课程与教学论期末考试题

课程与教学论部分

Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false. Write a T in the brackets if it is true or an F if it is false. (15 points. 1 point for each other)

1.Interaction and experimenting with the language in communication are very important factors for language development. T

2.We should not be tolerant to our L2 learners’ errors when they are trying to

communicate. F

3.Children should start learning English as early as possible even if they are not in

good circumstances. F

4.Different personalities have different aptitude for learning another language. F

5.Motivation and interest in learning are fundamental to ensure success in learning a

foreign language for children. T

6.Faced with the new curriculum, English teachers are expected to change their

views about language which is not a means for communication but a system of linguistic knowledge. F

7.The new English curriculum is designed to promote the students’overall quality. T

8.In order to lay a good foundation for continuing development, more attention

should be given to the students’language skills, knowledge, affects, strategies and culture awareness. T

9. A primary English teacher should be encouraged to use both formative and

summative assessment to evaluate children’s lea rning. T

10.Remembering all the International Phonetic Alphabets can automatically

guarantee good pronunciation. F

11.Children learn best when they are involved both physically and mentally. T

12.Students need to be given detailed grammar rules if they are to learn a foreign

language successfully. F

13.Different seating arrangements allow not only different classroom interactions but

also different learner-teacher relationship. T

14.As for classroom language, an English teacher should use half Chinese and half

English to make himself or herself understood by the children. F

15.A teacher should always speak in a normal voice in English class, for the noisier

the teacher is, the noisier the children will become. F

16.A teacher should raise his\her voice above the noise in order to get quiet in the

classroom. F

17.A class that is in control is not always quiet and a quiet class with a teacher doing

all the talking is not necessarily a good learning environment. T

18.Putting summative and formative assessment together, we will be able to form a

sound basis for checking students’learning and teachers’ teaching. T

19.Formative assessment is mainly based on formal testing, which is done mostly at

the end of a learning period or at the end of a school year. F

20.By constantly reflecting on teaching and learning, the teacher can move towards

professional competence. T

21.The method, known as Total Physical Response, means that children respond to

teachers’ instructions by using gestures, body language or by speaking loudly. F 22.Children’s attention spa n is very short, thus many long activities are used instead

of short and simple ones. F

23.There is no point in explaining complicated grammar rules to children, for they

are not good at analyzing language rules. T

24.Children like to do things with difficult learning targets because they want to feel

sure that it is not something beyond their ability. F

25.One language form may express a number of communicative functions and one

communicative function cannot be expressed by a variety of language forms. F https://www.360docs.net/doc/4816023601.html,municative competence entails knowing not only the language code or the

form of the language but also knowing how to use the language appropriately in social situations. T

27.The English teaching objectives are to develop students overall language abilities

which are composed of language knowledge, language skills, affect, learning strategies as well as cross-cultural awareness for relevant levels. T

28.It is believed that poor pronunciation may cause problems for the learning of other

skills. T

29.Children do not need to learn grammar rules when they acquire their first

language, so they do not need them either when learning a foreign language. F 30.Teaching and learning grammar should focus on practice rather than the study of

grammar itself. T

https://www.360docs.net/doc/4816023601.html,nguages consist of “words” with equivalents from one language to another. F

32.English-English explanations are the best way for vocabulary teaching. F

33.Reading is a silent activity. Reading aloud does not help much with

comprehension. T

34.When we read, our eyes should constantly move from letter to letter, word to word

and sentence to sentence. F

35.It is helpful to use a dictionary to check and note down the meaning of all the new

words while reading. F

36.Possessing a large amount of vocabulary is the key for reading comprehension. F

37.It is not necessary to pre-plan the instruction or support the instruction by pictures,

demonstrations, or examples. F

38.We should expect our students to produce accurate language every time they

speak. F

39.Asking the students to predict or guess the meaning of a word in certain context

before explaining it to them is one way to consolidate new words. F

40.The main advantage of task-based teaching is that language is used for a genuine

purpose that real communication should take place. T

41.Making errors will lead to bad habit formation, so we should correct them

whenever they occur. F

42.As a learner of English, you will be forgiven for errors of inappropriateness if you

can speak good English. F

43.The English curriculum at the primary phase is designed into 2 levels. Level 1

covers Grade 4, Level 2 covers Grade 6. F

Multiple choice .Choose from the given choices the correct one and write the corresponding letter in the answer sheet. ( 15points, 1 point for each choice )

D 1. Activities can usually “stir ” a class and can also “settle ” it .Which of the following activities is a “stirrer”?

A. Ask the whole class to copy a list of food words onto a piece of paper from the board.

B. Children open the book and practice the dialogue and ready for an acting out.

C. Stick a list of flashcards on the board with number given to each card. Ask the

pupils to listen and write down the number of the picture they hear.

