ENG503 Final Term Past Papers

32 MCQs; 8 Questions of 3 Marks & 4 Questions of 5 Marks

Time Duration: 120 minutes

1. Learners of English; often no clear relation between spellings and pronunciation.
2. Grammar adds meanings that are not easily inferable from the immediate context

3. Pronunciation lessons work best if they involve students in actual speaking

4. Creative nonfiction usually takes reality as its origin

5. Which of the following types of corpus contains texts from different period? Diachronic

Corpus.

6. In education the acronym ICE stands for: INTERANTIONAL CORPUS OF ENGLISH.
7. Most of the literary works included in the language courses belong to classical English literature
8. Lesson plan works as a map - shows where you start, where you finish and the route to take to get there

10. The process of collecting information about learner needs is called (Need Analysis)

11. An aim refers to a statement of a general change that a program seeks to bring about in learners.
12. Which type of evaluation finds out what is working well, and what is not, and what problems need to be addressed? Formative Evaluation
13. Instruction Skills is what most people think of as teaching.
14. Assessment and grading are essential tasks for all educators.

15. Research is a process of constant exploration and discovery

16. The performance of ELT has remained below satisfactory in many EFL/ESL contexts including Pakistan
17. In education, ELT stands for (English Language teaching).
18. The social contexts of Emily Bronte’s novels need to be understood in the context of Victorian morality in Britain.
19. According to Fairclough (1995), ideologies are acquired, expressed and enacted with the help of language.
20. All the prosperous nations have developed a/an ‘research culture’.

Q. Ways Deductive Approach is criticized by Adamson?(3)

Criticism of DA (Adamson)

1. Teaches grammar in an isolated way.
2. Little attention is paid to meaning.
3. Practice is often mechanical.

Q. Three assumptions of Critical Discourse analysis?(3)

•  Language use is always social.
•  Discourse both reflects and constructs the social world.
•  Power relations are discursive.
•  Discourse does ideological work.
•  Discourse is historical.
•  The link between text and society is mediated. Discourse is a form of social action.

Q. What do you understand by the phrase “Controlled Practice” in the classroom? Enlist two examples. (3) It focuses only on the target language giving students many opportunities to use it. Here are a few examples:

•  Drills and gap-fill
•  Sentence completion
•  Quizzes and tests
•  Games, Information search, dictation, etc.

Q. Two benefits of describing ‘objectives’(3)

•  They facilitate planning: once objectives have been agreed on, course/ planning, materials preparation, textbook selection, and related processes can begin.
•  They "provide measurable outcomes and thus provide accountability: given a set of objectives, the success or failure of a program.

Q. Any six trends of research in ELT (3)

1. English Language Curriculum, Assessment, and Reform

What should be taught to students on different levels? How can school/university programs be organized to optimize the English Language Learning development of students? What processes can be employed to enable teachers and policy makers to understand the strengths and weaknesses of schools?

2. Individual Differences

L2 Motivation, anxiety, attitudes, aptitudes are powerful contributor to the learner’s ability to learn a language.

3. Learner Autonomy and Self Efficacy

The learner’s autnomy is very much important to make him a successful learner.

4. Course and Material Development

It is according to the needs of students and changing trends of the use of English in various social and Academic fields. Not only development but the division is also a popular area of research.

5. Learning and Teaching Strategies

They are also very much important in various contexts.