Pre- Assessment

120-HR TESOL Certification Course

Directions: This test determines your entry point as you embark on your 120-HR TESOL certification
studies. Write the correct answer on the blank before each number. You may refer to the
choices inside the box that have been set as your guide.

International Innateness Audio-Lingual Affective NeuroELT

Phonetic Alphabet Method Humanistic
TESOL Direct Approach Top-Down Pitch
Noticing
Processing
Hypothesis
Acquisition Communicative Presentation Pronunciation Lesson Plan
Language Practice
Teaching Production
Affective Filter Diction Task-based Juncture Phonics
Language
Teaching
Silent Method Natural Approach Stress Comprehension Blended Learning
Bottoms-Up Intonation Fluency Schema Suggestopedia
Processing

1 It refers to the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages

who do not have English as their main and only language
2 Each human being has a language faculty in the brain that is
responsible to child’s mastery of a language.
3 A subconscious process of constructing the system of a language.
4 It is easier for the learner to acquire a language when he/she is
relaxed and interested.
5 It is defined as the mental registering of an event which refers to the
language learners’ consciousness of grammatical forms.
6 A method for teaching ESL and EFL that refrains from using
learner’s first language.
7 Language is a vehicle to communicate. The goal of language learning
is communicative competence.
8 Method of language teaching which firmly believed that language can
be learned through mimicry and memorization.
9 This approach believes that learning is an emotional experience. The
primary function of a teacher is a learning facilitator. Classroom
environment is more important than method.
10 Also known as the comprehension-based approach which emphasizes
on an initial delay in the production of a language. It focuses on
exposure to contextual input.
11 It started using color rods as guides where the teacher mimes
sentences or instruction.
12 Developed by George Lozanov in 1970s, this method suggests the use
of music to condition physical surrounding.
13 An approach to teaching ESL and EFL that seeks to engage learners
in an interactional authentic language use by having them perform
several tasks.
14 A variation of Audiolingualism where the teacher introduces a
situation to practice and then reinforces language using accurate
reproduction techniques.
15 The intersection of neuroscience and English Language Teaching
(ELT). It provides discussions based on scientific inquiry that gives
greater understanding of the roles of the brain in language learning.
16 The common sense model used to describe the decoding of a
language that starts from the parts to the whole, surface to deep
structure or from text to reader’s response.
17 The transactional model where learners start from the activation and
application of prior knowledge before working on the meaning and
vocabulary of a text.
18 The speaker’s or writer’s distinctive choice of words, vocabulary or
register
19 The correctness of sound and accent with which words are uttered.
20 A system of phonetic notation based on Latin alphabet. It is devised
as a standardized representation of the sounds of a spoken language.
21 The relative prominence, force or weight of a certain syllable or word.
22 The highness or lowness of voice in speech utterance.
23 The verbal punctuations in producing a language in order to be
understood.
24 The melody of sounds which refers to the falling and rising patterns.
25 It is a skeletal framework of a lesson. It serves as a teacher’s blueprint
to achieve learning targets.
26 The ability to read words accurately, quickly and with expression.
27 It is all about extracting meaning as well as creating it.
28 It means the correspondence between letters and sounds.
29 The term used to describe how people, in general, organize and store
information. Its mechanism allows people to access what they
already know and match it to the new information being learned.
30 An integrated approach to teaching and learning that includes
models of instruction and student practice such as face-face
interaction, virtual classroom, and collaboration, self-paced study,
streaming video, audio and text to accomplish an educational goal.

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