Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.
In “She drives ________” and in “She has a ________ car”, you can fill in the blanks with the word fast because both the adjective and the adverb have the same form.
Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.
In “When traveling, one should be careful with one’s personal belongings”, the underlined form does not exist as a possessive adjective.
In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.
In the Silent Way, errors are to be avoided at all costs through the teacher’s awareness of where the students will have difficulty and restriction of what they are taught to say.
In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.
In Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), errors of form are tolerated during fluency-based activities and are seen as a natural outcome of the development of communication skills. The teacher may note the errors during fluency activities and return to them later with an accuracy-based activity.
In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.
In the Grammar-Translation method, errors are seen as a natural, indispensable part of the learning process. The teacher uses students’ errors as a basis for deciding where further work is necessary. Self and peer correction are fostered as well.
In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.
In the Total Physical Response (TPR) approach, errors are expected when students first begin speaking. The teacher should be tolerant and only correct structural errors unobtrusively. As students get more advanced, the teacher can correct more minor errors.
In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.
In Georgi Lozanov’s Suggestopedia, now called Desuggestopedia to reflect the importance placed on suggesting no limitations on learning, errors are corrected gently, with the teacher using a soft voice. This method is illustrative of what came to be known as an affectivehumanistic approach to language teaching.
As regards language teaching methods, judge the following items.
Content-based Instruction, Task-based Instruction, and the Participatory Approach to foreign language teaching subvert the idea that students should learn to use a language and suggest instead that they should use a language in order to learn it.
As regards language teaching methods, judge the following items.
In Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), the target language is a vehicle for classroom communication, not just the object of study. That is one of the reasons why the use of the mother tongue should be handled sensibly and carefully.
As regards language teaching methods, judge the following items.
Integrating the four skills (reading, speaking, listening, and writing) from the beginning is a characteristic of the Audio- Lingual Method because it is concerned with habit formation.
