ENG519 Final Term Quiz from Assessments

ENG519

ABSTRACT This comprehensive collection of notes is accurately crafted to empower students to excel academically, ensuring they achieve a minimum of 80% marks in their examinations. The content is organized with clarity and precision, focusing on key concepts, critical analyses, and practical applications tailored to the syllabus. These notes serve as a reliable resource for both thorough preparation and last-minute revision. Designed to inspire confidence and mastery, this guide is an essential tool for students striving for academic excellence.

Maha Malik Curriculum Design

A Special Thanks to Mina Akhtar

1. Materials can be produced that are directly relevant to students' institutional needs and that reflect local content, issues, and concerns. (True)
2. Quality materials take time to produce and resources also need to be considered before embarking on materials development. (True)
3. One of the most difficult decisions in writing is deciding on the types of exercises that will be used. (True)
4. Project Director is not responsible for overall management of the project, for setting goals and ensuring that targets are met and for interacting with all parties involved. (False)
5. When deciding about the material design, the designer should not keep in view the scope, quality and nature of the material. (False)
6. Choose the best option. The goal of developing effective teaching materials is to serve as resource for effective ____________. (learning, teaching, none of the given options, training)
7. The purpose of classroom observations is to see how teachers use materials and to find out how materials influence the quality of teaching and interaction that occurs in a lesson.

(True)

8. In some cases commercial materials give freedom to teachers to choose material as it suits them and that‘s why it is considered more useful when compared to published material.

(True)

9. Which of the following is a source of information and support for teachers? (Preplanned material, Encyclopedia, Newspaper, None of the given options)
10. Effective language materials are functional and must be contextualized: materials must contextualize the language they present. (True)
11. A single course book is sufficient to meet the diverse needs of the learners in the class.

(False)

12. A language course should provide activities aimed at increasing fluency with which learners can use the language they already know, both receptively and productively. (True)
13. Do you agree that the book should be at the right vocabulary and grammar level for the learners and should focus on the language and skills that are the goal of the course? (Yes)
14. An evaluation from designed from course book evaluation should be reliable,__________and practical. (valid, none of the given options, legal, permissible)

Q15. Which one of the following element is not provided by curriculum statements?

(instructional materials, assessment)

16. The least demanding approach in a curriculum design process is to choose an existing course book as a source of material and then apply a focused opportunistic approach on it.

(True)

17. ‘The focused opportunistic approach allows a concentrated focus with possible high- quality improvements in a course which is a drawback of this model.’ Is the given statement correct or not? (No)
18. After developing instructional materials, designing an assessment plan is required in the process of course design. (True)
19. Choose the best option. Needs analysis before the course begins is thus virtually ___________. (impossible, possible)
20. Requirement Analysis is not a part of Waterfall Model. (False)
21. Poor curriculum design misses important parts and does not deal with parts in a principled way. (True)
22. Principles, monitoring and assessment, and evaluation are included in Murdoch’s Model (2010). (False)
23. Who is responsible for all parts of the curriculum design process? (teacher, school administration)
24. Choose the best option. ‘The format and presentation part of the curriculum design process is typically done first in a focused opportunistic approach.’ Do you agree that the given statement is correct? (Yes)
25. Choose the best option. Curriculum design is seen to constitute a sequence of stages that occur in a fixed order – an approach that has been referred to as a ______________ where the output from one stage serves as the input to the stage that follows. (Waterfall Model, Circular Model)
26. In recent years, most ESL/EFL professionals have neglected authentic materials, presenting language from natural texts rather than made-up texts. (False)
27. Criteria for the selection of syllabus units include frequency, usefulness, simplicity, learnability and authenticity. (True)
28. Pick up the example of forward design method from the options given below: (Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Waterfall Method)
29. In language teaching, input refers to the linguistic content of a course. (True)
30. In the specialist approach, the potential for mismatch is great. (True)
31. Language teaching in the first part of the eighteen century was shaped by teaching methods which reflected a backward planning approach. (False)
32. Choose the best option. The natural link between structural linguistics and behaviorist learning theory that led to both the ___________ method and situational language. (Autolingual, Functional)
33. Choose the best option. __________ design is based on the assumption that input, process, and output are related in a linear fashion. (Forward, Circular)
34. The new teaching methods and approaches like Audio-lingual Method, and CLT started with process, rather than input or output and were often recognized by the novel classroom practices they employed. (True)
35. In the more recent proposals of language teaching, a more dynamic role for assessment is assumed – assessment for learning – where teaching and assessment inform each other at every stage of the teaching/learning process. Is the given statement correct or not? (Yes)