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FELT Language, Learning & Teaching
Contributed by: Rossbach
  • 1. "language" refers to...
A) a process trough which people understand things.
B) a systematic means ofcommunicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventional signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings.
C) a sequence of actions that humans carry out to learn from others.
D) communication primarily among primates and mammals.
E) a sequence of vocal symbols intended to share thoughts and ideas.
  • 2. "teaching" refers to...
A) Preparing fun activities that Ss like.
B) Assisting the learner in the process of learning.
C) innate ability to communicate.
D) the transfer of information from one individual to another to preserve the species.
E) difficulty in the process of developing a skill.
  • 3. "learning" refers to...
A) Grasping, getting, obtaining or developing knowledge/skill/attitude.
B) internalizing the sense of life and philosophy.
C) obtaining data from other humans through language.
D) discovering the many things one can select in life.
E) questioning, doubting, criticizing, investigating data and abilities.
  • 4. First Language Acquisition has to do with ...
A) any sound uttered by human offspring.
B) the process with which we learn our mother tongue.
C) the process of acquiring a foreign language through classes.
D) the complicated vocal symbols acquired by babies without sense.
E) the natural way of learning a second language.
  • 5. Second Language Acquisition has to do with...
A) the second chance we have to learn a language in school or outside.
B) the second language rules, skills, and processes.
C) the process of learning our first language for the second time with more detail to higher vocabulary and structure.
D) the process of learning a language other than our native one.
E) grasping and internalizing the culture of another country whose language is different to ours.
  • 6. LAD is a theory proposed by ...
A) Howard Gardner
B) Jean Piaget
C) Frederick Skinner
D) Noah Chomsky
E) Carl Rogers
  • 7. LAD belongs to the ... approach
A) cognitive
B) behavioristic
C) mediation
D) meaningful
E) nativist
  • 8. The behavioristic approach states that learning relies on ...
A) relationship, webs
B) affective, social
C) repetition, practice
D) cognitive, thoughts
E) stimulus, response
  • 9. The cognitive approach states that...
A) humans learn better when they relate known information to new information, building webs of data.
B) humans are a "tabula rasa" that can be filled with any information and taught any skill, language included.
C) the brain has little or no role in the language learning process but that the social and affective factors have a determinant role.
D) the human brain can code, decode, combine, and relate different patterns with hundreds of pieces of language.
E) brains, social, affective, cultural, and psychological issues all play a role in the language learning process.
  • 10. Based on the read chapters, Skinner proposed the .... theory of Language Acquisition
A) operant conditioning
B) constructivistic
C) experiential
D) nativist
E) cognitive
  • 11. The teacher's job is to...
A) assign homework and carefully check it.
B) share anecdotes and personal information to illustrate topics.
C) help learners learn
D) make learners happy
E) design and carry out many activities.
  • 12. The ability to distinguish speech sounds from other sounds in the environment and the ability to organize linguistic events knowing that only one code is possible, are both part of ...
A) CEFR
B) EFL
C) ESL
D) ELT
E) LAD
  • 13. The idea that ALL the languages of the world count with words to name things (nouns), words to name actions (verbs) and words to establish relationships (prepositions), is part of of an hypothesis called:....
A) second language acquisition
B) generative linguistics
C) universal grammar
D) communicative teaching
E) first language acquisition
  • 14. Considering that "language is one manifestation of general human development , one aspect of the cognitive and affective ability to deal with the world and with self" is a proposal of the ....
A) Behavioristic Approach to ELT
B) Meaningful Learning Approach
C) Nativist Approach to ELT
D) Functional Approach to ELT
E) Constructivistic Approach
  • 15. The knowledge about a language system and the ability to communicate in such language is called:...
A) production
B) input
C) discourse
D) performance
E) competence
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