ENG513 Midterm Past Papers 2025 by Nimma Malik

Acronyms · Cooperative Language Learning (CLL) · Higher Education Commission (HEC) · Collaborative Learning (CL) · Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) · Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) · Total Physical Response (TPR) · Direct Method (DM) · Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) · ESL (English as a Second Language) · EFL (English as a Foreign Language) · LTM (Language Teaching Methods) · Competency-Based Language Teaching (CBLT)

Security, attention and aggression, retention and reflection, discrimination (SARD)

Audio-Lingual Method (ALM) · English Language Teaching Reforms (ELTR) · MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES (MI) · Competency-Based Education (CBE) · IMP MCQs

Traditional IQ or intelligence tests are based on a test called the Stanford-Binet.

(MI) refers to a learner-based philosophy.

A widely accepted view of intelligence is that intelligence – however measured and in whatever circumstance - comprises a single factor, usually called the "g" factor.

MI is based on the work of Howard Gardner of the Harvard Graduate School of Education

CBLT also shares features of the graded objectives movement that was proposed as a framework for organizing foreign language teaching in Britain in the 1980s.

Chomsky, the father of contemporary studies in syntax, has recently adopted a "lexicon-isprime" position in his Minimalist Linguistic theory.

Hymes proposed a theory of communicative competence incorporating sociocultural norms governing language communication.

Austin’s speech act theory elaborated on how language users perform speech acts such as requesting, informing, apologizing, and so forth.

The theoretical attack on audio-lingual beliefs resulted from changes in American linguistic theory in the 1960s.

Noam Chomsky rejected the structuralists’ approach.

The Silent Way is the name of a method of language teaching devised by Caleb Gattegno.

the use of color charts and the colored Cuisenaire rods, grew out of Gattegno's previous experience as an educational designer of reading and mathematics programs.

Learning is facilitated by problem solving involving the material to be learned

SUBJECTIVE PART

three tasks of cooperative language learning?

Coelho (1992b, p. 132) describes three major kinds of cooperative learning tasks and their learning focus, each of which has many variations.

1) Team Practice from Common Input 2) Jigsaw 3) Cooperative Projects

Strengths of Grammar Translation Method?

Strengths of Grammar Translation Method include:

❖ Forming good academic knowledge of the target language ❖ Training grammar accuracy ❖ Developing students ‘memory

Weaknesses of Grammar Translation Method?

• Grammar–translation classes are usually conducted in the students' native language.
• Grammar rules are learned deductively.
• Students learn grammar rules by rote.
• the lack of using language for communicative purposes
• lack of development of communicative skills
• little, if any, experience of speaking and listening

name of two school where direct method is used in past?

1. Berlitz Language Schools
2. Inlingua
3. Foreign Service Institute (FSI) of the U.S. State Department

The reasons of low proficiency in English?

➢ Bifurcated streams of education ➢ Methods’ choices and SL Proficiency ➢ SL proficiency and difference in public and private schools ➢ Focus on reading and writing