Variant 1

1. What are the primary objectives according to the grammar-translation method?

A. knowledge of foreign morphemes
B. insistence on grammatical analysis.
C. mastery of speaking and listening
D. mastery of reading and writing
E. knowledge of vocabulary

2. In the grammar-translation method what was grammar identified with?

A. skills
B. logic.
C. translation
D. means of communication
E. competence

3. What is the main purpose of teaching a foreign language according to the direct
method?
A. practical mastery of the language.
B. knowledge of foreign morphemes
C. insistence on grammatical analysis
D. the use of translation
E. knowledge of vocabulary

4. Which of the features given does not characterize the direct method?

A. developing speaking skills
B. restricted application of translation
C. great care in teaching pronunciation
D. topical arrangement of linguistic material
E. the deductive approach to teaching grammar.

5. Who does the following quotation belong to: ‘Learning a language has a beginning, but
no end’?
A. West
B. Fries
C. Palmer.
D. Sweet
E. Walter

6. In teaching a foreign language what does West propose to begin with?

A. Reading.
B. phonetics
C. writing
D. speaking
E. listening

7. According to West, which aspect of a language is the easiest one?

A. phonetics
B. writing
C. speaking
D. reading.
E. listening

8. Which way of presenting new grammar material is used in the direct method?
A. whole-language
B. explicit
C. deductive
D. holistic
E. inductive.

9. Which system is considered a secondary derivative one according to the audio-lingual

method?
A. speaking
B. writing.
C. phonetics
D. grammar
E. listening

10. What teaching aid is supposed to be the main one according to the audio-lingual
method?
A. textbook
B. objects
C. tape-recorded speech.
D. teacher’s gestures
E. dictionary

11. Which theory states that learning is a mechanical process of habit formation and
proceeds by means of the frequent reinforcement of a stimulus-response sequence.
A. cognitivism
B. conservatism
C. behaviorism
D. habitualism
E. internationalism

12. What process should be rule-governed according to Chomsky?

A. Thinking.
B. listening
C. writing
D. speaking
E. habit-formation

13. Which theory states that we learn by thinking about and trying to make sense of what
we see, feel, and hear.
A. behaviorism
B. mentalism
C. conservatism
D. habitualism
E. cognitivism.
14. The use of activities, in which learners work on the same task, but each learner has
different information needed to complete the task is a feature of:
A. comprehensive language teaching
B. cognitive code theory
C. audio-lingual language teaching
D. communicative language teaching.
E. silent way

15. Repetitive drill is a characteristic feature of:

A. the behaviorist theory.
B. the mentalist theory
C. the cognitive-code theory
D. the Universal hypothesis theory
E. the holistic theory

16. What is not implied under cognitive processes?

A. recognition of form
B. repetitive drill.
C. perception of meaning
D. relations of universals and particulars
E. generalization

17. Who makes decisions on the size of groups, the roles the students will be assigned, the
materials needed in formal cooperative learning?
A. Students
B. Teacher.
C. parents
D. school principal
E. school board

18. Students work together to achieve shared learning goals and to complete jointly specific
tasks and assignments in:
A. skills-centered learning
B. learning-centered learning
C. cooperative learning.
D. Soviet methodology learning
E. cognitive-code learning

19. Long-term, heterogeneous cooperative learning groups with stable membership are:
A. cooperative social groups
B. cooperative time groups
C. cooperative unit groups
D. cooperative project groups
E. cooperative base groups.

20. Cooperative learning is a good solution of problems that arise in:

A. heterogeneous classes.
B. homogeneous classes
C. pre-elementary classes
D. post-graduate classes
E. experimental classes

21. Which one of the listed below does not belong to cooperative learning ideas?
A. Your success benefits me and my success benefits you.
B. We all sink or swim together
C. We cannot do it without you
D. Our teacher must be proud of us.
E. We all congratulate you on your accomplishment

22. What precedes learning according to learning-centered methodology?

A. practical mastery
B. comprehension.
C. theoretical background
D. philosophical views
E. visualization

23. Who makes decisions during the process of developing and using a network of
knowledge according to learning-centered methodology?
A. parents
B. teacher
C. school principal
D. school board
E. learners.

24. According to learning-centered methodology the teachers do not develop positive

emotions by:
A. using pair and group work
B. valuing attitude, aptitude, and ability
C. giving sufficient home task.
D. giving students time to think
E. putting less emphasis on the product

25. According to learning-centered methodology who creates an internal system of L2?

A. Learner.
B. teacher
C. peer group
D. program advisor
E. class mate