MCQ Bank
The syllabus is a critical piece of ______between instructor and student that warrants thoughtful design.
- A) foundation
- B) communication
- C) function
- D) engagement
Who have the greatest influence on the quality and quantity of L2 vocabulary learnt by EFL learners with reference to Laufer (2003) hypothesis?
- A) books
- B) activities
- C) teachers
- D) instructions
The tasks in which learners present ideas, information and views individually to a single listener or a group of listeners is termed as ________.
- A) communication-gap tasks
- B) feedback tasks
- C) discussion tasks
- D) monologic tasks
Which of the following theorists highlighted the need to focus on the high-frequency words?
- A) Webb and Chang (2012)
- B) West and Nation (1999)
- C) Nurweni and Read (1999)
- D) Xue and Nation (1984)
How many word families are required to deal with most spoken texts?
- A) 8000-9000
- B) 6000-7000
- C) 5000-6000
- D) 4000-5000
The learning of pronunciation definitely should incorporate advanced________.
- A) techniques
- B) technology
- C) methods
- D) internet
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