QUESTIONS TOPIC 1

1. Which theory is based on the stimulus-response principle?

a. Behaviourism

b. Cognitivism

c. Generativism

2. Which method derived from Behaviourism?

a. Suggestopedia

b. Audio-lingual method

c. Direct method

3. Who perceived language as an innate ability?

a. Chomsky

b. Skinner

c. Pavlov

4. Which two components made the language, according to Generativism?

a. Surface and line structures

b. Cognitive and deep structures

c. Surface and deep structures

5. Which theory gives more importance to the student´s learning?

a. Structuralism

b. Cognitivism

c. Behaviourism

6. Who is the father of the Cognitivism?

a. Skinner

b. Vygotsky

c. Chomsky

7. In which theory does the teacher appear like a learning facilitator?

a. Constructivism

b. Generativism

c. Conductivism

8. How old are the children in the preoperational stage?

a. Birth to 2 years

b. 2 to 7 years

c. 7 to 11 years

9. How old are the children in the concrete operations stage?

a. 7 to 11 years

b. 11 years and beyond

c. 2 to 7 years

10. Which method gives importance to the relationship between students?

a. CLL

b. TPR

c. CLT

11. For what method is music very important?

a. Grammar translation method

b. Direct method

c. Suggestopedia

12. Who created the Suggestopedia method?

a. Lozanov

b. Curran

c. Rogers

13. In which method are the students defined as functional bilingual at the end of

the Primary Education?

a. CBI models

b. TPR

c. CLT

14. Which activity can be associated with the TPR method?

a. The song “Head and shoulders, knees and toes.

b. Fill in the gaps

c. Translation the following words

15. Which is the most important characteristic of the Silent-Way method?

a. Students and teacher should avoid silent

b. Students are in silent

c. The teacher should be silent

16. Which author proposes that students build their own learning?

a. Piaget

b. Bruner

c. Vygotsky

17. Which author inspired Charles Curran to create the CLL?

a. Rogers

b. Lozanov

c. Vygotsky

18. In the CLL method is very important:

a. The silence

b. The affective component

c. The environment

19. The Grammar translation method focus on:

a. Reading and writing

b. Speaking and listening

c. Reading and speaking

20. “Vocabulary is learnt by memorizing long lists of words”. This method is:

a. Audio-lingual method

b. Direct method

c. Grammar translation method

QUESTIONS TOPIC 2

1. The critical period refers to the issue where:

a) the human brain is particularly adapted for language acquisition during an early period of life.

b) the language learning would be more difficult but not impossible. c) The language learning would be impossible.

2. Which one is true?

a) adult starters outperform children starters in the long run, specifically in naturalistic contexts.

b) Child starters outperform adult starters in the long run, specifically in foreign language contexts.

c) child starters outperform adult starters in the long run, specifically in naturalistic contexts.

3. To learn how to speak correctly:

a) It´s better not to receive phonetic instruction. b) Only children benefit from phonetic instruction. c) Both children and adults benefit from phonetic instruction.

4. In general, children are better learners if teachers …

a) focus on their explicit acquisition processes. b) emphasize their memory traits. c) emphasize their analytic verbal skills.

5. Females are usually better at:

a) mathematics. b) linguistic abilities. c) spatial tasks.

6. The perceptual approach: a) It is the style used in different environments. b) It is related to the way individuals prefer to perceive the input to be

learnt. c) if individuals stop to think about and plan before carrying out a task or if

they do not. 7. What are the strategies?

a) are specific actions, behaviours, steps, or techniques students use to improve their progress in apprehending, internalizing, and using the foreign language.

b) are a mode of thinking and behaving, it is the way individuals approach and handle the task of learning.

c) are concerned with students’ practical reasons for learning the foreign language.

8. What strategy helps learners to overcome gaps to keep the communication

going? a) Compensation strategies. b) Affective Strategies. c) Memory.

9. Metacognitive Strategies:

a) are concerned with learner's emotional requirements. b) used for the very storage of information. c) help learners to regulate their learning process.

10. The three states of motivation are:

a) Dynamic, cyclical and process. b) Dynamic, cyclical and oriented. c) Dynamic, cyclical and process-oriented.

11. Which author is related to motivation?

a) Gardner. b) Pavlov. c) Skinner.

12. The motivation can be..:

a) Extrinsic. b) Intrinsic. c) Extrinsic and Intrinsic.

13. Who affirmed that anxiety is "the subjective feeling of tension, apprehension,

nervousness, and worry associated with an arousal of the autonomic nervous system"?

a) Horwitz. b) Brown. c) Bandura.

