TEFL CERT. QUIZZES
What does Impulsiveness reward?
'thinking on your feet' and being the first to speak is
Small group work provides:
-opportunities for learners to use their language skills and is often less intimidating than whole group work. -can be set up according to interest or ability, and need not be equal in size or permanent.
What is a clause?
A group of related words used together as part of a sentence. Contains subject and verb.
What level of language is needed for a discussion, than that used in intensive language-learning activities in the same class?
A lower level of language is needed for what type of class? rather than a higher level for intensive language-learning activities.
Diagnostic test
A test given at the beginning of a course to see what the students know and don't know. helps teachers decide what to teach and determine which learners have certain strengths and weaknesses.
Common pacing issues include:
Allowing an activity that is working well to take far too much additional time Giving too many examples to illustrate a teaching point Relying too much on drawings/diagrams on the whiteboard/blackboard, which can slow the lesson down Reviewing homework during class time in a non-selective fashion Trying to teach for mastery of each learning point- sometimes a reasonably good grasp of a point is good enough Addressing questions at length, particularly questions that are outside of the topic being discussed Allowing pairs and groups to work without a clearly defined time limit
What are the roles of teachers?
Assessor: Controller:Facilitator:Guide: Manager: Materials producer: Monitor:Motivator:Needs analyst:Planner/organizer:
What are forms of student centered seating?
Circle, horse shoe, square, groups
Whole class work includes:
Class projects
Cloze is what kind of exercise?
Closed exercise where Words are omitted from a passage at regular intervals (for example, every seventh word). Usually the first two or three lines are given with no gaps to establish a context for the student.
The Additional attributes "KASH" KNOWL,ABIL,SKILL,HAB - are a part of what in learning a new language?
Competency
What are examples of a free/uncontrolled activity?
Describing a picture Short drama/skit Presenting an argument (ensure the topic is culturally appropriate) Giving a speech/report Debate (ensure the topic is culturally appropriate) Discussion (ensure the
In the English language, there is a predictable correspondence between word sound and word spelling.
False, there is not a predictable correspondence between word sound and word spelling in what language?
A free un-controlled activity consists of what types of materials/games?
Interview activity,
Type of formative assessment:
Keeping notes on the learners' performance during particular classroom tasks is a typical type of which assessment?
How should you use learning styles and methods teaching young people?
Make sure to review and asses the effectiveness of learning styles. Especially with what kind of student?
How should you give effective instructions?
Model the activity (to give what?)
What is effective concept checking?
Not using the target language within the question is effective for what?
Practical lesson planning tips include:
Plan carefully, don't wing it, (If you fail to plan, you plan to fail), It usually turns out fine, Keep it tight(bullet points), keep it clear and simple(number clearly/don't sub-divide) Don't depend on memory(use examples), add variety, adapt format,
Which stage focuses on the learner's output, facilitated and controlled by the teacher?
Practice stage
In which stage of the lesson are learners helped to understand the form, meaning, pronunciation and usage of the new language?
Presentation stage
In which stage of the lesson will learners be involved in communicative tasks where fluency rather than accuracy is the objective?
Production stage
Every culture has the same norms for the distance between two people standing and conversing.
Select one: cultural norms are all the same True False Correct
What are the elements of S.M.A.R.T?
Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timely
At the end of term, what type of assessment may be given?
Summative assessment or formal assessment. This is to see how well they learned/retained the content of the whole term.
What influences a student's learning strategy?
Teachers, showing students more than one way to learn, cater to different learner strategies not just styles, try to vary how they teach across a series of lessons or classes so that they can match the learning characteristics of a range of students most of the time. What do these things influence?
Proficiency Tests are:
Tests taken externally by students to see how good they are at a language.
How many tenses does the english language have?
There are 12 tenses in what language?
Different types of learning style approaches are:
These are: a. activist learners b. visual learners c. auditory learners d. kinesthetic learners
Formative assessment
This assessment is given after part of a course is taught to discover the students mastery of material given. Also known as a "Progress test"
What is a visual learner likely to be good at?
This type of learner would be good at spelling:
In teaching speaking what is the key goal?
To attain fluency over accuracy (Is the key goal of what teaching aspect?)
What is the primary focus of feedback?
To motivate learners when they are doing well. It can be oral or written. formal or informal. From a peer. This is the primary focus of what?
Describe speaking
WHAT DO THESE ASPECTS DESCRIBE a. It requires that learners know how to produce specific points of language such as grammar b. It is often spontaneous, open-ended, and evolving c. It is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving and processing information
What pattern should speaking lessons follow?
Warm-up, presentation, practice, production is the pattern for what type of lesson?
