, and indigenous and other perspectives, we are fostering the value of:

Diversity

Which of the following would not be a practical lesson planning tip?

Don't add variety

Which language does not use markings on letters "diacritics"?

English

Which of the following should not be the focus of reading in an EFL classroom?

Enjoyment of literature

A cloze activity is an example of a free, uncontrolled activity.

False

A teacher cannot influence a student's learning strategy.

False

A worksheet is usually in the form of an index card.

False

An error is often considered to be a spoken or written slip committed by a non-native or native speaker who, once the slip is pointed out, would be able to self-correct.

False

As learner autonomy increases, learner motivation decreases.

False

Subjective tests are tests where there is a right answer.

False

Which of the following approaches would not influence and drive learner motivation?

Keeping to the same topics and tasks

Which of the following statements about adverbs is untrue?

They can describe nouns and pronouns

'The room is like a furnace' is an example of a simile.

True

A lexical set is a group of words with the same topic, function or form.

True

A minimal pair is a pair of words that differ in only one phoneme (each meaningful sound in a language).

True

A warmer is any relevant activity that helps us start the lesson in an interesting way.

True

An assessment is valid if it measures what it is supposed to measure

True

An interview activity is an example of a free, uncontrolled activity.

True

Aspect refers to how an event or action is to be viewed with respect to time, rather than to its actual location in time.

True

Class projects are most suitable for whole class work.

True

Effective learners take steps to become autonomous.

True

English is a non-tonal language.

True

English is at the core of international communication.

True

Functions are speech acts that students are likely to face, e.g. seeking advice.

True

If you are teaching young people, use learning style systems and methods with care.

True

Impulsiveness rewards 'thinking on your feet' and being the first to speak.

True

In Japan, students are expected to be silent and passive learners.

True

In a norm-referenced test, a student's success is determined by his position in relation to the other students who also took the test.

True

In general, the level of language needed for a discussion should be lower than that used in intensive language-learning activities in the same class.

True

Keeping notes on the learners' performance during particular classroom tasks is a typical type of formative assessment.

True

Lexis is a somewhat wider concept than vocabulary and consists of words, phrases, collocations, chunks and formulaic expressions.

True

Multiple choice tests are objective tests.

True

Often, indiscipline arises due to confusion over teacher and students' roles and expectations.

True

Realia are real-life, authentic language materials.

True

Reliability means that if the same students are given the same test on two different occasions (and marked by the same or different markers) they will achieve the same or very similar scores.

True

Speaking lessons should follow a pattern of warm-up, presentation, practice and production.

True

Standardising the assessment process and operationalising the internal verification system is not the same as standardising consistency in assessment decisions.

True

Supplementary materials are books and other materials we can use in addition to the classroom text.

True

The future perfect tense indicates that by the time of a specified future event, the verb's action will have been completed.

True

The primary purpose of feedback is to motivate learners when they are doing well.

True

There is no single 'best' questioning strategy

True

When something is conditional, that means it is dependent on something else that is only imagined in order to occur.

True

Sounds made with the mouth open and the airway unobstructed are:

Vowel sounds

In the statement, 'I put it down to the weather', the underlined part is an example of:

a phrasal verb

The name for extra letters added to nouns, verbs and adjectives in their different grammatical forms is:

inflection

The major 4 word classes are:

nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

The English language has how many tenses?

12 tenses

The learning style approach we recommend does not include a category for:

Activist learners

In this course, which of the following statements about aims and objectives is untrue?

An objective describes what the learners will be able to do with the language by the end of the lesson

Which of the following is not a category of pronouns?

Coordinating pronouns

Which of the following pronunciation teaching techniques is unlikely to be effective?

Covering pronunciation in isolation

Which of the following types of writing is generally least important for students who are learning a second language?

Creative writing

Which of the following statements about prescriptive and descriptive grammar is correct?

Descriptive grammar seeks to describe how language is actually used in the real world

Which of the following is not a specific characteristic of the English Language?

Difficult to learn

When teaching speaking, you will be guiding your students to attain accuracy more than fluency.

