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1. Teacher uses small group games and task; he also asks students to actively listen to music songs, or any conversation in the class. Which of the following explains Teacher Peter practices?

A. Cognitive code approach

B. Communicative approach

C. Counseling-learning approach

D. Task-based English language teaching

ANS: C. Counseling-learning approach

- Counseling learning or something known as CL or CLL (community language learning)  is a product of the humanism movement in language teaching. It focuses on the use of activities and strategies that highlight the affective domain in language learning.                         

2. Teacher Minnie reads about desuggestopedia. Which of the following activities is a practice of desuggestopedia?

A. Drills and Substitution drills

B. Language games and quiz bees

C. Doing task as writing letters, composing, and watching movies

D. Role Play

ANS:  D. Role Play

-Only choice D recognize the students ability to combine arts and language in order to engage the students in the task. The other tasks are controlled by the teacher. Role Play gives the student to decide on their roles and assume a personality that represents their choices in life.

3. Which of the following illustrates “positive transfer” in interlanguage?

A. A Filipino students constructs a sentence in English: Beautiful is Mary.”

B. A Filipino students pronounces “bag” correctly

C. A Filipino students writes sentence: “the book is new”

D. A Filipino student tells “We ate pish (fish) last night”

ANS: C. A Filipino students writes sentence: “the book is new”

-Interlanguage is the learner’s current version of the language they are learning (https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/interlanguage) . It can be influence or interfered by the student’s L1 or first language, Positive transfer occurs if L1 can facilitate the correct acquisition of the target language; negative transfer or error occurs when the student’s L1  is significantly different from L2, therefore, creating the interfere. In this item only choice D reflects the idea: the Filipino language structure “Ang aklat ay bago,” can be translated as “The book is new.”

4. The teacher considers feelings of anxiety, fear and shame that may hinder of second language acquisition. Which method can help the teacher address this concern?

A. CL/CLL

B. Task-based language teaching

C. Communicative language teaching

D. CBI

ANS: A. CL/CLL

- A. CL/CLL is a methodology aligned with the principle of addressing affective domain of language learning TBLT, CBI and CLT focus on the use of content, communication strategies, and thinking processes.

5. Teacher Eric believes that if the students in school would force their habit of speaking in English in the manner they speak Kapangpangan, including accent and vocabulary, it might lead to fossils of errors and eventually lead to a linguistic phenomenon known as _________________.

A. code mixing

B. code switching

C. depidginization

D. pidginization

ANS: Pigdinization

- Pigdinization is the creation of a unique language system among individual who have assimilated the rules and structures of their first language in using another language for communication. Codes witching and code mixing do not necessarily produce a unique language variety and fossilization of errors Depigdinization is the opposite of pigdinization.

6. In which class is codeswitching allowed?

A. Audio-lingual

B. Communicative classroom

C. Grammar-translation class

D. TBLT

ANS: B. Communicative classroom

- In CLT, errors are regarded as natural and are not always corrected. TBLT also focuses on fluency more than accuracy, but correction also take place in the performance of the task Grammar translation method focuses on language accuracy. An ALM class focuses on language accuracy.

7. In which class is CLIL practiced?

A. The class visited a museum in order to create a brochure promoting local tourism

B. The class was divided into small groups in order to brainstorm on a topic for process writing.

C. The teacher used an authentic task for group performance

D. The teacher used graphic organizers to aid comprehension

ANS: D. The teacher used graphic organizers to aid comprehension

- All three classes are based on take place in the language teaching In choice D the students has to work on content and language in learning (CLIL)

8. What is an indication of hypothesis testing in language learning?

A. Acculturation

B. Error

C. Input

D. Utterance

ANS: B. Error

-Error is a manifestation of hypothesis testing in language learning. When learners internalize the structure and test the rule they may commit errors

9. Which of the following is a manifestation of covert grammar teaching?

A. Audio lingual method

B. Communicative language teaching

C. Task-based language teaching

D. Silent way

ANS: A. Audio lingual method

-Primarily, ALM teaches structures covertly, through drills repetitions and substitution. The activity is hinged on the idea that a learner unconscious grasps the structure and eventually builds upon it other possible utterance for communication. CLT, TBLT and silent Way do not focus on grammar. Their primary concern is fluency content and communicative competence

10. Which of the following supports English for Specific Purposes?

A. Competency-based education

B. Organizational competences

C. Peripheral learning

D. Scaffolding in language education

ANS: A. Competency-based education

-ESP is aligned with competency based education. Specialism in English are based on the communication demands of the structure course.

