ENG505 Quiz 1

Q1. Whose idea of sensory input was taken and promoted by B. F. Skinner?

1. John Locke
2. John Shumann
3. Noam Chomsky
4. Descartes

Correct answer: John Locke

Q2. Who is the active participant in ‘Silent Way’ of language teaching?

1. Student
2. Community
3. Parents
4. Teacher

Correct answer: Student

Q3. One of the characteristics of language is that it is ______.

1. difficult
2. systematic
3. general
4. simple

Correct answer: systematic

Q4. In Cognitvisim, Chomsky ___________ competence and performance.

1. combines
2. negates
3. separates
4. describes

Correct answer: separates

Q5. ‘Approach’ is a set of _____ about the nature of language learning.

1. principles
2. methods
3. objectives
4. goals

Correct answer: principles

Q6. Who kept ‘Method’ at the highest hierarchical position in the language teaching/learning framework?

1. Richards and Rodgers
2. Stern
3. R. Repka
4. All of them

Correct answer: Richards and Rodgers

Q7. Which of the following theories focuses on the use of scaffolding, providing feedback, correcting errors and encouraging the language learners to speak?

1. Cognitive
2. Conversation
3. Acculturation
4. Behaviouristic

Correct answer: Conversation

Q8. Social Learning Theory by Bandura focuses on ____________.

1. none of the given options
2. thinking
3. feeling
4. interaction

Correct answer: interaction

Q9. Explicit Learning is ________ awareness of a learner’s modification of his/her knowledge base.

1. conscious
2. unconscious
3. comatose
4. insentient

Correct answer: conscious

Q10. Mentalist approach says that _______________ is a process, carried out in the first years of childhood

1. analysis
2. learning
3. acquisition
4. motivation

Correct answer: acquisition