全国2012年1月高等教育自学考试

外语教学法试题

课程代码：00833

I. Multiple Choices: (20%)

Directions: In this section, you are given 20 questions, beneath each of which are four choices marked A, B,C and D. You are to make the best choice either to complete the incomplete statement or to answer the question. One point is given to each correct choice.

1. According to the records available, human beings have been involved in the study of language for ___________ years.

A. 1,000 B. 1,500

C. 2,000 D. 2,500

2. By the mid-_________ the upheaval in linguistics and psycholinguistics created by Chomsky’s transformational-generative grammar had begun to affect language pedagogy.

A. 1940s B. 1950s

C. 1960s D. 1970s

3. The Natural Approach believes that the teaching of _________ should be delayed until comprehension skills are established.

A. listening B. speaking

C. reading D. writing

4. The generative-transformational school of linguistics emerged through the influence of __________ .

A. Noam Chomsky B. J. Piaget

C. D. Ausubel D. J.B. Bruner

5. In foreign language teaching, the target language was interpreted as a system of rules to be observed in texts and sentences, and to be related to the first language __________ and meaning.

A. words B. rules

C. sentences D. context

6. In the 19^th century, the strategy in language teaching usually adopted by foreign language teachers was the _______ of grammar rules with translation.