14. Does teachers´ manner and discourse affect in children´s self-esteem?

a) No, teachers´ manner and discourse don´t contributes to favour or undermine children's self-esteem.

b) Yes, teachers´ manner and discourse contributes to favour or undermine children's self-esteem.

c) Yes, but only partially.

15. Extrovert people tend to be: a) more sociable than introvert people. b) less sociable than introvert people. c) as sociable as introvert people.

16. The ability of putting oneself in the place of another person is:

a) Inhibition. b) Empathy. c) Extroversion.

17. Extent to which individuals build defenses to protect their ego:

a) Inhibition. b) Risk – taking. c) Empathy.

18. Visual/spatial intelligence:

a) Learner is able of understand the feelings of another person. b) Very sensitive about music. c) Intelligence related to art and space. The learner is good with draw or

reading maps. 19. The good language learner is:

a) Not afraid of making guesses about unknown words. b) Often inhibited. c) Monitor his own speech.

20. Who states seven facts about good language learner?

a) Piaget. b) Gardner. c) Rubin.

QUESTIONS FOR TOPIC 3

1. According to old tradition, students must know the: a) morphology of words and the syntactic rules in order to combine them and

construct accurate sentences to carry out a further oral activity on their own. b) morphology of words in order to combine them and construct accurate

sentences to carry out a further written activity on their own. c) the syntactic rules in order to combine them and construct accurate sentences

to carry out a further oral activity on their own. 2. In graded readers, five hundred or one thousand words are enough to complete real collections of these easy-to-read books (……. 1927).

a) West. b) Terrell. c) Palmer.

3. In FL acquisition,.....

a) Lots of activities that can develop for learning competence. b) Lots of activities that can develop both listening and speaking competence. c) Very few activities that can develop both listening and speaking competence.

4. The silent period is recommended for:

a. beginners b. experts c. both

5. When performing roles and developing skills children:

a) reproduce audio CLT techniques. b) perform dialogues and role-plays according to the skill level achieved. c) indirect symbol dictation.

6. When using gestures, drawings and body language:

a. background noise must be encouraged. b. Sound references may not be supported by images. c. Background disturbing noise must be avoided.

7. A principal about the use of the L1 is: d) the first language can be used as a helping hand to maintain motivation. e) the first language can´t be used as a helping hand to maintain motivation. f) the first language can´t provide context.

8. The expressive function is part of the…

d) listening. e) reading. f) oral communication.

9. In the oral communication the use of questions is:

d) useless. e) interesting. f) important.

10. What are Total Physical Response or TPR techniques?

a) They are the most efficient tasks to make learners participate and get involved from the first day of class

b) They are an enjoyable experience which aids relaxation and group dynamics and increases attentiveness and receptiveness in the language classroom.

c) They are recommended for beginners, together with a great deal of listening activities.

11. Why is listening important?

a) Sounds or acoustic references may encourage comprehension b) It allows pupils to distinguish sounds, stress, and intonation patterns c) It isn’t needed in real life

12. Stand up, walk, stop, run, jump, come here, look, listen, are example for:

a) My schoolbag b) Everyday life c) Water and nature

13. Which one allows the regarding of the stories?

a) The combination of commands and questions b) Commands c) Questions

14. Should it be related to the questions and answers?

a) Yes b) No c) it is not necessary

15. A characteristic of teaching oral English through songs is:

a) They bring monotony to the lesson. b) They are part of everyday life and is a natural opportunity for meaningful repetition. c) They don't contribute to the improvement of pronunciation.

16. Gardner's Multiple Intelligence theory is consistent with the use of .............as

a vehicle for L2 learning. a) Music. b) Words. c) Movement.

17. Who found that the combination of music and illustrations has a decidedly beneficial effect on vocabulary acquisition.

a) Gardner. b) Medina. c) Pavlov.

18. The difficulty of English pronunciation is that:

a) its phonological system resemble the students’ native one. b) lack of correspondence between pronunciation and the written code. c) The way of writing of the teacher in the blackboard.

19. Combination of both explicit and implicit instructional methods is…

a) Eclectic approach. b) Collective approach. c) Individual approach.

20. Is responsible for the generation of familiar words, which are retrieved or addressed from the memory store as single units:

a) The phonological or assembling module or route. b) The visual-orthographic or assembling strategy or procedure. c) Spelling instruction through awareness-raising

QUESTIONS FOR UNIT 4

1. What is Reading?

a) It is a written receptive skill which activates a chain of cognitive processes in making sense of the text.

b) It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexical and names that are drawn from very large vocabularies.

c) is a communication technique that requires the listener to feed back what he hears to the speaker, to confirm what he has heard and moreover, to confirm the understanding of both parties.

