MCQ Bank
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
Repeating an activity is a useful way of _______ fluency.
- A) learning
- B) adopting
- C) rehearsing
- D) developing
Giving learners a chance to prepare for ________can increase their chances of success
- A) judgement
- B) conversation
- C) debate
- D) task
Which of the following procedures involves a changing audience which can provide opportunities for repetition?
- A) Pyramid
- B) Triads
- C) Listen and do
- D) Information transfer
Which of the following is often a neglected strand of a course?
- A) Fluency
- B) Meaning-focused input
- C) Language-focused
- D) Meaning-focused output
Language-focused vocabulary learning raises awareness of the __________systematic features of vocabulary.
- A) systematic
- B) lexical
- C) syntactic
- D) morphological
Comprehension processes involves _________decoding.
- A) structural
- B) semantic
- C) logical
- D) syntactic
Fluency tasks should be largely ________ processing.
- A) none of the given options
- B) front-up
- C) bottom-up
- D) top-down
Which of the following approach suggests that speaking should not be encouraged until learners have substantial receptive experience?
- A) Logical
- B) Comprehension
- C) Focused
- D) Experimental
In which of the following speaking conveying information is not as important as maintaining friendly relationship?
- A) Planned
- B) Informal
- C) Formal
- D) Focused