VU Midterm Past Papers
56 solved midterm past paper MCQs for ENG513 (Language Teaching Methods) at Virtual University, each with the correct answer marked. Use them to learn the VU question style and test your recall. An independent study tool — not affiliated with VU.
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Q1. It is an approach to teaching that makes maximum use of cooperative activities involving pairs and small groups of learners in the classroom.
Q2. The objective of Suggestopedia is to deliver conversational proficiency.
Q3. Bancroft notes that the second part of a Suggestopedia class is typically conducted in the language.
Q4. How many presuppositions were presented by Revell and Norman (1997) that guide the application of NLP in language learning and other fields?
Q5. Which of the following methods was created by educators concerned with the teaching of language arts in the native language?
Q6. Which of the following groups of pedagogists treated language as a discourse?
Q7. Natural Approach teacher has central roles.
Q8. Which of the following stage is concerned with Transfer of the Intelligence in MI model?
Q9. Who pointed out that the traditional approach to developing a syllabus involves using one's understanding of subject matter as the basis for syllabus planning?
Q10. A widely accepted view of intelligence is that intelligence comprises a single factor, usually called the factor.
Q11. In which of the following method language is held to be integrated with music, bodily activity and interpersonal relationships?
Q12. The most conspicuous characteristics of Suggestopedia are the decoration, furniture, and arrangement of the classroom, the use of music, and the behavior of the teacher.
Q13. Which of the following is true for Neurolinguistic Programming?
Q14. Which of the following linguists adopted a ‘lexicon-is-prime’ position in his Minimalist Linguistic theory?
Q15. Which of the following is the most demanding aspect for teachers of the Silent Way?
Q16. In the Silent Way method, the teacher focuses on the propositional meaning, rather than the value.
Q17. Which of the following language teaching methods is an educational movement and focuses on the outcomes or outputs of learning in the development of language programs?
Q18. The learner is expected to develop which of the following in a Silent Way classroom?
Q19. Which of the following approaches requires teachers to abandon the idea of the teacher as ‘knower’ and concentrate instead on the idea of the ‘learner’ as discoverer?
Q20. Whole Language theory views language organization from a/an perspective.
Q21. Multiple Intelligences method is a method.
Q22. According to Krashen and Terrell, which of the following does not require explicit analysis or attention by the language teacher, language learner, or teaching materials?
Q23. Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) refers to a training philosophy and set of training techniques first developed as an alternative form of ;
Q24. In Silent Way method, students learn grammar rules of language through the processes.
Q25. Classroom procedures typically involve the use of activities that draw students’ attention to lexical collocations and seek to enhance their and use of collocations.
Q26. The Natural Method is another term for what by 1900 had become known as the :
Q27. Two English translations of the same short story is an example of .
Q28. Which of the following objective is NOT defined in Community Language Learning method?
Q29. Which of the following characteristics regarding intelligence differentiates Multiple Intelligence Model from traditional IQ testing model?
Q30. Which of the following is a direct support material in a Suggestopedic classroom?
Q31. In a Community Language Learning method, at what stage does the interactions between learner and knower are characterized as resentful and indignant?
Q32. Community Language Learning Method is based on a approach.
Q33. If Neurolinguistic Programming is not a language teaching method, what is it?
Q34. According to Moskowitz, humanistic techniques are those that blend what the student feels, thinks and knows with what he is learning in the
Q35. The Whole Language instruction focuses on the use of authentic literature designed to practice individual skills.
Q36. Which of the following materials can be used in a Cooperative Language Learning classroom?
Q37. Central to an approach or a method in language teaching is a view of the nature of language, and this shapes goal.
Q38. Which of the following language teaching methods was devised by Caleb Gattegno?
Q39. In Neurolinguistic Programming, which of the following is concerned with the way language we use shapes, as well as reflects, our experience of the world?
Q40. Who argued that complex bits of language are learned as a whole chunk at a time rather than learned as an assemblage of constituent items?
Q41. Advocates of which of the following methods draw heavily on the theoretical work of developmental psychologists i.e. Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky?
Q42. In Silent way, learning is facilitated by involving the material to be learned.
Q43. Campbell notes that Multiple Intelligences theory gives teachers a complex model from which to construct curriculum and improve themselves as educators.
Q44. Willis notes that the COBUILD computer analyses of texts indicate that the most frequent words of English account for around 70% of all English text.
Q45. In the Whole Language Learning method, students act as both collaborators and
Q46. "To provide opportunities for naturalistic second language acquisition through the use of interactive pair and group" is the goal of which of the following teaching methods?
Q47. Which of the following early methods viewed grammar as the central component of language?
Q48. Which of the following is NOT considered a necessary component in a Community Language Learning classroom?
Q49. Which of the following factors suggests 'language learning is broken down into manageable and immediately meaningful chunks'?
Q50. Which of the following is a communicative function proposed by Wilkins (1972)?
Q51. Which of the following groups can be defined as 'ad-hoc groups that last from a few minutes to a class period and are used to focus student attention during direct teaching'?
Q52. Competency-Based Language Teaching method shares most of its features with which of the following method?
Q53. The Natural Approach is primarily designed to develop communication skills - both oral and written.
Q54. Suggestopedia is a specific set of learning recommendations derived from .
Q55. Which of the following is a semanticogrammatical notion proposed by Wilkins (1972)?
Q56. Dividing activities up into sets of competencies is a approach.