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TEST Questions:-

You have undertaken the Certificate course. Now consider these questions.

1. What is the most important duty of a TESOL teacher
a. teach students the theory of language learning
b. give the students' confidence
c. provide lots of homework

2.Theories in TESOL :-
a. are well established
b. were developed in the 1980s with Stephen Krashen
c. change regularly as research provides new data

3. Which of he following should the TESOL teacher achieve?
a. provide strong motivation for the student
b. provide good lesson plans
c. teach good pronunciation

4. What does TESOL stand for?
a. Teach English Safely to Other Languages
b. Teachers of English Speak to Other La gauges
c. Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages

5. TESOL, TESL, TEFL, ESL, EFL, TEYL, are
a. a group of acronyms describing English language teaching
b. specific acronyms describing different methodologies
c. specific to different countries and methods of teaching

6. MRI are brain scans - recent brain scans show:-
a) exactly how we learn a language
b) different parts of the brain are used in language learning
c) children learn a language quicker than adults

7. Culture and a second /foreign language
a. need not be considered in teaching
b. the teacher's home culture must be taught
c. the teacher needs to teach both cultures

8. The first time the teacher meets the new student, the teacher should:-
a) assess the student’s English level
b) ask about his family
c) introduce the teacher (self) and put the student at ease

9. In the first lesson with a new student, the teacher should:
a) explain the goals that the students is expected to reach over the coming month(s)
b) identify carefully the strong and weak points of the learners second language ability
c) give the student a list of 2,000 words to learn

10. Teachers should:-
a) always correct the students errors every time the student makes any mistake
b) correct significant mistakes only
c) ignore errors and promote students fluency
d) consider each student on a case by case example, then act accordingly

11. When you hear what you consider bad English pronunciation, you should:-
a) tell the student his pronunciation is bad
b) let it pass without comment
c) discuss the pronunciation point with the student and give positive reinforcement

12. If the student is having trouble understanding your speaking, you should:-
a) try speaking at a slower pace and see if that helps
b) make no change and the student must listen and learn the hard way
c) refer the student to another teacher

13. As a teacher, games are considered a useful adjunct to teaching. You should play an English game:-
a) every lesson
b) once a week
c) only as the opportunity arises

14. If the student seems to be unmotivated from day one, you should
a) teach the materials and make the student learn
b) play more fun games
c) try to understand the students’ psychology for learning English, then attempt to address his low level of motivation and attempt to raise his level of motivation

15. Your classroom may be very small. If so, what would you put on the walls?
a) posters of foreign countries, sights, etc
b) nothing
c) English words
d) change the scheme from (a-) weekly

16. The student says your English is not good. What do you do?
a) accept his criticism
b) say nothing
c) inform the student you are the professional and he is the student, and his English will improve in time if he follows your teaching

17. The student asks a question you do not know the answer to? What do you say?
a) nothing – ignore the question
b) say you don’t know but will find out
c) give any answer that sounds plausible and good

Task Based Teaching.

18. Task based teaching is (……………..) effective style(s) for teaching students English
a) one of the
b) the only
c) not considered an

19. The most important issue in Task based teaching is that there must be an:-
a) An anticipated outcome
b) a perfectly meaningful task
c) a pre-task the same as the post task

20. A task can focus on:-
a) a pronunciation exercise
b) grammar exercises
c) vocabulary
d) all of the above

21. Task based teaching requires the teacher to elaborate the task in the pre-task phase?
a) yes
b) no
c) doesn't’t matter

22. The Task Phase of task based teaching requires students to work on a task set by the teacher and:-
a) report back to the class/teacher on that task
b) solve a language issue
c) identify grammar points
d) any of the above depending on the task set

23. Tasks can only be done in group work?
a) yes
b) no, a task can be done in a group or solo
c) with a minimum of 4 students

24. A Task based teaching lesson can concentrate on:-
a) a social issue such as a secondary discussion point
b) differences in US-British grammars
c) differences in US-British spellings
d) All of the above

25. Task based teaching is designed to:-
a) present an area of language learning to the student in the post-task
b) be a fun way to teach
c) be an alterative to the grammar translation model

26. The first phase is 'pre-task' and concerns:-
a) the various activities that teachers and students can undertake
b) centres around the task itself and affords various instructional options
c) involves procedures for following-up on the task performance

27. The teacher can review learner errors:-
a) in the post task phase
b) or can write the errors up on the black board and address them
c) or can have the students try to correct them themselves first
d) all of the above

28. How do you determine what materials are best to teach with?
a) what the school supplies but seems too high a level
b) what materials the student likes to study
c) newspaper articles

29. Which of the following materials would you select for a student who is 24 years old from Korea?
a) a grammar book
b) a book about the United Kingdom
c) a story about life in Korea

30. Authentic materials are arguably the best to teach from. Which of the following not authentic (your student is a 15 year old from Korea)
a) a story about sports in Korea
b) U.S.A. presidential election
c) pictures from Korean shopping centres

31. Which of the following pictures would you use (your student is 15, male, and from Korea.) He has low level communication skills -

A) Haeundae beach, Pusan Korea

b) Obama and Biden (U.S. election)

c) A car catches fire in the U.K.

