浙江省2003年1月高等教育自学考试外语教学法试题
课程代码：00833

一、判断正误题(每小题1分，共10分)
The following statements are about the facts presented in the first chapter of the book. Please indicate in the brackets after the statements whether they are true (T) or false (F) (10%).
1.The Naturalists and the Conventionalists disagreed with each other in the 5th century. The former argued that forms of words reflected the nature of objects, while the latter held that there was no logic between form and meaning of words. (     )
2.The forerunners of American structuralism are Noam Chomsky and Edward Sapir. (     )
3.Bloomfield, the American linguist, maintained that linguists should prescribe instead of describe what people say. (     )
4.For Chomsky, linguistic competence refers to the internalized knowledge of the language that a native speaker of that language possesses. (     )
5.The analogists claimed that language in general was regular and there were rules for people to  follow. (     )
6.The functional linguistics develops directly from the London School of Linguists with Malinowski as its forerunner.(     )
7.Michael Halliday claimed that language has formal meaning and contextual meaning. (     )
8.The most important factor that has made cognitive psychology the dominant approach in the world is the development of the computer technology. (     )
9.According to the behavioral psychology, children acquire schemas and concepts by interacting with their environment with the help of two processes. (     )
10.In the 5th century, the controversy between the naturalists and the conventionalists in Greece  was on the regularities of language. (     )

二、填空题(每小题1分，共14分)
Ⅰ.Fill in the blanks so as to complete the descriptions of different theories of language learning (7%).
1.The theory of learning underlying the Grammar-Translation Method was ______ Psychology.
2.An ultimate purpose of learning a foreign language in a Grammar-Translation classroom is to enable the learners to read and translate its ______.
3.M. D. Berlitz, a reformer in language teaching, established the first Berlitz school in the U.S..The method he used belonged to the school of ______.
4.The behaviorist ______ theory is behind the Oral Approach/Situational Language Teaching.
5.Piaget's theory of cognitive development holds that the child achieves his conceptual growth through the process of assimilation and ______.
6.The formula i+1 put forward by ______ means input that contains structures slightly above the learner's present level.
7.The Cognitive Approach seeks in ______ Grammar and cognitive psychology a basis for language teaching.
Ⅱ.The following are brief descriptions of seven important methods of foreign language teaching. Give the correct name to each description.(7%)
1.______ Students use the language a great deal through communicative activities like games, role-play, and problem-solving tasks where the focus is on meaning rather than on language form.
2.______ Input is the most important element of any language teaching program.
3.______ The hallmark of this teaching method is emphasis on presentation of the language in its spoken form first.
4.______ It uses the dialogues as the chief means of presenting the language as dialogues provide a natural context for the language form.
5.______ It concentrates on the learner's processes of knowing rather than on mechanistic procedures imposed upon him by the teacher.
6.______ The sentence is the basic unit of language teaching.
7.______ Students do a lot of choral imitation in large groups. They repeat what the teacher has said.

三、选择题(每小题1分，共10分)
Each question in this section consists of an incomplete statement and four choices marked A, B, C and D. You are to complete each statement by choosing the most appropriate one from the given choices and then put the letter of your choice in the bracket before the statement. (10%)
(     )1.The principal practice for the Grammar-Translation is_____.
  A.translation from and into the target language
  B.listening and speaking
  C.writing and reading
  D. communication with the teacher
(     )2.According to behaviorists, learning a second language means the formation of a new set of ____.
A. grammatical rules            B. linguistic habits
C. vocabulary                  D. linguistic competence
(     )3.One of the following is not the forerunner of American structuralists.   A. Franz Boas                B. Edward Sapir
  C. Leonard Bloomfield         D. John B. Watson
(     )4.Structural linguistics views language as a system of structurally related elements. They include:
  A. phonemes and morphemes        B. words and structures
  C. sentence types                  D. all of the above
(     )5.Which one of the following approaches is teacher-oriented?
  A. Audiolingual Approach.          B. The Direct Method.
  C. The Cognitive Approach.         D. The Communicative Approach.
(     ) 6.The Direct Method was developed in the 19th century as a reaction against ______.
  A. the Oral Approach
  B. the Natural Method
  C. the Grammar-Translation Method
  D. the Audiolingual Method
(     )7.“Language is speech, not writing" is a principle of ______.
  A. Communicative Approach          B. Oral Method
  C. Cognitive Approach              D. Audiolingual Method

(     )8.The Oral Approach originated in ______.
  A. Australia             B. America
  C. Britain               D. China
(     )9.The way to make students as relaxed and comfortable as possible and to provide easy chairs, soft lighting and music belongs to ______.
  A. the Silent Way                   B. Suggestopaedia
  C. Community Language Learning      D. Total Physical Response
(     )10.The revolution in linguistic theory in the 1960s refers to the appearance of the ______.
  A. Structuralist theory                    B. Communicative linguistics
  C. Transformational-Generative Grammar     D. Habit-formation theory

四、配对题(每小题1分，共16分)
Ⅰ.The following are theories of language. Decide if they support the Communicative Approach, the Direct Method, the Audiolingual Method, the Cognitive Approach, the Grammar-Translation Method, the Natural Approach or the Oral Approach (6%).
1.Believers of the method lay emphasis on "meaningful learning" and hold that meaning is understood not as behavioral response, but as a clearly articulated experience.
2.In foreign language teaching the target language was primarily interpreted as a system of rules to be observed in texts and sentences.
3.Language is primarily what is spoken and only secondarily what is written. This view offers the foundation for this teaching approach.
4.Language has the property of creativity: with the general grammatical rules it is possible to create an infinite number of sentences in any language.
5.This approach employs situations for presenting new sentence patterns and drill-based manner of practicing them.
6.The underlying theory of language was derived from structural linguistics with Bloomfield and Fries as its representatives.
1.__________           2.__________
3.__________           4.__________
5.__________           6.__________
Ⅱ.Decide which technique(s) is (are) most often used by what method (10%).
1.Maximum use is made of the classroom situation and students engage in such activities as opening and closing doors and windows, naming objects, and counting their fingers.
2.Commands to direct behavior.
3.Correct pronunciation and grammar are emphasized. Students are not allowed to make mistakes.
4.Use of task-based materials and relia.
5.Use dictation to reinforce and test what the students have learned.
6.The employment of situations for presenting new sentence patterns and drill-based manner of practicing them.
7.Use expansion drills to help students to produce longer sentences bit by bit.
8.It is also called a modern version of Grammar Translation Method.
9.Use task-based and authentic materials
10. Use choral imitation
a.Grammar-Translation ______
b.The Natural Approach ______
c.The Cognitive Approach ______
d.The Direct Method ______
e.The Communicative Approach ______
f.The Audiolingual Method ______
g.The Oral Approach ______

五、简答题(每小题6分，共30分)
Answer the following questions (30%)
1.What are the main features of the Cognitive Approach?
2.What is a Total Physical Response classroom like?
3.What is the general aim of the Communicative Approach?
4.What are the main advantages of the Grammar-Translation Method?
5.What are the two major theories behind the Audiolingual Method? (Please briefly explain).

六、论述题（每小题10分，共20分）
1.What is the relationship between linguistics and language teaching?
2.What do you think are the prerequisite qualities that a modern language teacher should possess?