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ENGLISH 1
Contributed by: JACOSALEM
  • 1. Which of the following is NOT considered in organizing a remedial program?
A) Behavior
B) Curriculum
C) Interaction
D) Assessment
  • 2. Which of the following is considered in correcting basic sight vocabulary deficit?
A) Have the answers of the students on the board and correct in front of other people.
B) Have the students repeat the word each time it is written
C) Have the students receive a big reward for motivation purposes.
D) Have the students read the words repeatedly without correcting them.
  • 3. Which of the following is taken into account when a student is going to take a remedial class?
A) If a student is aiming for mastery of the lessons
B) If a student is referred to special education
C) If a student has behavioral problems
D) If a student is struggling on his/her basic skills
  • 4. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an effective remedial program?
A) It is facilitated based on the student's pace.
B) It offers a small group instruction to provide more attention to individuals.
C) It is research-based using supported instructional methods.
D) It uses the same teaching techniques for mastery of the lessons.
  • 5. Which of the following is NOT recommended in using predictable books?
A) Ask the students to do advance reading on the books before discussion.
B) Deliver the words in the books with excitement.
C) Choose a short passage sufficient to be read in one session.
D) Let the students read the title and guess the content of the book.
  • 6. The boy wanted to buy some food (active voice). Some food were wanted to be bought by the boy (passive voice). Which of the following principles in grammar is applied to the given statements?
A) Functional Grammar
B) Notional Grammar
C) Traditional Grammar
D) Transformational Grammar
  • 7. Dr. Buenafe have (instead of has because the subject is singular) the materials for the painting. Which of the following principles in grammar is applied to the given statement?
A) Notional Grammar
B) Transformational Grammar
C) Traditional Grammar
D) Functional Grammar
  • 8. The committee has decided to give considerations to the family.
    The committee has decided to give considerations to the family.
    Based on the given statements, which of the following principles in grammar is applied?
A) Notional Grammar
B) Transformational Grammar
C) Functional Grammar
D) Traditional Grammar
  • 9. . Dr. Jadaone / threw the ball
    Subject Predicate declarative sentence
    Based on the given statement, the wholeness of the sentence is classified as a declarative sentence instead of the use of each word in the sentence. In this point, which of the following principles in grammar is applied?
A) Transformational Grammar
B) Traditional Grammar
C) Functional Grammar
D) Notional Grammar
  • 10. The sentence “She is gorgeous” can be changed to “The woman is amazing.”
    Which of the following principles in grammar is applied?
A) Notional Grammar
B) Functional Grammar
C) Traditional Grammar
D) Transformational Grammar
  • 11. Janeth learns to speak in English because of the movies she watches. Which of the following basic principles of language learning can be inferred from the given statement?
A) Language learning is a developmental process.
B) Language learning is not systematic.
C) Language learning is an emotional experience.
D) Language learning is a specialized skill.
  • 12. Tricia believes that the language ability of her baby can be developed through random acts like watching cartoon‑friendly movies and not using baby languages/talks when talking to a baby. Which of the following basic principles of language learning can be inferred from the given statement?
A) Language learning is not systematic.
B) Language learning is an emotional experience.
C) Language learning is a specialized skill.
D) Language learning is a developmental process.
  • 13. Because of her experiences, Ms. Natividad attaches meanings to the words of said by people to her. Which of the following basic principles of language learning can be inferred from the given statement?
A) Language learning is a specialized skill.
B) Language learning is an emotional experience.
C) Language learning is a developmental process.
D) Language learning is not systematic.
  • 14. Mrs. Alolor asked her students to memorize the poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer and instructed them to recite it in front of the class. Which principles are applied in the given scenario?
A) Strategic Investment
B) Intrinsic Motivation
C) Automaticity
D) Rote Learning
  • 15. Instead of focusing on her gestures, Mrs. Sacatrapas delivers her speech about communication skills and focuses on her audience. Which of the following principles is present in the given scenario?
