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1. Which approach to language teaching anchors on the behaviorist assumption that language learning is the acquisition of a set of corrects language habits and whose goal is to use the target language communicatively, overlean it, so as to be able to use it automatically?

A. Grammar-Translation Method

B. Direct Method

C. Suggestopedia

D. Audio-lingual Method

ANS: D. Audio-lingual Method

-GTM-structural; DM communicative, teacher directed; Suggestopedia-humanistic)

2. The curriculum goes through the stages of curriculum planning, curriculum implementation and evaluation; the production of instructional materials falls under ______________________.

A. curriculum planning and implementation

B. curriculum planning and evaluation

C. curriculum planning

D. curriculum evaluation

ANS: C. curriculum planning

-The other choices are carried out during and after implantation

3. An important step in ensuring the relevance of the instructional materials to the rest of the curriculum is to keep a list of _________________.

A. policies issued by DepEd

B. visions and missions of the school

C. goals and objective of the curriculum

D. curriculum standards

ANS: C. goals and objective of the curriculum

-The other choices are broad statements to serve as basis in establishing relevance of instructional materials

4. Which type of syllabus is given examples by the following activities: writing notes and memos, reports, agendas, letters to companies, and reply letters?

A. Situational syllabus

B. Grammatical syllabus

C. Task-based syllabus

D. Topical syllabus

ANS: C. Task-based syllabus

-Situation syllabus uses situations; grammatical syllabus uses grammar points whereas topical syllabus uses content topics of an area of discipline.

5. Which is NOT a goal of K to 12 language teaching in secondary level?

A. To link life, literature, and language and to integrate themes, texts and tasks

B. To gain mastery of language forms and rules of usage

C. To home independent study strategies through prescribes tasks.

D. To use differentiated instruction to accommodate varied learners’ strategies

ANS: C. To home independent study strategies through prescribes tasks.

- Tasks are varied and relative to the needs of the learners

6. The primary aim of the second language teaching using the audiolingual method is _________.

A. reading comprehension

B. vocabulary development

C. literary appreciation

D. oral proficiency

ANS: D. oral proficiency

-ALM emphasize correct pronunciation and repetition of the target language

7. Which of the following concepts is/are correctly defined?

I. A curriculum includes the philosophy, purpose, design and implementation of a whole program.

II. A course is an integrated series of teaching learning experience, whose ultimate aim is to lead the learners to a particular state of knowledge.

III. A syllabus is the specification and ordering of content of a course or courses.

A. I only

B. II only

C. I, II

D. I, II, III

ANS: D. I,,II,III

- All of the above

8. A teaching practice which is compatible with Communicative Approach is one that ______.

A. derives and makes explicit the grammatical rules of the language

B. addresses the needs of the target learners

C. follows the listen-speak-read-write sequence of skills

D. gives priority to oral proficiency

ANS: C. follows the listen-speak-read-write sequence of skills

- Learners are exposed to comprehensible input, before they acquire the language and render it as an output.

9. The K to 12 language teaching in secondary school can be described as follows EXCEPT it _______________.

A. is literature-based and genre-focused

B. uses literary and informative texts

C. uses culminating performance tasks

D. focuses on common areas of difficulty in grammar

ANS: A. is literature-based and genre-focused

-The other choices are features of K to 12 language teaching in secondary level

10. Newspaper articles, advertisement, radio announcement etc in the real world when used in the classroom situations are classified as _______.

A. authentic materials

B. mass communication materials

C. audio-visual aids

D. recycled materials

ANS: A. authentic materials

-The other materials are intended for classroom use.

11. A plan of what to be achieved through the teaching and learning process which contains the course description, objectives, the prerequisites the requirements and the topics to be taught is the _____.

A. course outline

B. curriculum guide

C. course syllabus

D. lesson plan

ANS: C. course syllabus

- The other choices do not contain the same components

12. Which of the following DOES NOT characterized the direct method language teaching?

A. It allows errors and these errors are addressed by self-correction

B. The teacher illustrates and demonstrates meaning

C. The target language is used as an auxiliary/support language

D. The language is viewed as spoken than written.

ANS: C. The target language is used as an auxiliary/support language

- The DM does not allow translation or use of native language (L1)

13. The content of the language teaching in this type of syllabus is a collection of specific abilities that may play part in using language. Which is referred to?

