TEACHING GRAMMAR

Which term refers to the knowledge of parts of speech, tenses, and syntactic structures used to create grammatically well-formed sentences?

• Text Grammar

• Sentence grammar

• Spoken grammar

• Corpus linguistics

What is "Fluency" in the context of grammatical knowledge?

• The ability to produce discourse free of grammatical errors.

• The restructuring of mental representations to incorporate new forms

• The ability to produce continuous speech without causing comprehension difficulties.

• The use of monitored speech styles to minimize errors.

What is the primary goal of "Focus on Form" in a communicative activity?

• To ignore grammar and focus entirely on the message.

• To provide opportunities for learners to "notice" grammatical features during the task.

• To ensure that every error is corrected immediately by the teacher.

• To prevent students from using any implicit knowledge

What is "Fossilization" in second language acquisition?

• The temporary use of simpler rules to convey messages.

• The process of noticing the gap between one's language and a native speaker's.

• The persistence of grammatical errors in a learner's speech despite progress in other areas.

• The development of automatic processing through practice.

A student says, "I breaked the vase." This is an example of which learner process?

• Overgeneralization

• Simplification

• Underuse

• Language transfer

Which historical approach used grammar-based translation exercises and saw grammatical competence as the primary key to language use?

• Grammar-translation approach

• Communicative Language Teaching

• Task-based teaching

• Audio Lingual

Which approach uses content, tasks, or texts as the framework for instruction, only teaching grammar as it is needed?

• Grammar-last approach

• Deductive approach

• Sentence-grammar approach

• Audiolingual method

Which of the following is a hallmark of a fluency-focused activity?

• It focuses on the formation of correct examples of language.

• It requires the use of language produced for "display" as evidence of learning.

• It requires real communication and allows students to select the language they use.

• It practices small samples of language out of context.