A) Automaticity
B) Strategic Investment
C) Intrinsic Motivation
D) Rote Learning
  • 16. All of the following are competencies that the Basic Education Curriculum aims to develop EXCEPT
A) social awareness
B) strategic
C) sociolinguistic
D) linguistic
  • 17. The following domains for Grade 11 and 12 are included in Language Arts curriculum EXCEPT
A) reading comprehension
B) writing and composition
C) vocabulary development
D) study strategies
  • 18. Which of the following is NOT a component of developing a curriculum?
A) Humanistic Orientation
B) Behavioristic Orientation
C) Rational-Cognitive Orientation
D) Behavioristic-Rational Orientation
  • 19. Which of the following is NOT a theoretical basis for the English language curriculum?
A) Structural Notion
B) Pedagogical Thrusts
C) Theory of Language
D) Language Acquisition
  • 20. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the framework of the language curriculum?
A) Interactive
B) Contextualized
C) Degenerated
D) Integrated
  • 21. Which is NOT true about the roles of people involved in curriculum development?
A) In curriculum planning, need analysts create policy document.
B) In classroom implementation, teachers implement teaching activities.
C) In the specification stage, need analysts and methodologists create syllabus.
D) In program implementation, material writers create teaching materials.
  • 22. Which curriculum perspective considers the practical needs of learners and the society that deals with the functional skills in a foreign and second language?
A) Learner-Cednessness
B) Social Reconstructionism
C) Academic Rationalism
D) Social and Economic Efficiency
  • 23. Which curriculum perspective considers developing learner's intellect, humanistic values, and rationality?
A) Academic Rationalism
B) Social Reconstructionism
C) Social and Economic Efficiency
D) Learner-centeredness
  • 24. Which curriculum perspective considers the learner’s differences, learner’s strategies, learner’s self-direction, and autonomy?
A) Learner-centeredness
B) Social and Economic Efficiency
C) Social Reconstructionism
D) Academic Rationalism
  • 25. Which ideology of the curriculum believes that learners should appreciate other cultures and religions?
A) Social Reconstructionism
B) Social and Economic Efficiency
C) Academic Rationalism
D) Cultural Pluralism
  • 26. What is the place of articulation for the first sound of the following words: team, terrible, and tantamount?
A) Alveolar
B) Interdental
C) Labiodental
D) Bilabial
  • 27. Which set of words is a minimal pair?
A) Wise – nice
B) Pear – pair
C) Grace – graze
D) Fair – fare
  • 28. Which of the following words has a first sound that is characterized as a voiceless bilabial stop?
A) Mother
B) Sister
C) Parent
D) Brother
  • 29. All of the following words contain a schwa sound EXCEPT
A) text
B) twitter
C) messenger
D) social
  • 30. Which of the following sets of words exemplifies diphthongs?
A) Teach, speak, listen
B) Breakfast, tea, cheese
C) Reduce, reuse, start
D) Cry, break, down
  • 31. All of the following describes the aspects of suprasegmental phonology EXCEPT
A) it encompasses body movement, hand gestures, and facial expressions
B) it involves stress‑timing and intonation
C) it is not limited to single sounds
D) it is otherwise known as the prosodic features of speech
  • 32. Which of the following words does NOT have a bound morpheme?
A) Incorrect
B) Infant
C) Stressful
D) Teacher
  • 33. What kind of morpheme involved in the affixational process is common in the words posted, pictures, and fastest?
A) Zero morpheme
B) Inflectional morpheme
C) Null morpheme
D) Derivational morpheme
  • 34. Which of the following BEST describes the word formation process called conversion?
A) It is the invention of a new word.
B) It is the process of forming a new word by joining two or more words.
C) It is the process of designating an existing word to a new syntactic category.
D) It is shortening a word by deleting one or more syllables.
  • 35. What is the word formation process that the words spork, Interpol, and brunch underwent?
A) Blending
B) Suppletion
C) Backformation
D) Clipping
  • 36. All of the following sets of words exemplify derivational morphemes EXCEPT
A) colorful, distraction, conducive
B) talented, glamorous, patiently
C) boards, larger, scribbled
D) godly, powerful, professional
  • 37. How many morphemes are in the word crocodile?
A) 4
B) 2
C) 3
D) 1
  • 38. What kind of affix is present in the word misunderstanding?
