TESOL Methodology

英語教學法 (Spring 2001)

Midterm-Exam

Your Name: _______________________       Student ID No.:____________________

 

1.      It has been said that the Grammar-Translation Method teaches students about the target language, but not how to use it. Explain the difference in your own words. (10%)

2.      What are some characteristics of the teaching/learning process for the Direct Method? (10%)

3.      What are the goals of teachers who use the Silent Way? (10%)

4.      What are the goals of teachers who use Desuggestopedia? (10%)

5.      How are the feeling of the students dealt with in the Community Language Learning approach? (10%)

6.      In Total Physical Response, what areas of language are emphasized? What language skills are emphasized? (10%)

7.      What does it mean to say that the linguistic forms a speaker uses should be appropriate to the social context? (esp. for Communicative Language Teaching) (10%)

8.      Which of the following techniques follows from the principles of the Audio-Lingual Method, and which ones don’t? Explain the reasons for your answers. (30%)

a、     The teacher asks beginning-level students to write a composition about the system of transportation in their home countries.  If they need a vocabulary word that they don’t know, they are told to look in a bilingual dictionary for a translation.

b、    Toward the end of the third week of the course, the teacher gives students a reading passage. The teacher asks the students to read the passage and to answer certain questions based upon it. The passage contains words and structures introduced during the first three weeks of the course.

c、     The teacher tells the students that they must add an “s” to third person singular verbs in the present tense in English. She then gives the students a list of verbs and asks them to change the verbs into the third person singular present tense form.