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A. the 1970s
B. the end of the 18th century
C. the end of World War
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D. the end of the 19th century
( )
6. The Direct Method was developed in the 19th century as a reaction against _____.
A. the Oral Approach
B. the Natural Method
C. the Grammar-Translation Method
D. the Audiolingual Method
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7. The revolution in linguistic theory in the 1960s refers to the appearance of the ____.
A. structuralist theory
B. communicative linguistics
C. transformational-Generative Grammar
D. habit-formation theory
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8. The Oral Approach originated in ________.
A.
Australia
B. America
C. Britain
D.
China
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9.
“
Teach the language, not about the language
”
is a principle of ________.
A. Communicative Approach
B. Oral Method
C. Cognitive Approach
D. Audiolingual Method
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10. The way to make students as relaxed and comfortable as possible and to provide easy chairs, soft lighting and music belongs to ________.
A. the
Silent Way
B. Suggestopaedia
C. Community Language Learning
D. Total Physical Response
四、配对题(
16
%)
Ⅰ
. The following are statements about theories of language. Decide if they support the Communicative Approach, the Direct Method, the Audiolingual Method, the Cognitive Approach, the Grammar-Translation Method, the Natural Approach or the Oral Approach. (6%)
1. The underlying theory of language was derived from Comparative Historical Linguistics. _____________________
2. Meaning was seen to depend to a large degree on the sociocultural contexts in which speech acts occurred.
_____________________
3. Verbal expression is intimately linked with thought about real events and the sentence was regarded as a more useful unit of language instruction than the word, and the verb no less important than the noun.
_____________________
4.
The theory of language can be characterized as a type of British structuralism.
_____________________
5. Language has the property of creativity: with the general grammatical rules it is possible to create an infinite number of sentences in any language. _____________________
6. The underlying theory of language was derived from structural linguistics with
Bloomfield
and Fries as its representatives. _____________________
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. Decide which technique(s) is (are) most often used by what method. (10%)
1. Maximum use is made of the classroom situation and students engage in such activities as opening and closing doors and windows, naming objects, and counting their fingers.
2. Commands to direct behavior.
3. Use of task-based materials and relia.
4. The employment of situations for presenting new sentence patterns and drill-based manner of practicing them.
5. Use dictation to reinforce and test what the students have learned.
6. Use mini-dialogues to help students to learn to make appropriate response or to reply to a given utterance.
7. Use role play.
8. Give formal grammatical explanations and analysis to teach the written language.
9. Use translation from mother tongue into the target language or vice versa and rewrite a story, an event or a text.
10. Difficult sentences are analyzed in detail and compared with the first language sentence.
a. Grammar-Translation _____________________
b. The Natural Approach _____________________
c. The Cognitive Approach
_____________________
d. The Direct Method _____________________
e. The Communicative Approach _____________________
f. The Audiolingual Method _____________________
g. The Oral Approach _____________________
五、简答题
Answer the following questions (30%)
1. What are the generative linguists interested in?
2. What do assimilation and accommodation refer to in Piaget
’
s theory of cognitive development?
3. What are the characteristics of FLT in the 1970s?
4. What are the guidelines for classroom practice set up by advocates of the Natural Approach?
5. What are the main defects found in the Audiolingual Method?
六、论述题(
20
%)
1. How do you compare the Notional-Functional Syllabus with the Structural Syllabus?
2. What kinds of roles do teachers play in the Audiolighual classroom?
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