As learner autonomy increases, what happens to learner motivation?
What also increases as Learner motivation increases?
What is A lexical set?
What is a group of words with the same topic, function or form?
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?
What is: a. Intonation
What is prescriptive grammar?
What is: 'rules' are the 'right' rules, according to some 'experts', e.g. Never start a sentence with 'And'. make a value judgment about the correctness of an utterance i.e. they set out what we should or shouldn't say.
What is a minimal pair?
What is: a pair of words that differ in only one phoneme (each meaningful sound in a language).
What is a determiner?
What is: anything that serves to quantify a noun (The cat) (My shoes) determiner = the/my
What is connotation?
What is: the associations, or positive or negative feelings, which a lexical item evokes. It is an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning, e.g. the word discipline has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression for some people.
What is Denotation?
What is: the literal meaning or dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative or associated meanings.
sentence stress rules state:
What rules are these? a. Structure words are usually unstressed c. Content words are stressed d. The time between stressed words is always the same
What should reading in the EFL classroom consist of?
What should consist of: b. Understanding of the language c. Language manipulation d. Language acquisition
What is Pair work's greatest opportunity?
What type of classwork has the greatest opportunity to use communicative skills.
Characteristics of effective(autonomous) learners:
What type of learner do these characteristics belong? b. They take responsibility for the learning c. They find a style of learning that suits them d. They try to figure out how the language works
Good constructive feedback includes:
increases self-awareness, offers guidance and encourages development; Negative or critical feedback given skillfully can be very important and useful
What kind of communication is English at the core of?
international communication.
What is Lexis?
is a somewhat wider concept than vocabulary and consists of words, phrases, collocations, chunks and formulaic expressions.
What are modals used for?
(What expresses) degrees of probability. used in a variety of ways to enable the speaker to express feelings about, for example, the probability of an event, or the ability of a person to carry out a certain action or the level of an obligation - but not the actuality of it happening. Other uses are to express one's attitude, politeness, or advice; also used for making requests or giving permission.
pronunciation teaching techniques include:
What type of teaching are these techs. used for? b. Getting students to listen and imitate c. Encouraging usage of the Phonemic Chart d. Giving students lots of practice
What does descriptive grammar seek to do?
What: seeks to describe how language is actually used in the real world ? Is not a stickler for the rules
When students are in full flow and are communicating, what should we do?
When should we Let students speak even if there are mistakes
Can you assume that your expectations of the classroom will be the same as the learners' expectations.
You and your students expectations are not the same
A learning style is
a more or less consistent way in which a person perceives, conceptualizes, organizes and recalls information.
What does eliciting do?
a. It reduces the need for often unwieldy teacher explanations b. It gives the teacher a chance to diagnose weaknesses d. It keeps the students alert
specific characteristics of the English Language
a. Its receptiveness b. Latin alphabet c. Continuous tense
What are statements of motivation
a. Motivation should be multi-directional c. You need to be motivated to motivate the student d. Everyone can be motivated in some way or another These are statements of??
What are important body language tips?
a. Project your voice in the classroom b. Use the whole classroom d. Stand next to misbehaving students
What are important types of writing for ESL students
a. Self-writing b. Display writing d. Imitative writing
What are the categories of pronouns?
a. Subject pronouns c. Object pronouns d. Reflexive pronouns
Which alphabet does the English Language use?
a. The Latin alphabet is used in what language
What can adverbs do?
a. They can modify verbs b. They can provide information about time, manner and place d. They can modify adjectives
The name for extra letters added to nouns, verbs and adjectives in their different grammatical forms is:
a. what is inflection
What is the warm-up stage
any relevant activity that helps us start the lesson in an interesting way
What are Functions
are speech acts that students are likely to face, e.g. seeking advice.
What do supplementary materials come from?
authentic sources
Which language does not use markings on letters "diacritics"?
b. English does not use what markings
listening barriers for language learners are:
b. Inability to distinguish the key elements from the unimportant parts of the message c. Inability to adequately distinguish particular sounds d. Lack of familiarity with commonly used vocabulary are what kind of barriers?
Describe aims and objectives
b. Objectives are the steps you take to achieving your aim c. You could have one overall aim and some secondary aims d. An aim describes what the learners will be able to do with the language by the end of the lesson
What approaches could influence and drive learner motivation?
b. Setting clear goals for the students c. Generating tension and challenge d. Making the students aware of their own success These are influencers for what?
When we encourage the development of international, multicultural, gender, and indigenous and other perspectives, we are fostering the value of:
b. diversity
What are supplementary materials?
books and other materials we can use in addition to the classroom text.
In the statement, 'I put it down to' the weather, the underlined part is an example of:
c. a phrasal verb is what?