A) Suffix
B) Circumfix
C) Prefix
D) Infix
  • 39. A second language learner of English says estatue for statue and filum for film. What morphophonemic process is involved in the given scenario where a vowel is added at the beginning of the word or between the sounds?
A) Vowel lengthening
B) Elision
C) Assimilation
D) Epenthesis
  • 40. Which of the following syntactic structures contains equivalent grammatical units which are often joined by a coordinating conjunction such as in lost and found?
A) Structure of Complementation
B) Structure of Predication
C) Structure of Modification
D) Structure of Coordination
  • 41. Which of the following exemplifies the syntactic structure of modification?
A) Pins and needles
B) Sympathetic colleague
C) Be careful
D) Money talks
  • 42. Which of the following BEST describes the structure of a periodic sentence?
A) It is composed only of phrases and dependent clauses.
B) It begins with phrases or dependent clauses and ends with the main independent clause.
C) It has two clauses which are similar in length and word order.
D) It begins with the main independent clause followed by phrases and dependent clauses.
  • 43. Identify the type of phrase that is enclosed in brackets in the given sentence: The faculty likes to drop by the small chapel [adjacent to the clinic] before leaving.
A) Noun phrase
B) Prepositional phrase
C) Adjective phrase
D) Adverb phrase
  • 44. All of the following sentences exemplify ellipsis in its structure EXCEPT
A) The student who wanted to become valedictorian did.
B) Should I call you or you me?
C) Anton teaches all the Research courses while Jay the Math courses.
D) I will do the dishes today if you will do the dishes tomorrow.
  • 45. Which of the following BEST describes syntactic ambiguity? It refers to
A) phrases which have more than one meaning
B) words which have more than one meaning
C) phrases which have the same meaning
D) words having the same meaning
  • 46. Which word pair exemplifies hyponymy?
A) Fly (insect) – fly (zipper)
B) Benevolent – malevolent
C) Pasta – spaghetti
D) Beauty – pulchritude
  • 47. Since she wasn’t able to get tickets for the first day of the concert, she availed herself of the ones for the second day. (ones‑tickets) What kind of linguistic reference is exemplified in the given sentence?
A) Coreference
B) Deixis
C) Anaphora
D) Entailment
  • 48. Which of the following pairs of antonyms is a gradable pair?
A) Dead – alive
B) Hot – cold
C) Fast – slow
D) Happy – sad
  • 49. Some senior high school students almost failed the exam in English. What is the sense property in the given statement?
A) Thematic
B) Synthetic
C) Contradictory
D) Analytic
  • 50. The phrase Filipino literature instructor could mean “an instructor who teaches Philippine literature” or “a literature instructor who came from the Philippines.” This case is an example of which ambiguity?
A) Structural ambiguity
B) Grammatical ambiguity
C) Lexical ambiguity
D) Syntactic ambiguity
  • 51. Conversational Maxims are the cornerstone of H.P Grice's account of linguistic pragmatics of communication. Which maxim states that one should not make his/her contribution more informative than is required?
A) Maxim of Relevance
B) Maxim of Manner
C) Maxim of Quality
D) Maxim of Quantity
  • 52. Which conversational maxim is violated in the given example?

    Speaker A: How do you do today?

    Speaker B: Oh well, you know. Same old me.
A) Maxim of Manner
B) Maxim of Relevance
C) Maxim of Quantity
D) Maxim of Quality
  • 53. In a basketball event, only the officiating referee can call out infractions of rules and decide penalties. Anyone else can shout a 'foul' but only the referee has the official word. Which felicity condition is evident in the given speech act?
A) Propositional content condition
B) Preparatory condition
C) Essential condition
D) Sincerity condition
  • 54. All of the following describe an indirect speech act EXCEPT
A) it is the evident when the syntactic form of utterance matches the illocutionary force
B) it is mainly used by people in connection with maintaining politeness
C) it is an utterance in which one speech act is performed indirectly by performing another
D) it is the lack of direct connection between the form of utterance and the intended meaning
  • 55. Which of the following describes the appropriate illocutionary force in the given situation?

    Librarian: (points to a signage saying 'Observe silence') Can't you read?

    Students: Sorry, Ma'am.
A) The librarian is telling the students that they are foolish.
B) The librarian is telling the students to read the signage.
