Foundations of Linguistics in EFL

Teacher's beliefs may include perceptions about...

• The students

• Self-learning

• Teaching practices

• Knowledge

How are teachers to evaluate the potential effectiveness of different instructional practices?

• Assessing the period when they were proposed

• Considering their own successful and difficult experiences

• Considering the names of the authors who created the strategies

• Considering their knowledge about theories of learning

Getting familiar with theories of learning can help teachers

• Understand their students' needs and abilities

• Develop effective instructional strategies

• Know specific information like the most important names in the field

According to Krashen, language acquisition...

• is subconscious with no error correction

• is subconscious with great focus placed on error correction

• is conscious with a great focus place on error correction

Exposure to the L2 is the best predictor of successful language learning

• True

• False

Babies can produce ____ words when they are 12 months.

• 1-2

• 2-3

• 3-4

One important milestone of L1 learning in childhood is

• producing telegraphic sentences

• producing child directed speech

• fossilising new features of the language

Developmental sequence refers to...

• the simplified language that some native

  speakers address L2 learners

• activities in which students develop new features of the language

• the order in which certain features of a language

  are acquired in language learning

Evidence showing that behaviorism didn't provide a strong explanation for language learning is...

• the Wug Test

• developmental sequences

• the acquisition of complex grammar structures

The proposal that for reasons of biological maturation, language acquisition becomes more difficult after a certain age is called...

• Contrastive Analysis

• CPH

• Affective Filter