One reason indiscipline arises is:
confusion over teacher's and student's roles and expectations increases what?
The 4 minor (closed) word classes are:
conjunctions, determiners, prepositions and pronouns are also called 'closed' classes as no new words are being added to this group.
Mistake
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.
For assessors to be reliable they must be:
consistent. consistency is a key for who to be what?
When a teacher and her students develop a feeling of harmony, well-being and security towards each other, this is a sign of:
d. rapport
What is extrinsic motivation?
derived from external incentives and reward and success, e.g. a qualification, need for a high proficiency score (e.g. to gain entry to an English-speaking university, or the desire for higher pay where language proficiency offers that).
A free uncontrolled activity is:
designed to 'activate' the student's learning. Activities ask for a specific student behavior; as such, they are student-centered and focus on promoting learner fluency. There is no single correct answer or outcome to the activity, but several possible open-ended responses. In an activity, the student must create and negotiate his or her own language.
the more realistic goal of pronunciation for the teacher are that her learners:
develop intelligibility (the degree to which the learner's speech can be understood in different language situations) increase communication ability develop increased self-confidence in speaking the language and listening and understanding the language and listening These are realistic goals of what teaching aspect of the teacher for students?
What are assessments?
different kinds of testing activities, and is potentially based on more extended samples of language performance and is likely, in that respect at least, to have greater validity as a measure of overall language proficiency and to be more reliable than the briefer and inevitably more limited sampling taken by tests. Includes feedback from teachers.
What does standardization aim to ensure?
each teacher/assessor consistently makes valid decisions all assessors make the same decision on the same evidence base all candidates are assessed fairly prime aim: improve RELIABILITY.
What are tests?
events, snapshots, relatively brief moments in time in the extended process of learning a language, often standardised and issued at key moments such as the end-of-term or the end of the course.
What is a simile?
express an idea by relating two completely separate concepts. "the room is like a furnace" "as bald as a coot "
What is a metaphor?
expresses an idea by relating two completely separate concepts "The apple of my eye' is an example of"
Sounds made with the mouth open and the airway unobstructed are:
how are vowel sounds made?
Reliability is:
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. This is called what?
Definition of a controlled exercise
is structured and controlled, with a learner's output, or 'answers', limited to either being correct or incorrect. Exercises are designed to focus on a specific point or a specific objective, such as 'fill in the blanks with the correct verb form', and to promote accuracy.
What is L2?
is the learners second language
When something is conditional it means
it is dependent on something else that is only imagined in order to occur. => "If I were a rich man, I would give most of my money to charity."
Error
made by a non-native speaker who does not recognize the wrong and is therefore unable to correct it.
What do outside world' activities do for students?
make language study more meaningful and motivating
What type of language is the English language?
non-tonal language.
The 4 major (open) word classes are:
nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. (Open because they are still being added to.) Are a part of which word class?
What is realia?
real-life, authentic language materials.
What does aspect refer to?
refers to how an event or action is to be viewed with respect to time, rather than to its actual location in time.
Correction
some specific information is provided about aspects of the learner's language performance: through explanation, or suggestion for a better way to express something, or through elicitation of these from the learner. should include what the learner did right and something they can work on.
What does Cross-ability grouping allow? What activities are included?
stronger learners to help others and maximizes complementary learner strengths. jigsaw activities, board games, creation of posters, lists and illustrations, and multimedia projects
How are students expected to be In Japan?
students are expected to be silent and passive learners.
What are Effective learners?
take steps to become autonomous.
What does the future perfect tense indicate?
that by the time of a specified future event, the verb's action will have been completed.
When planning and teaching the multi-level EFL class, as with any adult language class, what must the teacher remember?
that learner perceptions of what constitutes sound language learning may not match those of the teacher. (A teacher must remember this for what?)
What is pacing?
the result of a teacher calculating the time needed in the various lesson stages and the actual amount of time these stages take place in the real time execution of the lesson. can greatly influence the ultimate productivity of a class or lesson.
Intrinsic motivation is:
the urge to engage in a learning activity for its own sake
When speaking English what is our vowel and consonant sound ratio to letters?
there are more vowel and consonant sounds than the letters we write in what language?
What are objective tests?
there is a right answer, carried out via multiple choice, true/false types of questions etc.
What are subjective tests?
there is no right answer and the teacher grades according to her judgement, often judging several skills at the same time, e.g. compositions, role-plays, stories, interviews, spelling, organization of ideas, handwriting etc.
What can gestures be used for in the classroom?
to elicit certain words and phrases you can use:
Norm-referenced tests are:
where a student's success is determined by his position in relation to the other students who also took the test.