A. Skill-based syllabus

B. Task-based syllabus

C. Content-based syllabus

D. Notional-functional syllabus

ANS:  A. Skill-based syllabus

-TBS uses holistic and life-like task CBS, uses content/topics of a discipline and NFS uses concepts and functions of language

14. The teacher uses a contemporary and highly relevant song in presenting a lesson on conditional clauses. She provides activity sheets in which students indicated their regretful experience and the possible outcome has they not done a certain regretful act. Then, the students were assigned in pair to share with a partner what they have written. The use of the song the work sheet, the pair to share with a partner what they have written. The use of the song, the worksheet, pair group the teacher and the students talk are provisions of what which hypothesis in Krashen’s Monitor model?

A. Affective filter 

B. Monitor output

C. Comprehensible input

D. Natural Order

ANS: C. Comprehensible input

- Affective filter is concerned with the motivational aspect of language learning; The monitor deals with editing or correction; and the Natural Order deals with the natural sequence of acquired language  forms.

15. Which conventional maximum is violated in this utterance? In the classroom, the students are n noisy; the teacher spoke loud, “Class, I really appreciate your behaving quietly today. You see we can smoothly and clearly discuss our lesson.”

A. Quality

B. Quantity

C. Relation

D. Manner

ANS: A. Quality

- This item measures understanding of a pragmatic theory. Paul Grice (1975) explained that an utterance can elicit an implicature, which is not part of the utterance and does not follow a necessary consequences, if any of the conventional is violated(Parker and Riley 2010)> Further the process of violating a conventional maxim as “flouting.” Conventions according to the cooperative principle by Grice (Parker and Riley 2010) are governed by the following maxims: (1) Quantity (The participants contribution should be informative); (2) Quality (The participants contribution should be true); (3) Relation (the contribution should be clear) in the given item, the teacher flouted the maxim of quality because the teacher’s contribution in the conversation s definitely not true.

16. The aspect communicative competence that deals with the appropriate use of communication and coping strategies is known as _______ competence.

A. Which discourse

B. sociolinguistic

C. grammatical

D. strategic

ANS: D. strategic

- Canale and swain (1980) identify grammatical competence (words and rules). Sociolinguistic competence (appropriateness social context or situation) discourse competence (cohesion and coherence logical organization) and strategic competence of communication competence.

17. Which generalization in the area of phonology can be drawn from the following linguistic data: table, attack, can, paper, space, accordion?

A. A voiceless stop is aspired if it begins a syllable of a stressed vowel

B. A voiceless stop is aspirated if it begins a syllable of a stressed vowel

C. A voiceless stop is aspirated if it is in between a constant and a voiced

D. A voiceless stop is aspirated id it is in between a stressed vowel and a voiced constant.

ANS: A. A voiceless stop is aspired if it begins a syllable of a stressed vowel

-In phonology, voiceless stops [p], [t], [k] can be aspirated [+aspirated] or [ʰ] when they begin a syllable and are followed by a stressed vowel (Parker and Riley 2010). The [t] in “attack” [k] in “can”, [p] in “paper” and [k] in “accordion” satisfy the generalization. The [p] in “space” does not begin the syllable.

18. Which of the following has a glottal segment?

A. Hot

B. Sad

C. Mat

D. Dam

ANS: A. HOT

-Glottal refers to the space between the vocal cords in which the primary constriction is at the glottis (Parker and Riley, 2010); /s/ is alveolar, /m/ is bilabial and /d/ is alveolar.

19. The study if illocutionary acts is an area of ________________.

A. Pragmatics

B. semantics

C. morphology

D. syntax

ANS: pragmatics

- Pragmatics is the study of how language is affected by the context in which occurs an illocutionary act

20. Mary thinks that she is the only girls who can sing the song. Obviously, “she” refers to Mary. What concept in referential semantics explains the italicized word?

A. Deixis

B. Anaphora

C. Coreference

D. Prototype

ANS:  B. Anaphora

- An anaphora refers to a linguistic expression that must have another linguistic expression to refer to (Parker and Riley 2010) e.g. reflective pronouns refers to linguistic expression Mary bought herself a book “Here self” refers systematically to two or more distinct entities (e.g.  “you” and “I” ma have different referents depending on who is speaking). Coreference refers to the condition of two expressions of two expressions having the same referent (e.g., P-Noy” and “President of the Philippines

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