Linguistics: Vocabulary Quiz

1. 1. According to the exposition, what are some groups of words which seem to be used like single words?

• Headache and Pancake

• Good morning and at the end of the day.

• Butterfly and rainbow

Answer explanation

True or false?

It is possible to increase the number of high-frequency words that teachers and learners should give attention to by looking at the needs of the learners and making special-purpose vocabulary lists.

• True

• False

There is more than one possible answer, choose wisely:

3. What techniques (strands) can be used when it comes to learning new vocabulary?

• Teaching grammar deductively and inductively

• Learning vocabulary from meaning-focused input (listening and reading)

• Learning vocabulary from meaning-focused output (speaking and writing)

• Deliberate vocabulary learning

• Developing fluency with vocabulary across the four skills

Which one of them is the most suitable for your students?

• Learning vocabulary from meaning-focused input (listening and reading)

• Learning vocabulary from meaning-focused output (speaking and writing)

• Deliberate vocabulary learning

• Developing fluency with vocabulary across the four skills

Answer explanation

Because it uses different approaches to help students to develop fluency. (The first approach relies primarily on repetition, and the second relies on making many connections and associations with known items).

Fill in the blank:

The analysis of the word into parts is considered the first step of the (a)   technique.

Fill in the blank:

Dictionaries can be used ‘receptively’, ‘productively’, and as (a)   .

There is more than one possible answer, choose wisely:

What are some of the purposes of vocabulary tests?

• To measure vocabulary size.

• To measure what has been learned in a course.

• To measure how to punish students.

• To measure what has just been learned.

True or False?

"Vocabulary Size Test requires learners to recall the dorm of words using a sentence cue."

• True

• False

Fill in the blank

The chief characteristic of English vocabulary is that it is (a)   .

Choose the right answer:

What is one of the reasons for the complexity of English vocabulary?

• Various teaching methods

• the ‘lexical bar’ or barrier

• Variety of teaching approaches