False

When teaching writing in the EFL classroom, it is quite likely that many of your students will be competent in constructing paragraphs.

False

When giving effective instructions, you should:

Model the activity

When speaking English, we use:

More vowel and consonant sounds than the letters we write

Which of the following statements about motivation is untrue?

Motivation lasts all of the time

Learners' enthusiasm for learning can be reached and maintained namely by means of:

Praising their effort.

Which alphabet does the English Language use?

The Latin alphabet

Which of the following statements about sentence stress rules is untrue?

The time between stressed words is always different

Intrinsic motivation is:

The urge to engage in a learning activity for its own sake

Which of the following statements about effective learners is untrue?

They are unwilling to take risks

A visual learner is likely to be good at spelling.

True

At the end of a term or course, we may assess learners to see how well they have learned the contents of the whole term's work or the whole course. This kind of assessment is called formative assessment, much like a formal exam.

False

Constructive feedback means only giving positive feedback (praise)

False

Cultural rules regarding proximity are the same in all cultures.

False

Denotation is an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

False

Every culture has the same norms for the distance between two people standing and conversing

False

Groups have the greatest opportunity to use communicative skills.

False

If teachers want to be strict and maintain discipline during the entire lesson, they should avoid incorporating tasks in which children shout, compete and move around the class.

False

In language teaching and learning, the term "Realia" refers to the real-life like tasks learners should be exposed to in the classroom.

False

In the English language, there is a predictable correspondence between word sound and word spelling.

False

L2 is a student's native language.

False

Modals cannot express degrees of probability.

False

One of the primary aims of standardisation is, where possible, to improve validity.

False

Research has shown that all children are able to acquire language contents and rules quite rapidly regardless of their age.

False

Reviewing homework during class time in a selective fashion is an example of a pacing issue.

False

Sometimes learners take external tests to see how good they are at a language. This kind of test is called a diagnostic test; examples are the TOEFL and the IELTS tests.

False

Successful practice is a clear indication that the language learners have made the transition from 'students' of the key language item they have learned to 'users' of the language.

False

Supplementary materials do not come from authentic sources.

False

The 'traditional rows' seating arrangement is student-centred.

False

The Production stage is where the focus is on the learners' output, facilitated and controlled by the teacher.

False

The clause is a shorter unit within the phrase.

False

The goal of pronunciation in the CLT classroom is the attainment of 'perfect' pronunciation.

False

When correcting, try to mark everything.

False

You can assume that your expectations of the classroom will be the same as the learners' expectations.

False

Which of the following statements about gestures is true?

Gestures can be used to elicit certain words and phrases

L1 command helps primary schoolers because they have already internalized a language structure in terms of:

Grammar and vocabulary

What additional attribute do we think should be included within the definition of the word 'competent'?

Habits

What does assessing our students authentically imply?

Have them perform a real-life like task applying language competences

What type of listening tasks correspond to the "Listen and do" category?

Imitations of spoken texts

Which element of speech is the movement of the level of the voice, i.e. the tune of a sentence or a group of words?

Intonation

Which of the following statements about eliciting is invalid?

It increases students' fear of guessing

Which of the following statements about speaking is untrue?

Its form and meaning are not dependent on the context in which it occurs

The ultimate purpose of assessment has to do with:

Learning evidence, objective achievement, teaching effectiveness

When students are in full flow and are communicating, what should we do?

Let it run even if there are mistakes

Outside world' activities:

Make language study more meaningful and motivating

'The apple of my eye' is an example of:

Metaphor

In which stage of the lesson are learners helped to understand the form, meaning, pronunciation and usage of the new language?

Presentation

In which stage of the lesson will learners be involved in communicative tasks where fluency rather than accuracy is the objective?

Production

When a teacher and her students develop a feeling of harmony, well-being and security towards each other, this is a sign of:

Rapport existing

Concept checking should/can

Should not use the target language within the question

Which of the following is unlikely to be a barrier to listening for a language learner?

Speaker speaks too slowly

Which of the following is unlikely to be an important body language tip?

Stand behind your table when classes arrive