C) The librarian is asking whether the students are illiterate or otherwise.
D) The librarian is telling the students to stop conversing in loud voices.
  • 56. After a lesson on writing a problem solution paragraph, Teacher Anton tells the students to write a paragraph in the problem solution pattern on water service interruption. Which communicative approach to language teaching is exemplified in the given situation?
A) Content based approach
B) Participatory approach
C) Taskbased approach
D) Whole language approach
  • 57. Which instruction shows the application of the content based approach to language teaching?
A) Teacher Beth dims the lights in the classroom and plays classical music as she reads a poem to her literature students.
B) Teacher April uses mind maps to activate students' background knowledge on communication.
C) Teacher Shiela uses a text on the Presidents of the Philippines through history to teach the past tense form of verbs.
D) Teacher Jay teaches his students the mnemonic to remember the order in which adjectives should appear.
  • 58. All of the following are cognitive strategies in language teaching EXCEPT
A) word association
B) drills
C) context clues
D) visualization techniques
  • 59. What process in language learning is evident in the statement below?
    Archie: I called Mom and I asked her if she eated already.
A) Habit formation
B) Simplification
C) Overgeneralization
D) Hypothesis testing
  • 60. Who among the following teachers has a teaching practice that is compatible with the humanistic approach?
A) Teacher Apple who integrates topics from other subjects in the language course
B) Teacher Leslie who emphasizes on good pronunciation and lessened grammatical errors
C) Teacher Kharen who assesses the immediate communicative needs of the language learner
D) Teacher Kelly who assesses the language learners' motivations in learning
  • 61. Which approach in language teaching is also termed mim-mem method for its dependence on mimicry and memorization for language acquisition?
A) Audiolingual approach
B) Direct approach
C) Structural approach
D) Grammar - translation approach
  • 62. Teacher Abby wants to teach her students the four basic sentence functions through games where they are to move and do challenges. Which approach in language teaching will Teacher Abby most likely apply?
A) Silent Way
B) Community Language Learning
C) Suggestopedia
D) Total Physical Response
  • 63. According to Stephen Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis, which are the first grammatical morphemes that are acquired by an average second language learner of English?
A) Auxiliary form of verb and articles (a and the)
B) Irregular past tense form of verb
C) Regular past tense, possessives, and singular form of verb
D) Progressive form of verb, plural form of noun, and copula ("to be")
  • 64. Which hypothesis deals with the consideration of the language learners' motivation, self-confidence, and anxiety in second language learning?
A) Affective Filter Hypothesis
B) Monitor Hypothesis
C) Input Hypothesis
D) Acquisition Learning Hypothesis
  • 65. Given below are metacognitive strategies that a language learner may use when he/she is beginning to learn a new language. Which is the EXCEPTION?
A) A learner monitors and assesses his/her own progress in learning the target language.
B) A learner engages in fewer conversations with speakers of his or her mother tongue.
C) A learner plans how to remember new words encountered in conversations with native speakers of the target language.
D) A learner reflects on which approaches to working out grammatical rules are more effective.
  • 66. In accordance with the schema theory, which of the following is a purpose of schema in reading? Schema is used to
A) anticipate, infer, and create judgments and decisions about the text
B) make corrections about the morphological errors in a text
C) make a distinction between facts and opinions in a text
D) enhance the learner's knowledge about the deep structure of grammar in the text
  • 67. Which of the following is an objective of the Grammar Translation Method language teaching? It is to learn the target language
A) through drills and repetition
B) through natural communication rather than formal grammar study
C) n order to read its literature
D) by engaging in authentic language use
  • 68. All of the following are summaries of the second language acquisition theory formulated by Stephen Krashen EXCEPT
A) low or weak affective filter is required to allow language input
B) acquisition is more important in learning
C) language acquisition requires comprehensible input containing i+1 structures
D) age is a definite predictor of second language rate or attainment
  • 69. Audiolingual method: tape recorder and audiovisual equipment: gesture, mime, visual aids, wall charts, and Cuisiniére rods
A) silent way
B) community language learning
C) task based approach
D) total physical response
  • 70. Which of the following is an example of a well-written behavioral objective in language teaching?
