16.Learning is best served by collaboration between teacher and students and among students. Which theoretical concept
facilitates such learning?
(A) ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) (B) ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development)
(C) LAD (Language Acquisition Device) (D) LEP (Limited English Proficiency)
17.When a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation,
what occurs?
(A) Assimilation (B) Imitation (C) Displacement (D) Code-switching
18.What is the imitation of words, phrases, and even whole sentences in the absence of an understanding of what is being said?
(A) Epiglottis (B) Semanticity (C) Sensorimotor (D) Echolalia
19.A branch of semantics, concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition and implication, is called
________.
(A) Logical semantics (B) Operational semantics (C) Computational semantics (D) Lexical semantics
20.Which statement best describes prepositions, such as at, for, and by?
(A) Content and free morphemes (B) Content and bound morphemes
(C) Function and free morphemes (D) Function and bound morphemes
21.What is the relationship between the adjectives “wet” and “dry” in this sentence “Mix the wet and dry ingredients separately,
combining them just before cooking”?
(A) Complementary antonyms (B) Gradable antonyms (C) Reverses (D) Converses
22.Language teachers are expected to design speaking or writing exercises that make demands on learners for correct and
appropriate use of the target language in order to develop certain grammatical features that do not appear to be acquired
purely on the basis of comprehending input. Which theory best supports this claim?
(A) Internal cause hypothesis (B) Critical period hypothesis
(C) Input hypothesis (D) Comprehensible output hypothesis
23.Examine the following exchange:
Jack: Will you come to my birthday party?
Jane: My parents are visiting.
On the basis of the context knowledge that Jane might spend a quiet family gathering with her parents, Jack infers that Jane
will not come to the party. The conveyed meaning worked out from the inferences results from ________.
(A) conversational implicature (B) denotation (C) structural presupposition (D) attributive reference
24.Which of the following exemplifies phonologically-conditioned allomorphic alternation?
(A) The variants of /t/ as in tie, stay, smart
(B) The variants of /d/ as in walked, played, started
(C) The variants of the lateral sound as in light and tell
(D) The alternation between /f/ and /v/ as in wife–wives, leaf–leaves
26.Which of the following is NOT correct?
(A) The interpretation of a pronoun can be determined by another element, called the antecedent.
(B) In the sentence “Betty was my former classmate. She is now my teacher.,” the pronoun “She” is an anaphor.
(C) In the sentence “This is a big city.,” the deictic form “This” has gestural function.
(D) In the sentence “The book over there is Mary’s.,” the noun phrase “The book over there” is an exophoric reference.
27.Which of the following is NOT a correct description about English word formation processes?
(A) The word textbook is a compound
(B) The word gym for gymnasium is an example of clipping.
(C) NATO for North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an acronym.
(D) The use of geese as the plural form of goose is an example of suppletion.
28.Teaching from a multiple intelligence perspective is to deliberately plan lessons so that the different intelligences are
represented. Which of the following represents the ability to orient oneself in the environment to create mental images, and a
sensitivity to shape, size, color?
(A) Intrapersonal intelligence (B) Logical/mathematical intelligence
(C) Naturalist intelligence (D) Visual/spatial intelligence
29.Based on Tarone’s taxonomy of communication strategies, which of the following refers to learners’ use of word coinage,
and approximation to overcome communication problems caused by a lack of linguistic resources?
(A) Transfer (B) Code switching (C) Paraphrase (D) Borrowing
31.According to Canale and Swain, communicative competence encompasses four competence areas. The ability to combine
language structures into different types of cohesive and coherent texts is called ________.
(A) strategic competence (B) discourse competence (C) sociolinguistic competence (D) situational competence
32.What is NOT of Stephen Krashen’s Hypotheses?
(A) Learners with high motivation, self-confidence, a good self-image, a low level of anxiety and extroversion are better
equipped for success in second language acquisition.
(B) Children receive rewards for using language in a functional manner and learn language through imitation of others,
prompting, and shaping.
(C) Children learning their first language acquire grammatical structures in a pre-determined, natural order, and that some
are acquired earlier than others.
(D) Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language in which speakers are concerned not with the form of
their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding.
33.A test style which uses test scores to generate a statement about the behavior that can be expected of a person with that score.
(A) Criterion-referenced testing (B) Norm-referenced testing (C) Standardized testing (D) Performance testing
34.Mrs. Heaton gives her students a picture of a supermarket and asks her students to describe this picture. She assesses her
students’ oral performance based on the following table. What type of assessment does Mrs. Heaton employ?
35.The second graders in Ms. Rogers’ class sing a song “Hokey Pokey.” They do the correct action as they sing the song.
Which teaching method supports Ms. Rogers’ classroom practice?
(A) Audio-lingual method (B) Community language learning (C) Desuggestopedia (D) Total physical response
36.Which of the following descriptions about syllabus is NOT correct?
(A) Notional-functional and task syllabuses are synthetic.
(B) Structural syllabus views language learning as additive.
(C) Text-based syllabus emphasizes the products of learning rather than the processes.
(D) Situational syllabus is based on the progressivism approach.
37.Mr. Phillips: Read the story “Belling the Cat” and underline all the examples of the past tense you can find.
What is Mr. Phillips’ purpose of grammar exercise?
(A) Students form sentences of their own according to a set pattern.
(B) Students are provided with a visual or situational cue and invited to compose their own responses.
(C) Students are given opportunities to encounter the grammatical point within some kind of discourse.
(D) Students hold a discussion or write a passage according to a given task.
38.Mrs. Gregory prepares the listening and speaking activities for her students as revealed in the table. How does Mrs. Gregory
differentiate her instruction?
39.Before teaching vowels, Mr. Carroll asked his students to read the words or phrases such as turquoise, sky blue, auburn, etc.
to see if vowels are substituted, omitted, stressed, or linked to other vowels across word boundaries. What kind of test did
Mr. Carroll give to his students?
(A) A placement test (B) A diagnostic test (C) A proficiency test (D) A summative test
40.Which characteristic best describes the task-based language teaching?
(A) The tasks are meaningful and relevant so that the students see the reason for doing the task.
(B) A pre-task phase takes place to reinforce students’ learning or to address any problems that many have risen.
(C) A teacher can introduce the students to the language they will need to complete the task during the post-task phase.
(D) A follow-up to a communicative task involves teaching strategies and study skills for preparing students for an exam.
41.In a class, Ms. Chang asked students to divide the word books into [bʊk] and [s]. What task did Ms. Chang implement in
class?
(A) A morphological awareness task (B) A phonemic awareness task
(C) A syllable awareness task (D) An onset-rime awareness task
42.Prabhu identified three types of tasks. In the task-based language teaching lesson, students conducted an oral survey about
the most and least favorite subjects of the classmates. This is ________.
(A) a reasoning-gap task (B) an information-gap task
(C) an opinion-gap task (D) an incidental-gap task
43.“Learners can determine which objects are magnetic and which are not” and “observe that magnets have two sides—north
and south” are the two major aims of Mr. Heath’s lesson plan.
Which teaching method best supports this lesson?
(A) problem-based learning (B) project-based learning
(C) content and language integrated learning (D) computer assisted language teaching
44.The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching and assessment Ability (CEFR) is an
international standard, which describes language ability at six reference levels. According to the descriptive scheme, if
learners can produce well-structured detailed text on complex subjects, displaying controlled use of organizational patterns,
connectors and cohesive devices, their speaking ability is classified at the __________ level.
(A) B1 (B) B2 (C) C1 (D) C2