ALM vs CLT

Choose all that are correct: If we both know today is Tuesday, and I ask you, ‘What is today?’ and you answer, ‘Tuesday,’

• this is a display question

• this is a communicative exchange

• the speaker has no choice, so the exchange is not communicative

• this is an information gap activity

Which of these forms accomplish the function of making a prediction?

• It may rain.

• Perhaps it will rain.

Which of the following statements is true in CLT in relation to authentic materials?

• It is important that the materials be genuine

• It is important that materials be used authentically, with a communicative intent.

Which of these features should games have to provide communicative practice?

• information gap

• choice

• feedback

Which of these statements is true of CLT

• methodologists emphasize the acquisition of linguistic structures or vocabulary

• students must master the functions or purposes to which it is put before they will be able to truly use the language

Select all the statements that characterize CLM.

• Key items are: phonology, morphology, syntax.

• Functional, notional and interactional syllabus.

• Modelling and drilling are central.

• There is a lot of learner-centered interaction.

• Learners respond to linguistic stimuli and the teacher directs the learning process.

Which of the techniques below follows from the principles of the Audio-Lingual Method, and which ones do not?

• The teacher asks beginning-level students to write a composition about the system of transportation in their home countries. If they need a vocabulary word that they do not know, they are told to look in a bilingual dictionary for a translation.

• Toward the end of the third week of the course, the teacher gives students a reading passage. The teacher asks the students to read the passage and to answer certain questions based upon it. The passage contains words and structures introduced during the first three weeks of the course.

• The teacher tells the students that they must add an 's' to third person singular verbs in the present tense in English. She then gives the students a list of verbs and asks them to change the verbs into the third person singular present tense form.

Some people believe that knowledge of a first and second language can be helpful to learners who are trying to learn a third language. What would an Audio-Lingual teacher say about this? Why?

Explain in your own words the following three features of communication: information gap, choice, feedback.

There are a variety of forms for the function of making introductions. Which would you teach to a beginning class?

• Roger, this is (my friend) Paula.

• I would like you to meet Paula.

• Let me present Paula to you.

• Roger, meet Paula.

• Allow me to introduce Paula.