A) The learner identifies the different communicative strategies.
B) The learner demonstrates respect for cultural diversity.
C) The learner makes a distinction among the different communication models.
D) The learner makes use of the comparison contrast pattern by writing a paragraph on the similarities and differences among the features of several social media platforms.
  • 71. Given below are purposes of a Dialogue journal. Which is the EXCEPTION?
A) It may enhance writing skills in the target language.
B) It enables language learners to build relationships with native speakers of the target language.
C) It develops language learners' theoretical thinking.
D) It enables teachers to gain information about the value of a language course.
  • 72. Beth is conversing with April who has difficulty in understanding English. Beth makes sure that April understands what she is saying and makes up for communication breakdowns by accompanying her speech with appropriate gestures and body movement. Which aspect of communicative competence is evident in the given scenario?
A) Discourse competence
B) Grammatical competence
C) Sociolinguistic competence
D) Strategic competence
  • 73. Who among the following language learners exemplifies sociolinguistic competence?
A) Leah who makes sure that the words she is using are comprehensible to the language learner she is talking to
B) Ynah who knows how to nominate as well as terminate a conversation done in her second language
C) Edward who knows how to respond to different people depending on the communicative situation
D) Adolfo who is able to pronounce words in the second language with near native like competence
  • 74. BICS: skills needed in everyday, social face-to-face interactions; CALP: _____.
A) skills needed to perform tasks beyond the school setting
B) skills needed in interpersonal communication
C) skills used in the classroom in various content areas
D) skills used in informal settings to build relationships
  • 75. All of the following teachers incorporated language activities that promote CALP and BICS EXCEPT _____.
A) Teacher Maridel who gave her students the chance to become "teacher of the day"
B) Teacher Marie who conducted classroom debates
C) Teacher Tristan who conducted error analysis on learners' outputs
D) Teacher John who held book reviews in her class
  • 76. Teacher Eddie is planning to incorporate minimal pair drills in his language class. All of the following could be Teacher Eddie's learning objective EXCEPT _____.
A) to identify which pairs are homophones
B) to distinguish between sounds in each pair
C) to explain how sounds differ
D) to communicate sounds in each pair
  • 77. Teacher Aljon adheres to a teaching methodology where the language learners are not allowed to use their mother tongue. Given below are possible teaching methodologies that Teacher Aljon uses. Which is the EXCEPTION?
A) Direct Method
B) Audiolingual Method
C) Silent Way
D) Community Language Learning
  • 78. According to Stephen Krashen's Affective Filter Hypothesis, second language learners with increased ____ have low levels of _____high levels of _____.
A) self confidence, anxiety, affective filters
B) affective filters, anxiety, self - confidence
C) anxiety, affective filters, self-confidence
D) affective filters, self confidence, anxiety
  • 79. Which among the four general orientations of modern second language approaches emphasizes on teaching grammatical and syntactic elements of the second language in isolation?
A) Functional
B) Affective
C) Cognitive
D) Structural
  • 80. The reading approach is primarily executed for the fulfillment of practical and academic objectives. Which among the following does NOT adhere to this approach?
A) Culture is considered the most important aspect in language learning.
B) Widening the vocabulary in the target language is imperative.
C) Development of reading skills is of prime importance.
D) Pronunciation and conversational skills are not emphasized.
  • 81. In the past, grammar was considered solely as ____. This means that it is set to maintain linguistic excellence; as such, it relies on what grammarians believe to be best.
A) Descriptive
B) Prescriptive
C) Transformational
D) Pedagogical
  • 82. Given below are several language teaching principles. Which one does NOT view the language teacher as facilitator of learning?
A) Communicative Language Teaching
B) Silent Way
C) Grammar translation method
D) Natural Approach
  • 83. Which of the following language teaching principles also entails how students' feelings should be dealt with?
A) Suggestopedia
B) Direct method
C) Grammar - translation method
D) Audiolingual method
  • 84. Total Physical Response: Comprehension precedes production; Communicative Language Teaching: _____
A) Vocabulary over grammar
B) Explicit but minimal grammar
C) Function over form
D) Oral before written
  • 85. Teacher Val rarely corrects errors and when she does so, she maintains that it should be unobtrusive. All of the following teaching principles entail doing the same to treat learners' errors EXCEPT
A) Communicative Language Teaching
B) Suggestopedia
C) Grammar - translation method
D) Total Physical Response
  • 86. All of the following are language views accepted by Structuralists. Which is the EXCEPTION?
