ENG519 Midterm Compilation by Nimma Malik

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Acronyms

LCD (Language Curriculum Design)

Competency-Based Language Teaching (CBLT)

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

(EGP) English for General Purposes.

overhead transparency (OHT)

curriculum design (CD)

National Curriculum of English Language NCEL

NNES (non-native English-speaking students)

Foreign Language Teaching (FLT)

TBLT — Task-Based Language Teaching

TESOL – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

IELTS (International English Language Testing System)

NAFSA – National Association for Foreign Student Affairs

CTESOL – Connecticut Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

certificate in Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA)

ICT — Information and Communication Technology

TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

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IMP MCQs

1. Vocabulary is one of the most obvious components of language and one of the first things applied linguists turned their attention to.
2. Register analysis studies the language of such fields as journalism, medicine, or law for distinctive patterns of occurrence of vocabulary, verb forms, noun phrases, and tense usage.
3. Syllabus design is the process of developing a syllabus.
4. Bobbitt (1990), who was one of the founders of curriculum theory, advocated this view of the curriculum.
5. CBLT first emerged in the United States in the 1970s (IMP)
6. Thus, these core issues to vocabulary selection led to the emergence of lexical syllabus.
7. Curriculum includes all those activities which engage children and adults in the school.
8. Two aspects of selection received primary attention in the first few decades of the 20th century. These are Vocabulary selection and Grammar selection.
9. Cultural pluralism leads to the bilingual education in some parts of the world.
10. Meaning-focused input involves having the opportunity to learn from listening and

speaking

11. Words that cover or include the meanings of other words may also be useful. For example, seat might be taught because it includes the meanings of stool, bench, and chair. (Coverage)
12. vocabulary selection laid the foundations for syllabus design in language teaching.
13. Language Curriculum Design has undergone many changes and the reason is the quest for the best method.

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14. Developing materials can help develop expertise among staff, giving them a greater understanding of the characteristics of effective materials.
15. ‘Curriculum studies’ deals with the planning of instruction and the study of how curriculum plans are implemented.
16. Situation analysis is an analysis of factors in the context of a planned or present curriculum project that is made in order to assess their political, social, economic, or institutional situation.
17. Textbooks can provide support for teachers.
18. Academic rationalism is sometimes used to justify the inclusion of certain foreign languages in school curricula, where they are taught not as tools for communication but as an aspect of social studies.
19. The approach that emphasizes first on those teaching structures that are similar to the native language called linguistic distance.
20. the ESP approach in language teaching drew on register analysis and discourse analysis to determine the linguistic characteristics of different disciplines such as medicine, engineering, or science.
21. Meaning focused input should involve learner in conversation.
22. The procedures of vocabulary selection led to the compilation of a basic vocabulary (now
23. The term ‘curriculum studies’ refers to a very broad field of inquiry that deals with what happens in schools and other educational institutions.
24. Linguistics was a source of theories about the organization and structure of language.
25. English for General Purposes (EGP).
26. The first step in the curriculum development process is often Needs analysis.
27. Discourse analysis examines the communicative contexts that affect language use.