11. What is the implementation of “mutual intelligible” in teaching English?

A. Students cannot distinguished any difference in the different varieties of the language.

B. Student may still understand different varieties of English

C. Students should not be given different varieties of the English language

D. Students will not find it hard to understand a different variety of the English language.

ANS: B. Student may still understand different varieties of English

-Students will still understand a different variety of the language. Two language are said to be dialects of a language if these dialects are mutually intelligible that is speakers may still understand each other although they have different varieties of the same language.

12. Based on principle of artist language acquisition, which of the following should be taught first students?

A. Plural regular

B. Possessive

C. Present progressive

D. Simple present

ANS: C. Present progressive

-Parker and Riley (2010) point out the order of acquisition for grammatical morpheme follows this sequence: present progressive prepositions in and on plural regular past irregular possessive, uncontractible copula (main verb) be, articles a and the past regular  third person singular regular third person singular irregular, uncontractible auxiliary be, contractible auxiliary be, and contractible copula (Main verb) be.

13. In first language acquisition, the following are considered language developmental milestone during the pre-linguistic stage, EXCEPT______________.

A. babbling

B. Metaphor

C. crying

D. echolalia

ANS: D. echolalia

- All items are considered are milestones of pre-linguistic stages. Echolalia is a condition in which a child parrots or repeats utterance he hears.

14. What semantic change is reflected in the word “queer” ? “A queer case was solved by Sherlock Holmes. “  “He is such a queer.”

A. Association

B. Metaphor

C. Pejoration

D. Taboo

ANS: D. Taboo

-Parker and Riley  (2010) list the various types of semantic change: taboo involves stigmatizing a word or phrases; metaphor is extending a word to context outside of its literal sense association in loves change in the association with secondary object or concept pejoration is lowering the connotation of a word.

15. Which of the following sentence is/are incorrect?

A. The safety of a student’s while on a school field trip is something for which teachers are responds for.

B. The safety of the students while on a school field trip is something for which teachers are responsible.

C. The safety of students while on a school field trip is something which teachers are responsible for.

D. Sentence B and C

ANS: C. The safety of students while on a school field trip is something which teachers are responsible for.

- Never double the preposition or particles where they are more “natural” following spoken usage (Malicsi, 2010. P 232.)

16. Which of the following sentence is incorrect?

A. The infamous attack on the World Trade Center happened on September 11, 2001

B. The infamous attack on the World Trade Center happened on 11 September 2001

C. The infamous attack on the World Trade Center happened on 11^th of September, 2001.

D. The infamous attack on the World Trade Center happened on 11 September, 2001.

ANS: B. The infamous attack on the World Trade Center happened on 11 September 2001

-Dates in text may take three forms. All three are correct except option D. A comma should not be used after the month.

17. Noun phrases joined by and are plural. This does not apply when and is followed by not. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

A. Love and not hate makes the world go round

B. Love and hate make the world go around

C. People and not policy is the focus of his analysis

D. People and not policy is the focus of his analysis

ANS: A. Love and not hate makes the world go round

- The noun phrase that follows the negative morpheme does not figure in the agreement rule; the verb agrees with the first noun phrase.

18. Which of the following quantifiers modify plural nouns?

A. Many

B. Each

C. Every

D. Many a

ANS: A. Many

- The quantifiers every each and many a modify singular nouns.

19. The following statements are TRUE about sentence structure EXCEPT ___________.

A. Two words (lexis) that belong to the same category (lexical category) can substitute each other in a sentence.

B. Each words has a limitless range of possible functions.

C. There are restrictions on how the words can combined to form grammatical phrases.

D. Lexical categories can expand into bigger strings of words called ‘phrasal categories

ANS: B. Each words has a limitless range of possible functions.

- There is a limit in the range of possible functions a word may have.

20. The words “off” functions as an adverbial particle in which structure?

A. their on and off relationship

B. We put it off too long

C. Off with you!

D. You’re off the hook

ANS: B. We put it off too long

-The particles Off modifies the verb put (put off)

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