2. What are reasons for reading?

a) To read short stories, letters and travel brochures. b) To satisfy to curiosity about a topic, for pleasure and enjoyment and to keep in

touch. c) To find out when and where, public signs, weather forecasts.

3. For text selection, the Primary teacher should bear in mind the following principles:

a) Texts should decrease motivation and promote self-esteem. b) Texts should be adapted to the learner’s cognitive development. c) The text should be centered on one subject so that students are not distracted.

4. Which are characteristics of Written language?

a) Vocabulary and distance. b) Permanence and reading. c) Vocabulary and syntactic.

5. The letters allow us to form.....

a) Sentences. b) Words. c) Texts.

6. Do Rhymes, chats and song encourage the student´s ability?

a) yes, always. b) no, never. c) Sometimes.

7. Which is the approach that shifts from bottom-up to top-down and viceversa?

a) Top-down process. b) Intensive process. c) Interactive process.

8. When is specially used the method of reading aloud to check pronunciation?

a) In intermediate and basic levels. b) Only in basic levels. c) In advanced level.

9. According to the Common European Framework of reference for languages, in which level are students able to understand contemporary literary prose?

a) C2. b) B2. c) A2.

10. Which style of reading is used to get a global impression of the content of a text?

a) Skimming.

b) Scanning.

c) Intensive reading.

11. Which style of reading studies texts in depth?

a) Skmming.

b) Extensive reading.

c) Intensive reading.

12. Reading for pleasure is a principle for:

a) Extensive reading.

b) Silent reading.

c) Intensive reading.

13. According to Celce-Murcia…

a) there are at least two important goals that should be considered in any extensive reading programme.

b) there are at least six important goals that should be considered in any extensive reading programme.

c) there are at least five important themes that should be considered in any extensive reading programme.

14. Simenson classifies texts for extensive reading into three categories:

a) Authentic, Pedagogic and Adapted. b) Authentic, Pedagogic and Simultaneous. c) Psychological, Pedagogic and Adapted.

15. Authentic texts…

a) aren´t specifically written for language learning. b) are specifically written for language learning. c) have very few activities that can develop both listening and speaking

competence. 16. Grabe and Stoller highlight ______ main goals of pre-reading instruction:

a) Three.

b) Five.

c) Four.

17. A pre-reading task is:

a) Identifying the topic of the text.

b) Exploring the text form.

c) Identifying the author of the text.

18. Who propose tasks to develop reading skills?

a) Madrid and McLaren.

b) Grabe and Stoller.

c) Celce-Murcia.

19. Following the spelling, understanding the punctuation, reading in word-groups... are process that we use in...

a) Pre-reading tasks. b) Tasks during reading. c) Post-reading tasks.

20. Intertextuality is a process that we use in…

a) Pre-reading tasks. b) Tasks during reading. c) Post-reading tasks.

QUESTIONS FOR UNIT 5

1. The writing skill is:

a) Active and visual

b) Acive and oral

c) Pasive and visual

2. Which sub- skill includes spelling, punctuation and layout?

a) Organisational

b) Expresive or stylistic

c) Graphic or visual

3. In which sub-skill do we use connectors and modifiers?

a) Rethorical

b) Grammar

c) Graphic

4. Which order does the Audiolingual method establish?

a) Speaking, reading, writing and listening

b) listening, speaking, reading and writing

c) writing, reading, speaking and listening.

5. What does inner speech mean?

a) When we are speaking we don´t think about the words that we are going to

use.

b) When we are speaking we usually pronounce it internally before saying it.

c) When we are writing we usually “try it out” by pronouncing it internally.

6. Which activities do integrate listening and writing skills?

a) Dictations or listening comprehensions

b) Fill in the gaps

c) Crosswords

7. Who think that the themes proposed on writing tasks are often repetitive,

unimaginative and unattractive?

a) Teachers

b) Children

c) Both of them

8. What do we have to take into account when doing a writing task?

a) The content, the form and the activities.

b) The content, the purpose, and the final result

c) The content, the reader and the purpose.

9. In which of these text types we can find letters of complaint or request?

a) Professional writing

b) Public writing

c) Social writing

10. How should it be the purpose of writing for the pupils?

a) It should be meaningful and related to their interests

b) It should be only fun for them

c) It should be connected to the objectives of the course, not with the pupils´

interest

11. The controlled-to-free approach places the emphasis on:

a) Quantity rather than quality

b) Organization

c) Accuracy

12. In which approach are students encouraged to write freely on any topic without

worrying about grammar?

a) The controlled-to-free approach

b) The Communicative approach

c) The free-writing approach

13. In which approach do teachers mix the most useful techniques from each

approach?

a) The paragraph-pattern approach

b) The grammar-syntax-organisation approach

c) The Eclectic Approach

14. In which approach do the students copy, analyse and imitate model paragraphs

and passages, learning how sentences are linked together to form a paragraph?

a) The paragraph-pattern approach

b) The process approach to writing

c) The Communicative Approach

15. Why is writing important in the teaching-learning process of languages?

a) Because it helps the students to improve their handwriting.

b) Because it helps to consolidate and reinforce the learning of other knowledge

(grammar, vocabulary, etc.).

c) Because it favours the relationship between the teacher and the students.

