Applied Linguistics & Other Topics

In the field of Corpus Linguistics, what does "corpus" refer to?

• Studying the meanings behind the plots of zombie stories.

• A teaching method in which teachers speak and students act out the language with their bodies (i.e., corpus, corpora).

• Using a teaching method that involves repeating after the teacher, along with other types of oral drills.

• A collection (i.e., body) of texts or language.

In this lecture, we discussed the Collins COBUILD Dictionary. It has been described as "revolutionary" because it was created from a corpus. What does this mean? Please choose the best answer from the options below.

• Lexicographers (辞書編集者) made this dictionary based on just what they thought the definitions of words were.

• The definitions in the dictionary are based on the way people actually used the words.

• The dictionary contains no definitions.

• It was the first dictionary that was available for free.

We talked about concordancers in the lecture. What are concordancers? Please choose the best definition from those below.

• Concordancers are tools that will search through (or analyze) texts or corpora, and tell us information such as how many times specific words (collocations, etc.) appear in the text.

• Concordancers are a type of tool that lets us embed questions or notes into YouTube videos.

• Concordancers are groups of scholars who decide if researchers will be allowed to conduct research or not.

True or False:

MICASE (The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) contains examples of language that people (students, graduate students, faculty) at the University of Michigan actually spoke.

• True

• False

True or False:

MICUSP (The Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers) contains ONLY explanations of different types of papers. It has NO actual examples of papers that students wrote.

• True

• False

Which teaching method or approach involves speaking drills such as listen-and-repeat and repeating after the teacher? This teaching method or approach is supported by Behaviorism (a learning theory). (聞いて復唱したり、先生の言うことをそのまま繰り返すなどのスピーキング練習を含む教授法やアプローチはどれですか。この教授法やアプローチは行動主義（学習理論）によってサポートされています。)

• Audiolingual Method

• TPR (Total Physical Response)

• Grammar Translation Method

• Genre approach

The instructor talked about how his university classmates sometimes said that technology is not a panacea in language teaching. What does this mean? Please choose the best answer.

• Technology is always an easy answer for all situations in language education.

• Digital games are often cheap.

• Teachers do not need to think about how or why to use technology in language classes.

• Technology is not an easy answer for all situations in language education.

The previous question mentioned Behaviorism, which is a learning theory. Which of the choices below is another learning theory commonly discussed in language education? This theory was developed by Lev Vygotsky. It focuses on providing scaffolding for learners in their Zones of Proximal Development. (前の質問では、学習理論の一つである行動主義について触れました。以下の選択肢のうち、言語教育でよく議論されるもう一つの学習理論はどれですか？この理論はレフ・ヴィゴツキーによって提唱されました。この理論は、学習者の最近接発達領域において、学習者のための足場を提供することに重点を置いています。)

• Theory of Relativity

• Sociocultural Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Chaos Theory

Which of the three choices below are the three approaches to teaching writing that we discussed in class?

• product, Silent Approach, product

• process, product, genre

• process, TPR, genre

• Audiolingual Method, process, product

In addition to Applied Linguistics, another focus of this course is SLA. What does "SLA" stand for?

• School Learning Associations

• Semiotics, Language, and Assistance

• Second Language Acquisition

• Studying Language Abilities