MCQ Bank
A good _______ is someone who is able to influence others with his or her words.
- A) speaker
- B) peer
- C) learner
- D) listener
Wells (2005)appeals to _________as a way to locate areas of difficulty in vocabulary teaching.
- A) fossilization
- B) language transfer
- C) contrastive analysis
- D) language awareness
Which of the following may be the indirect activities for vocabulary learning?
- A) intensive reading and extensive listening
- B) intensive reading and extensive viewing
- C) intensive reading and intensive listening
- D) extensive reading and extensive viewing
The speaker’s mental planning process to determine what he or she intends to say is called _________.
- A) articulation
- B) production
- C) conceptualisation
- D) demonstration
L2 vocabulary learning rates are _______unlike L1 vocabulary learning.
- A) slow and straight
- B) slow and smooth
- C) slow and uniform
- D) slow and uneven
EFL stands for ______.
- A) English as an International Language
- B) English as a Lingua Franca
- C) English as a Second Language
- D) English as a Foreign Language
The repeated use of the similar communication task or discourse sequences by learners with the same or different people is called ________ (Bygate 2001.
- A) task enhancement
- B) task repetition
- C) pre-task planning
- D) communication-gap tasks
While teaching vocabulary, the teachers are advised to avoid teaching all the jargons related to _________.
- A) All the given options
- B) phonetics and phonology
- C) phonetics and grammar
- D) phonetics and semantics
Which of the following theorist do not completely agree on the details of the Lingua Franca Core?
- A) Jenkins and Schmidt
- B) Jenkins and Wells
- C) Schmidt and Wells
- D) Jenkins and Walker
Which of the following is measured by speed of access or production and by the number of hesitations?
- A) Performance
- B) Accuracy
- C) Fluency
- D) Complexity
Which of the following activity is a sure way of developing fluency?
- A) Brainstorming
- B) Repetition
- C) Focus
- D) Observation
Which of the following techniques is used to deliberately trick someone?
- A) Collocation patterns
- B) Error correction
- C) Garden path
- D) Error repetition
Learners need to be pushed to turn their ________ knowledge into productive use.
- A) prior
- B) classroom
- C) formal
- D) receptive
Language-focused learning has an important role to play in __________language acquisition.
- A) computer
- B) first
- C) native
- D) second
Language-focused ___________ instruction involves looking at a word as part of a system.
- A) vocabulary
- B) grammar
- C) lesson
- D) syntax
Vocabulary instructions should involve thoughtful processing so that the words are____________.
- A) adopted
- B) accepted
- C) remembered
- D) digested
Many fluency techniques involve the ________ of skills.
- A) exploration
- B) construction
- C) observation
- D) linking
Which of the following process involves preparing for a task before the task is performed?
- A) Planning
- B) Observing
- C) Skimming
- D) Analyzing
Which of the following exercises is used to teach relative clauses?
- A) Transformation
- B) Translocation
- C) Modification
- D) Transcoding
The acronym LIST stands for ___________.
- A) Literature, Ideas, Skill, Text
- B) Literature, Ideas, Skill, Talent
- C) Language, Ideas, Skill, Talent
- D) Language, Ideas, Skill, Text