TESOL Specialization Test

What might be the reason for an Arabic-speaking student saying: "She good teacher"?

• There are no perfect tenses in Arabic that are used after a pronoun.

• In Arabic, the verb "to be" is not used with nouns.

• The verb "to be" in the present tense in Arabic is used differently.

• In Arabic, the verb "to be" is not used before an adjective.

At the end of the course, the teacher gave the students a test on what they had covered. This assessment is known as a/an __________.

• achievement test

• progress test

• proficiency test

• placement test

Which is the correct IPA transcription for the word Fat?

• /'fæt/

• /'fi:t/

• /'fɪt/

• /'feɪt/

A reading test has a text on the topic of memory. One of the questions from the text is shown below. What is wrong with this question?

• There is obviously more than one correct answer.

• The question can be answered without reading the text.

• The vocabulary is too complex for students to answer easily.

• Not enough context is provided for the students to answer the question.

Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, stylistics, discourse analysis, computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and applied linguistics are known as __________.

• Comparative linguistics

• Micro-linguistics

• Mini-linguistics

• Macro-linguistics

Identify the type of error made by the learner in the sentence below: The nice place in Al Ain Al Mubazzarah.

• missing verb

• missing subject

• subject-verb agreement

• count/non-count

Identify the grammatical structure or part of speech of the underlined word(s) below: She really enjoys swimming at the beach, but her sisters don’t.

• Personal pronoun

• Possessive pronoun

• Indefinite pronoun

• Interrogative pronoun

How many total hours of study is it usually estimated a new learner will need to reach CEFR level B2?

• 300-400

• 500-600

• 700-800

• 900-1000

The teacher shows the children a picture of a caterpillar. She wants to work on phoneme identification, so she says, “______”

• What’s the first sound in caterpillar?

• Repeat after me, caterpillar.

• Who can write caterpillar on the board?

• Does caterpillar start with an /θ/, /s/, or /k/ sound?

The teacher asks the learners to look at a picture in a book and guess what the story will be about. The teacher is using a _____ strategy.

• top-down

• bottom-up

• close reading

• think aloud