D. The teacher puts the cards together and takes away one of them and asks the

pupils to guess what she has got on her flashcards by saying to the children “guess what I have got on my flashcards”.

D 2. Which of the following activities are best done for individual work?

A. Story-telling

B. guessing games

C. information-gap activity

D. reading silently

A 3. Which of the following activities are best done with group work.

A. drama performance

B. reading aloud

C. writing a letter or e-mail

D. presenting new language

C 4. Below is a classroom extract. Which error-correction method is used?

A. direct teacher correction

B. whole class correction

C. self-correction

D. peer correction

C 5. The following are things that teachers often do in a language classroom. Decide what role the teacher is playing.

A. controller

B. assessor

C. prompter

D. resource-provider

B 6. The following are what teachers often do in a language classroom. Decide what role the teacher is playing.

The teacher asks students to produce conversations (either orally or in writing) by using particular patterns or expressions they have just learned.

A. assessor

B. controller

C. prompter

D. participant

D 7. The following are what teachers often do in a language classroom. Decide what role the teacher is playing.

While doing a writing task either individually or in groups, the students need to use a particular word they don’t know. So they ask the teacher.

A. assessor

B. prompter

C. organiser

D. resource-provider

A 8. Which of the following activities is best for whole class work ?

A. summarizing learning

B. performing an information-gap task

C. writing a letter or e-mail

D. reading silently

B 9. Which measure is the most appropriate for the teacher to take if the class seem to be getting out of control, or if discipline occurs due to inappropriacy of the activity?

A. stopping the class

B. changing the activity

C. shouting loudly

D. dealing with it immediately

D 10. Which of the following ways to solve disciplines problems have proved not useful or effective except ______?

A. using threats and shouting loudly

B. giving written homework

C. putting them in the corridor

D. creating a code of behavior

C 11. To develop the skill of listening for gist, which of the following activity should not be included?

A. deciding upon a title

B. sequencing the main points

C. filling in some blanks with the words in the text

D. writing a brief summary

B 12. Many proponents of the Communicative Approach advocate the use of ______

materials in the language classroom.

A. classic

B. authentic

C. modern

D. oral

D 13. Single out the statement that can not be classified into the category of the

language skills.

A. Automatic decoding skills

B. Sufficient amount of vocabulary

C. Adequate knowledge of grammar

D. Relevant background

B 14. Please identify the follow ing students’ reading approach.

The reading approach used by Tom is _____.

A. top-down approach

B. the bottom-up approach

C. the interactive approach

D. the elective approach

C 15. For the production stage in teaching, there is _____.

A. no information gap activities

B .no role play activities

C. an emphasis on fluency and use

D. an emphasis on correctness

A 16. According to the PPP model, which speaking activity in the following would

most probably appear at the production stage of the oral class teaching?

A. Discussion

B. Repetition

C. Gapped dialogue

D. Reading and acting

A 17. Which of the following is characteristic of children in learning a foreign

language?

A. They pay more attention to meaning than to form

B. They have a clear purpose in learning a foreign language

C. They can monitor their own learning.

D. They can concentrate for a long time in class

A 18. Which of the following activities are best done with pair work?

A. Information gap

B. Guessing game

C. Watching videos

D. Role-play

D 19. Which of the following helps assess language performances?

A. Asking students to reflect on what activities attract them most.

B. Asking students about their attitudes towards a certain game.

C. Asking students to draw pictures according to description.

D. Asking students to do a quiz at the end of the lesson.

C 20. Which of the following is suitable for speaking?

A. TPR actions

B. Recognizing pictures

C. Information gap D .Matching pictures with descriptions

C 21 In which stage of the presentation – practice - production approach will students

have the chance to use the new language freely and incorporate it into their existing language?

A. Presentation stage

B. Practice stage

C. Production stage

D. Presentation and practice stage

C 22. What role does a teacher take to create an environment in which learning can take place ?

A. Instructor

B. Prompter

C. Manager

D. Assessor

C 23. The following principles except ______ are used for designing activities used in the primary classroom.

A. Children learn best when feeling happy and secure.

B. Children learn best when they are involved both physically and mentally.

C. Children don’t need plenty of opportunities to use similar language again and

again.

D. Children learn the whole language rather than through analyzing language

rules.

D 24. Mentally-engaged activities require children to think hard while doing them.

Which of the following activities belongs to it?

A. Reading aloud

B. Coping or colouring

C. Repeating the sentence

D. Guessing games

A 25. What is the teacher doing by saying "Now you are going to do this in pairs."?

A. Setting up tasks.

B. Controlling discipline.

C. Demonstrating.

D. Getting feedback.

A 26. Which role does the teacher play in the following activities?