16. Which stages were established by Pincas in 1982?

a) Organization, controlled writing, guided writing and free writing.

b) Familiarisation, controlled writing, guided writing and free writing.

c) Organization, familiarization, guided writing and free writing.

17. Activities such as jumbled sentences to form coherent paragraphs belong to:

a) Controlled writing

b) Guided writing

c) Free writing

18. Un example of guided written activity could be:

a) Punctuating a text

b) Describe their room

c) Write about your friends and family giving them an example.

19. How can the teacher support children?

a) Interacting with their children on literacy practices and events

b) Giving them extra material

c) Don´t act as literary models

20. When the teacher corrects the students he should:

a) Punish them if they make many mistakes

b) Focus on their errors.

c) Write encouraging and personal comments.

QUESTIONS FOR UNIT 6

1. Evaluation implies gathering data on the...

a. speaking and writing of the English language.

b. listening and writing of the English language.

c. teaching and learning of the English language.

2. It implies the systematic gathering of information for purposes of decision-

making:

a. Evaluation

b. Assessment

c. Comprehension

3. Evaluation includes:

a. Assessing curricular effectiveness or efficiency

b. Evaluating only the student´s work

c. Examining the school context with experimental methodologies

4. Which is the first stage of product-oriented approaches according to Hammond?

a. Identification of what is to be evaluated.

b. Definition of the variables to be evaluated.

c. Formulation of teaching objectives in operative and observable terms.

5. External evaluation is carried out by...

a. internal assessors

b. external assessors

c. the people involved in it.

6. Which is a type of evaluation?

a. Summative

b. Conclusive

c. Restative

7. Initial evaluation...

a. includes contents covered in previous courses and is applied at the outset of

the school year with a diagnostic purpose

b. testing is carried out at the end of a specific period of instruction

c. is implemented to assess the level of attainment at the end of the school year.

8. Which of these types of evaluation doesn´t exist?

a. Initial Evaluation

b. Middle Evaluation

c. Final Evaluation

9. If we resort to a quantification of the phenomena we are attempting to assess,

we will be making use of a...

a. qualificate type of evaluation.

b. quantitative type of evaluation.

c. qualitative type of evaluation.

10. Profiling is an example of...

a. quantitative evaluation.

b. quantificate evaluation.

c. qualitative evaluation.

11. Language proficiency is a term that refers to ...

a. our competence or ability to use a language for a specific purpose.

b. our competence or ability to use a language without a specific purpose.

c. our competence or ability to use a language for a general purpose.

12. Tests are normally used to measure:

a. general capacities, abilities, or skills.

b. certain capacities, abilities, or skills.

c. all capacities, abilities, or skills.

13. Which of these types of tests doesn´t exist?

a. Aptitude tests.

b. Diagnostic and placement tests

c. Instruction tests.

14. It is the extent to which a test measures what it is intended to measure:

a. Authenticity.

b. Validity.

c. Reliability

15. Evaluation of procedures and skills basically involves the evaluation of strategic

competence and of the...

a. four skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing).

b. three skills (listening, speaking, reading).

c. three skills (speaking, reading, writing).

16. Evaluation of attitudes doesn´t include...

a. Values

b. Learning

c. Motivations

17. Which isn´t an advantage of self-evaluation?

a. Students may become more aware of the FL syllabus, they may pay more

attention to the learning activities and may carry them out with more

enthusiasm, at least at the first stage of self-evaluation.

b. The learners are given opportunities to reflect on their learning process:

attitudes, interest, participation, effort and other aspects of their behaviour in

the EFL classroom.

c. The self-evaluation of learning tasks don´t help students to understand their

achievement better and accept the grades they are given by the teacher.

18. For evaluating the speaking skill, there are two general qualities that determine

the success of the learner. These are:

a. fluency and propositional precision.

b. fluency and communicative ability.

c. propositional precision and communicative ability.

19. According to the Rating scale for the speaking skill, the C Grade is...

a. Acceptable

b. Good

c. Insufficient

20. This is a measure of the central tendency of distribution:

a. Mode

b. Median

c. Range