​2012年高等教育自学考试外语教学法单元自测试卷(2)

2012年高等教育自学考试外语教学法单元自测试卷(2)：2012年高等教育自学考试外语教学法单元自测试卷。本试卷总分150分；共有5类型题目

一、单选

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 theory of language underlying the Grammar-Translation Method was derived from______.
A. functional linguistics
B. structuralism
C. psychological linguistics
D. comparative historical linguistics

2.The grammar analysis and translation as basic procedures appeared in the foreign language learning in the______.
A. 16th century
B. 17th century
C. 18th century
D. 19th century

3.During the World War Ⅱ, Leonard Bloomfield and C. C. Fries applied theories and ideas of behaviourism and structuralism systematically to foreign language teaching and devised a new approach called______.
A. the Direct Method
B. the Oral Approach
C. the Audiolingual Method
D. the Cognitive Approach

4.Some of the objectives of the Grammar-Translation Method are______ and to train a better understanding of the first language.
A. to help students read literature
B. to make students exercise move
C. to provide students with good mental exercise
D. to have learners listen and speak more

5.An Oral Approach text-book contains tightly organized lessons planned around different______ and language points.
A. vocabulary
B. sentence patterns
C. grammatical structures
D. passages

6.______ believes that language samples can be exhaustively described at any structural level of descriptions.
A. The Grammar-Translation Method
B. The Cognitive Approach
C. The Audiolingual Method
D. The Communicative Approach

7.In the Natural Approach, a focus on comprehension and ______ as well as the provision of right kinds of input provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for successful language acquisition.
A. unforgetful communication
B. meaningful communication
C. comprehensible meaning
D. meaningful context and setting

8.The Oral Approach originated with the work of______ linguists.
A. British
B. American
C. Japanese
D. German

9.The Cognitive Approach teachers believe language learning is ______ not simply the forming of habits.
A. a process
B. recognition
C. communication
D. presentation

10.The core of the Natural Approach is ______ which is considered a subconscious process.
A. language learning
B. linguistic competence
C. linguistic capacity
D. language acquisition

11.The monitor theory, which is very popular among foreign language teachers in ______, was put forward by Stephen Krashen in the late 1970s.
A. America
B. Britain
C. China
D. France

12.The Natural Approach teachers have three central roles: to be the primary source of comprehensible input in the target language, ______and to choose and use a rich mix of classroom activities.
A. to make learners active in class
B. to help learners understand messages
C. to create a classroom atmosphere that is interesting, friendly
D. to teach students grammatical rules

13.The role of the learners in a Communicative Approach classroom are______.
A. a negotiator
B. a communicator
C. a contributor
D. all of the above

14.The Total Physical Response method, put forward by ______, is a language teaching method which attempts to teach language through physical activity.
A. James Asher
B. Caleb Gattegno
C. Charles Curran
D. Georgi Lozanov

15.The general objective of the Silent Way is to give beginning level students ______in basic elements of the target language.
A. reading comprehension ability
B. translating ability
C. oral and aural facility
D. thinking capacity

二、填空

Ⅱ. Filling BlanksDirections: 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.Direct association of language with ______and persons of the immediate environment is emphasized in the Direct Method.

17.The______ Method aims to enable the learners to read and translate its literature.

18.Palmer held that language learning in real life differs from language learning in the______.

19.The______ Method uses dialogues as the chief means of presenting the language.

20.In the ______Approach, the teacher creates speeches which enable students to interact using the target language. Students are not forced to respond in the target language immediately.

21.According to Krashen, acquisition is responsible for the ______ of the utterances while learning is responsible for the______ of the speeches or passages.

22.The Cognitive Approach lays emphasis on the ______ acquisition of language as a meaningful system.

24.______Approach emphasizes on learning to communicate in the target language and the introduction of authentic texts into learning situations.

25.The two categories of meaning of language proposed by Wilkins are "______" and "______".

26.The generative______ of the Total Physical Response method is to teach ______ proficiency at a beginning level.

27.______ and ______ are emphasized by the Oral Approach.

28.The learning theory of Audiolingualism is the ______ psychology.

29.According to Canale and Swain, ______ competence refers to the interpretation of individual message elements in terms of their interconnectedness and of how meaning is represented in relationship to the entire discourse or text.

30.The best method of teaching language meaning is to use the learners______ exeprience.

三、匹配

Ⅲ. MatchingDirections: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 pair you match.

31.Column A
1) ______the Grammar-Translation Method
2) ______ the Direct Method
3) ______ the Oral Approach
4) ______ the Audiolingual Method
5) ______ the Cognitive Approach
Column B
a) The neogrammarians, represented by Hermann Paul formed its main linguistic base.
b) The structural linguists believed that the primary medium of language is oral, that is language is speech.
c) It lays emphasis on the conscious acquisition of language as a meaningful system.
d) It can be characterized as a type of British "structuralism".
e) It believes in the natural process of language learning and in the inductive teaching of grammar.

32.Column A
1) ______ the Oral Approach
2) ______ the Cognitive Approach
3) ______ the Audiolingual Method
4) ______ the Natural Approach
5) ______ the Communicative Approach
Column B
a) Dictation, imitation and controlled oral-based reading and writing tasks.
b) Dialogues and pattern practice form. the basis of the classroom practice.
c) The first step in the classroom is to present all new sounds, vocabulary and structures in a manner meaningful to each student.
d) In the early stages of speech production, it uses random volunteered group response, which place little demand on the individual student but allow early use of the target language.
e) Developing listening and note-taking skills using audio-video materials; giving oral presentation; project work; role-play and simulation.

33.Column A
1) ______ linguistic competence and linguistic performance
2) ______ assimilation and accommodation
3) ______ the language acquisition device (LAD)
4) ______ communicative competence
5) ______ the input hypothesis
Column B
a) The former is the process by which incoming information is changed or modified in our minds so that we can fit it in with what we already know; while the latter is the process by which we modify what we already know to take into account new information.
b) The former refers to knowledge of grammatical rules of language; whale the latter refers to application of language.
c) The ability not only to apply the grammatical rules of a language in order to form. grammatically correct sentences but also to know when and where to use these sentences and to whom.
d) A sort of mechanism or device which contains the capacity to acquire one"s first language.
e) It assumes that humans acquire language in only one way--by understanding messages, or by receiving "comprehensible input".

四、简答

Ⅳ. Questions for Brief AnswersDirections: This section has six questions. You are to briefly answer them. Five points are given to each question.

34.How useful are the techniques used by a cognitive teacher to your English teaching and learning experience?

35.How do you understand the concept of "direct" in the Direct Method?

36.What is the focus of a Grammar-Translation classroom?

37.Does it make sense to you that language learning results from habit-formation? Why or why not?

38.What are the five hypotheses of the monitor theory?

39.What are the reasons for the rise and fall of the Audiolingual Method?

五、研究题

Ⅴ. Questions for Long AnswersDirections: 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.Why is the Cognitive Approach interpreted as the "modem version of Grammar-Translation Method"?

41.Comment on the four principles of cognitivism formulated by Diller.