全国2004年10月高等教育自学考试外语教学法试题
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Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (15%)
Directions: In this section, you are given 15 questions beneath each of which are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You are to make the best choice either to complete the incomplete statement or to answer the question. One point is given to each correct choice.

1. The Communicative Approach is essentially a manifestation of the        .
A.1950’s     
B.1960’s    
C.1970’s   
D.1980’s

2. Georgi Lozano was the founder of           .
A. The Silent Way         
B. Suggestopaedia
C. The Total Physical Response     
D. Community Language Learning

3. The functional linguistics develops directly from            .
A. the transformational generative grammar
B. the habit-formation theory
C. the American School of Linguistics
D. the London School of Linguistics

4. Traditional linguists believe that the written form of language is          to the spoken form.
A. senior     
B. junior    
C. inferior  
D. superior

5. Who applied the theory of conditioning to the way humans acquire language in a book entitled
“Verbal Behavior”?
A. Skinner    
B. Bruner    
C. Bloomfield  
D. Piaget

6. Language meaning depends to a large extent on the      contexts in which speech acts occurred. 
A. linguistic     
B. grammatical   
C. cultural  
D. sociocultural

7. The Oral Approach believes in a theory of learning that is based on a type of     theory.
A. behaviourist    
B. cognitive    
C. discovery   
D. hypothesis-testing

8. As an inter-disciplinary science, FLTM makes use of                 of different subjects.
A. theories     
B. rules     
C. methods   
D. languages

9. In Palmer and Hornby’s view, the organization of the grammatical content of a language course
should be based on the principle of                  .
A. cognition     
B. automaticity   
C. deduction  
D. gradation

10. Which of the following became a key feature of the Oral Approach in the 1960’s?
A. Priority of spoken language.     
B. Classroom instruction in the target language.
C. Situational presentation and practice.
D. Vocabulary selection.

11. Materials in the Audiolingual Method are primarily          .
A. teacher-oriented      
B. learner-oriented
C. text-oriented      
D. activity-oriented

12. The Silent Way takes          to the organization of language to be taught.
A. a discovery method      
B. a cognitive approach
C. direct and indirect method    
D. a structural approach

13. The most obvious characteristic of the Communicative Approach is that almost everything is done with a communicative           .
A. situation   
B. setting   
C. information  
D. intent

14. All of the following principles reflect the influence of structural linguistics and behaviourist psychology in language teaching except that        .
A. language is speech, not writing   
B. a language is what its native speakers say, not what someone thinks they ought to say
C. languages are different
D. competence comes before performance

15. What are the five factors which are considered crucial components in foreign language teaching in the ASSRF Method?
A. Attention, security, structure, retention and function.
B. Approach, situation, skill, reading and formation.
C. Affective factors, situation, structure, rule and function.
D. Attention, summarizing, situation, reflection and form.

Ⅱ. Filling Blanks: (20%)
Directions: In this section there are 15 statements with 20 blanks. You are to fill each blank with ONE appropriate word. One point is given to each blank.

16. Generally speaking, the Grammar-Translation Method belongs to the school of   linguistics.

17. According to the advocates of the Direct Method, the verbal expression of an event is  
a word, but a            .
18. The cognitive theory of learning as put forward by Ausubel is perhaps best understood by contrasting           learning and
meaningful learning.

19. Towards the end of the 19th century, the language teaching innovation turned into the
        Movement.

20. Chomsky made a difference between the grammatical knowledge and the sentences it produced. He called the knowledge of grammar rules “                ”.

21. The book The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom states the
      and        of the Natural Approach.

22. In the view of Grammar-Translation Method, the first language is maintained as the         
in the acquisition of the target language.

23. Grammar is learned          by listening and speaking activities in the Direct Method, that is, by encouraging learners to induce rules by active use of language.

24. The process of learning by discovery involves             (taking particular instances and using them to devise a general case ) with the minimum of instruction, and errorful   
    .
25. According to the psychological principles of the German scholar F. Franke, a direct association between forms and            in the target language should be established.

26. In Grammar-Translation Method, grammar is the main              in foreign language classrooms.

27. Piaget saw cognitive development as essentially a process of          , within which genetics and experience interact.

28. In the opinion of Krashen and Terrell,            is the primary function of language.

29. In the acquisition-learning hypothesis, it is said that speakers are concerned with not the
     but the                  of language.
30. The theory of learning underlying the Grammar-Translation Method was      Psychology.

Ⅲ. Matching: (15%)
Directions: This section consists of three groups of pairs listed in two columns, A and B. You are to match the one marked ①, ②, ③, ④, or ⑤ in Column A with the one marked a, b, c, d, or e in Column B. One point is given to each correct pair you match.
31.
A: techniques used in     B: the purpose
Grammar-Translation Method:      
① reading    a. to present new items or to understand the passage ② analysis and comparison    b. to apply the new items
③ translation    c. to check the understanding of the reading passage④ reading comprehension questions  d. to introduce new words and grammar rules
⑤ written work     e. to apply the grammar rules to examples and to
      understand the reading passage
32.
A: procedures/techniques used     B: the purpose
in the Oral Approach:
① individual imitation    a. to encourage the students to listen to each other
carefully
② building up a new model    b. to check the pronunciation
③ listening practice    c. to familiarize the students with the pronunciation
and the pattern
④ choral imitation    d. to introduce the new model
⑤ correction by the students themselves e. to obtain students’ attention
33.
A: techniques used in the Cognitive   B: the purpose
  Approach:
① the ASSRF method    a. Wang Cairen
② dual activity method    b. Zhang Sizhong来源:91考试网
③ global method    c. Zhang Jianzhong
④ leveled method    d. Liu Zhaoyi
⑤ Zhang Sizhong method    e. Hao Youming

Ⅳ. Questions for Brief Answers: (30%)
Directions: This section has six questions. You are to briefly answer them. Five points are given to each question.
34. What are the roles of the teacher in the Communicative Approach?
35. According to the cognitive theory, what are two processes that second language acquisition involves?
36. What are the disadvantages of the Natural Approach?
37. What language skills are emphasized by the Direct Method? Why?
38. Why was speech given a priority in audiolingual classroom practice?
39. What sort of linguistics is the Grammar-Translation Method based on?

Ⅴ. Questions for Long Answers: (20%)
Directions: The two questions in this section are to be answered on the basis of your own teaching experience as well as the theoretical knowledge you’ve learned. Ten points are given to each question.
40. What theories of language are used by the Communicative Approach as its theoretical basis?
41. Do you think the Direct Method can be used in the second language classrooms today? Why or why not?