A) Language is arbitrary.
B) Language is primarily vocal.
C) Language is universal.
D) Language is a system of systems.
  • 87. Behaviorist learning theory: language behavior is conditioned by rewards. _____: all normal human beings have an inborn biological internal mechanism that makes language learning possible.
A) Interactionists Theory
B) Functionalists Theory
C) Transformationalists Theory
D) Cognitive Learning Theory
  • 88. Which of the following teaching methods is a direct implication of the behaviorist learning theory?
A) Think Aloud
B) Communicative Language Teaching
C) Story Grammar
D) Audiolingual Method
  • 89. Cognitive based: Directed Reading Thinking Activity; Humanistic Technique: _____
A) Information Gap Tasks
B) Natural Approach
C) Bottom up Text Processing
D) Community Language Learning
  • 90. Constructivism states that learning is an active, contextualized process of constructing knowledge rather than acquiring it. Which of the following is one of the foundations for constructivism?
A) Classical Conditioning
B) Social Development Theory
C) Experiential Learning
D) Pareto Principle
  • 91. Which of the following is the learning goal of humanism?
A) To develop learners who have innovative and adaptive thinking skills
B) To develop learners' mental ability to use concepts dealing with number, classification, order, and time but use them in a simple way
C) To develop self - actualized individuals in a cooperative and supportive environment
D) To create individuals who learn through mental mechanisms which enable them to recreate and adapt their behavior in different situations
  • 92. Saussure's distinction between langue and parole is basically ____ while Chomsky's is basically psycholinguistic.
A) Applied linguistic
B) Computational linguistics
C) Neurolinguistic
D) Sociolinguistic
  • 93. Which language theory holds that human knowledge develops from structures and processes which are in the mind at birth and are also responsible for how language is learned rather than from the environment?
A) Behaviorism
B) Innatist hypothesis
C) Empiricist theory
D) Mentalism
  • 94. Given below are teaching implications of Piaget's theory on cognitive development. Which is the EXCEPTION?
A) Teachers should encourage learners to interact with their environment as a way to discover themselves.
B) Teachers should focus on accelerating or speeding up children's progress through the stages.
C) Teachers should focus on the process by which learners derive their answers.
D) Teachers approach to executing class activities should be individualized or in small groups rather than whole group.
  • 95. Sensorimotor Period: peek-a-boo; Concrete Operational Period: ____
A) Playdoh
B) Charts and illustrations
C) Simple experiments
D) Letter cut-outs
  • 96. The theories of Piaget and Vygotsky agree on which of the following ideas?
    I. Learners are primarily blank slates.
    II. Learners actively construct their own knowledge.
    III. Social interactions play a key role in knowledge construction.
A) I only
B) II only
C) I and II
D) III only
  • 97. All of the following are teaching implications of Vygotsky's theory of scaffolding. Which is the EXCEPTION?
A) Divide complex tasks into simpler parts.
B) Ask students to develop their own steps.
C) Give frequent feedback.
D) Demonstrate complex tasks.
  • 98. Which of the following is NOT a constructivist teaching scheme?
A) Restructuring ideas
B) Application of new ideas
C) Modelling
D) Elicitation
  • 99. The information processing theory of learning proposed by Ashcraft explains how the mind functions in the learning process. Which of the following is/are NOT TRUE about this theory?
A) It emphasizes on how information is processed in the brain.
B) Both A and B
C) Its three components are sensory register, short term memory, and long term memory.
D) It focuses on how learning takes place.
  • 100. Behavioral learning theories describe learning in terms of observable phenomena. Which of the following is a pedagogical implication of this learning theory?
A) Teacher Maggie arranges her curriculum in such a way that concepts on one level are built on the previous one.
B) Teacher Jelo reinforces learning by giving his students rewards.
C) Teacher Jehrist encourages her students to make their own meaning out of the content.
D) Teacher Shie treats her students in accordance with their level of maturity.
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