Principles of Language Teaching Quiz

Which principle states that a language course should provide the best possible coverage of language in use through the inclusion of items that occur frequently in the language?

• Frequency

• Strategies and autonomy

• Spaced retrieval

• Language system

According to the principles, a language course should train learners in how to learn a language and how to monitor and be aware of their learning. Which principle is this?

• Frequency

• Strategies and autonomy

• Spaced retrieval

• Language system

Which principle suggests that learners should have increasingly spaced, repeated opportunities to retrieve and give attention to wanted items in a variety of contexts?

• Frequency

• Strategies and autonomy

• Spaced retrieval

• Language system

The language focus of a course needs to be on the generalizable features of the language. Which principle is this?

• Frequency

• Strategies and autonomy

• Spaced retrieval

• Language system

Which principle states that a language course should cover useful language items, skills, and strategies?

• Keep moving forward

• Teachability

• Learning burden

• Interference

According to the principles, the teaching of language items should take the most favorable sequencing of these items and should take account of when the learners are ready to learn them. Which principle is this?

• Keep moving forward

• Teachability

• Learning burden

• Interference

Which principle suggests that the course should help learners make the most effective use of previous knowledge?

• Keep moving forward

• Teachability

• Learning burden

• Interference

The items in a language course should be sequenced so that items which are learned together have a positive effect on each other for learning and so that interference effects are avoided. Which principle is this?

• Keep moving forward

• Teachability

• Learning burden

• Interference

According to the principles, a language course should provide activities aimed at increasing the fluency with which learners can use the language they already know, both receptively and productively. Which principle is this?

• Motivation

• Four strands

• Comprehensible input

• Fluency

Which principle suggests that learners should be pushed to produce the language in both speaking and writing over a range of discourse types?

• Motivation

• Four strands

• Comprehensible input

• Fluency