Applied Linguistics II

5th Semester
Partial Exam

Name: ____________________________________________ Marks:____/24

1. Which ones are the reasons Harmer proposes as part of creating and understanding listening activities. (Microskills)
(1 mark)
□ Listen to engage in social rituals, to exchange information, to exert control, to share feelings, to enjoy yourself.
□ Listen to live conversations, announcements, news item, and weather forecast, following instructions for a task,
attending a lecture, listen to a public announcement.
□ Listen to confirm expectations, to extract specific information, for communicative tasks, for general understanding, to
recognize function, to deduce meaning.

2. Name the three stages for teaching Reading and Listening. (1 mark)

3. What are the two types of Speaking activities we can work with students? (1 mark)

4. In Reading we used different types of text, match the types of material to its description. (3 marks)

A. Adapted readings ________This type of material is intended for native speakers, and has no graduation
for second language learners.

B. Pedagogical readings ________ This type of material is taken from real readings and modified in some
aspects to have an educational purpose.

C. Authentic readings ________ This material is created by editorials and then compiled in textbooks so
learners can make use of them in their learning process.

5. Match each step when teaching process writing to their description. (2 marks)

Editing Drafting Planning Reviewing

__________________________ During this stage you focus on the overall meaning and organization of a text
__________________________ It is when you modify your text, you rearrange, add, eliminate or rewrite content
__________________________ This is a reflection step, you judge what you wrote
__________________________ Here you create an initial composition
6. Which are the three perspectives to teach grammar? ( 3 marks)

_________________________ _____________________________ ____________________________

7. Mark true or false to the following statements. (13 marks)

a) __________Guessing unknown words from context raises the confidence for learners and makes them sensitive to the
range of clues that are available in the language.
b) _________The ultimate role of the teacher is to help students to develop strategies or techniques for learning
vocabulary.
c) _________ When dealing with unknown vocabulary, dictionary is used as a first resort.
d) _________ Warm- up activities are activities used to activate previous knowledge.
e) _________ Pointing to objects, visual aids, antonyms, word-networks and word-cards are some strategies for the
teaching of vocabulary.
f) _________ Cognitive strategies are indirect strategies which actively involve the learner in CONSCIOUS efforts to
remember new words.
g) _________ Krashen started a movement in which he claimed that grammar could be acquired naturally from meaningful
input and opportunities to interact in the classroom rather than from the language form (grammar structures).
h) ________ Ice- breaker activities help to integrate the group and get to know each other.
i) _________ Teachers are supposed to teach grammar as they want without following a criteria or taking background
knowledge into account.
j) _________ The use of metalanguage is useful for beginners
k) _________ Grammar should always be organised and consider that it must be recycled so to make the decisions
properly on what to teach.
l) _________ Consciousness- raising activities help students to reformulate the grammar rules about English through
meaningful negotiation and discovery learning.
m) ________Lead-in activities can work as pre-stage activities for Listening and Reading