Mistakes in speech.

32. Your student (12 year old girl from Korea) keeps omitting the article "a" from his speech. "My father is a doctor." "My mother is housewife." What would you do - this is a man to man class - and you see the student once a day for two months.
a) do nothing and expect him to naturally acquire the proper order of words as he grows older
b) keep interrupting him and repeat the sentences with the article "a" included
c) use your blackboard - and give him a mini session on the correct use of articles

33. Your student is 25 years old. She is from Japan. Her grammar is bad in spoken english. She continually gets the present and past tense wrong. She says for example:- "I go shopping yesterday." "Tomorrow I will went to the beach." What would you do?
a) do nothing and expect her to naturally acquire the proper order of words as she grows older
b) keep interrupting her and repeat the sentences with the correct form of grammar.
c) use your blackboard - and give her an intensive session on the correct use of tenses

34. Your student is 25 years old. She is from Japan. She can not pronounce the letters "L" and "R."
What would you do?
a) do nothing and expect her to naturally acquire them
b) keep interrupting her and repeat the sentences with the correct pronunciation.
c) use your blackboard - and give her an intensive session on the correct use of L and R and have her practice many L and R sounds.

Vocabulary.

35. Your student is 17 years old. You are just meeting her for the first time. She is from China. She has studied English since elementary school. How many active words do you expect to have learnt?
a) 600
b) 1,000
c) 1,700
d) 2,500

36. Incidental Learning is where students notice English language words on signs outside, shop fronts,etc. It is an essential way to help your student learn. Which of the following piece of advice would you give the student.
a) Try to read English words in the street.
b) Look for a s many english words as you can find.
c) Find words, and think of more words that are connected to that word, then tell me in class tomorrow what words you read, and what words you also thought of.

37. Reading is an excellent way to learn English and improve your english speaking skills. Reading is like silent speaking. Which book below would you recommend for a 9 year old boy from Japan.
a) Sports story from daily paper
b) a graded reader (elementary level) 600 head words
c) Harry Potter

38. Which book below would you recommend for a 24 year old girl from Japan.
a) Sports story from daily paper
b) a Grammar book
c) Job interview skills in English

39. Which book below would you recommend for a 18 year old girl from Korea.
a) a graded reader, 1,500 words, upper intermediate level
b) Harry Potter
c) Fashion magazine from New York.

40)Your student (a 25 year old University student) answers about her family in the following way when asked to describe her family.

"There 5 people in family. My father is teacher, my mother is ...... um.. ah.... houselady, my brother is middle school student, bigger sister is went to Seoul. I like to playing computer game."

Which if the following do you agree with?
a) The student should be complemented on her answer
b) The student should be told to learn grammar more
c) The student needs positive encouragement to do better, guidance in article usage, vocabulary guidance, and more spoken practice on this question.

41) You hear your students talking in their mother tongue outside the classroom. What would you do?
a) nothing - let them have a rest from English
b) smile and encourage them to speak more English
c) look angry - and say "English Only."

42) Suter & Purcell (1980, 286) concluded that pronunciation practice in class had little effect on the learner's pronunciation skills and moreover, 'that the attainment of accurate pronunciation in a second language is a matter substantially beyond the control of the educators,'
http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/june2003subpr.php

Which of these do you think is correct?
a) If the student is over 14 years old do nothing to help the student's pronunciation
b) Coach the student in what you believe is understandable pronunciation
c) Tell the student to live in the USA for a year to gain good pronunciation

43) Parents may play an active role by monitoring their children’s curricular activities. They may also play a more indirect role by modelling attitudes conducive to successful language learning. A number of studies have found a positive relationship between parental encouragement and achievement in L2 classroom learning.
http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/Dec_2007_re.php

Which of the following would you suggest to your young students parent(s)?
a) talk in English to the child from time to time
b) read English books with the child as often as possible
c) give encouragement and positive words about the child's english
d) all of the above