When the students are doing a group-work task, the teacher joins one or two groups for a short period of time.

C.participant B. assessor

C. source of help

D. controller

B 27. In the process of the PPP model teaching, the amount of the teacher’s control

is expected to ______ as the activities progress from accuracy-focused to

fluency-focused.

A. increase

B. decrease

C. remain

D. lose

D 28. What strategy does the following activity help to train reading?

Locating the specific information.

A. skimming

B. inferring

C. word-guessing

D. scanning

C 29. Which reading skill is the teacher using in reading?

The teacher asks the students to try to guess information or ideas that go beyond the literal meaning of the text.

B.recognizing organization of the text B. predicting

C. inferring or reading between the lines

D. scanning

A 30. To memorize vocabulary by reading and repeating aloud is______ than to memorize them in context.

A. less effective

B. more effective

C. much easier

D. much quicker

C 31. Which of the following can train listening?

A. Sequencing the pictures.

B. Writing captions for pictures.

C. TPR= Total Physical Response

D. Matching titles with different paragraphs.

B 32.

The reading approach used by Tom is ______ .

A. a bottom-up approach

B. a top-down approach

C. an eclectic approach

D. an interactive approach

D 33. What approach is based on the study of texts in the target language, which has to be explained in the mother tongue and then translated?

A. the communicative approach

B. the humanistic approach

C. the functional-notional approach

D. the grammar-translation method

C 34. When we read newspapers and magazines, specialized articles, teaching materials, dictionaries, what kind of purpose are we having for reading?

A. Reading for survival

B. Reading for entertainment

C. Reading for learning and information

D. Reading for pleasure

C 35. What role does the teacher play in the deductive presentation of grammar?

A. Participant

B. Prompter

C. Instructor

D. Assessor

D 36. Which of the following grammar instruction is inductive?

A. Explain the structure and usage of passive voice to the students.

B. Ask students to read grammar books and tell the rules of passive voice in class.

C. Let students practice applying the rule to produce sentences with given prompts.

D. Ask students to read the passage and find out the rules for passive voice.

A 37. In the classroom, we should try to design authentic communicative activities. The following activities except ______ are all communicative activities.

A. drilling exercises

B. information gap activities

C. role-play activities

D. mini-research and questionnaires

Case analysis

The Lead-in skills of English teaching play an important role in improving the teaching results. Please examine the problem with the following Lead-in part and help the teacher to find the problem, then improve it.

Teaching contents: Hobbies

Jane: What are your hobbies, Lily?

Lily: Well, I like music and painting. What about you?

Jane: I like music, too. And I also like collecting stamps.

Lily: How interesting! Jim likes collecting coins. Do you know that?

Jane: Really?

Lily: Yes, we can collect a lot of other things.

Lead in:

1.Sing the song “We are happy bees.”

2.Free talk

T: Are you happy now, boys and girls?

Ss: (学生一时不知怎么回答，有的说Y es, 有的说No，教师尴尬地笑了笑) T: I’ve got some presents for you. They’re in the box. Can you guess what’s in the box?

S1: Perhaps it’s a cake.

Ss: Biscuits/ Sweets? Flowers… . （学生七嘴八舌、漫无边际地猜想）

T: (打开盒子) Look, some chocolate. I’ll give you some chocolate after class.

T: Hello, do you like playing basketball?

Ss: （学生又是一愣）Y es.

(接着老师便呈现新课)

Case analysis

2.Please examine the problem with the following speaking instructions and help the teacher to find the problem, then improve the instructions.

In an oral class, a teacher asks students to answer questions. To ensure smooth progress of his lesson, he always asks the excellent students to answer questions.

Case analysis

3.There are different ways and techniques for correcting errors. The following is an example that a teacher is trying to correct the students’errors. Are you in favour of the way? Please give your opinions.

T: Can you tell us something about your father, Tom?

S: My father is 40 years old. He is very high. He is a doctor. He works in our City Hospital.

T: Oh, good. V ery good, Tom. Y ou said your father is very high? What word can we use instead of High?

S: Y es, Tall. He is tall.

T: Wonderful, Tom.

Case analysis

4. Teaching objective is one of the basic components that a lesson should have. Please examine the problem with the following teaching objectives and help the teacher to find the problem, then improve them.

Teaching contents: The first period of Unit 2 Public Signs from Oxford Primary English. The text is about learning some public signs such as “Keep quiet!” , “Keep off the grass!”, “Danger” etc.

Teaching objectives:

1.To learn the new words: always, must, away, should, cage, noise ….

2.To learn the sentence pattern:

1) It means we ….

2) Y ou must/ should/ shouldn’t ….