Approaches & Methods in ELT

Which of the following is a feature of child centered language classroom?

• Students doing their work silently

• Teacher explaining the concept effectively

• Teacher teaching in mother tongue

• Students interacting in target language

Role play helps in

• Process of imitation

• Evaluation of learnt material

• Development of acting talent

• Improvement in communicative competence

Structural approach advocates

• resorting to fluency

• selection and gradation of material

• assessing learners' performance using mother tongue

• using mother tongue

Here is a list of tasks commonly included in a language classroom. Which of these considers children as active learners?

• Children work in groups to generate interpretation of a poem

• Children carefully memorise correct answers to questions on a poem

• Children write answers to questions given at the end of the poem

• Children carefully note down answers from the blackboard

Which one of the following is the most important pre-requisite for language learning, whether first or second?

• A structural approach

• Content based instruction

• Multilingual approach

• An input-rich communicational environment

Which approach emphasizes interaction as the means and the goal of learning a language?

• Communicative

• Structural

• Direct Method

• Grammar-Translation Methid

The most important aspect of an effective language classroom is to provide learners with an opportunity to

• Imitate

• Interfere

• Interact

• Assess

The communicative approach to teach English focuses on

• The structural accuracy of the sentences

• Correct pronunciation of words

• Linguistic competence plus and ability to use the language appropriately

• The practice of selected and graded structure patterns

Before starting the chapter titled 'Courageous Carrie' the teacher initiates a discussion on courage and what it means for the learners. What is the teacher trying to achieve through this class discussion?

• Make students enthusiastic

• Activate the intellectual stance of the students

• Activate the previous knowledge of students

• Activate students' creativity

The method of teaching a second/foreign language without using the pupil's first language is

• Direct Method

• Grammar Translation Method

• Communicative Language Teaching

• Structural Approach