FINAL TEST - LITERATURE AND CULTURE - SEM 2 2425

What does Byram (1989) argue is a key benefit of integrating culture into EFL education?

• It reduces the need for grammatical instruction

• It enhances interpretive skills for understanding different cultural behaviors

• It allows students to avoid cultural stereotypes altogether

Which critique is associated with teaching Big C culture?

• It neglects formal aspects of language acquisition

• It promotes outdated and elitist views of Western culture

• It ignores literary heritage and canonical texts

What is a central concern with Little c culture instruction according to Risager (2006)?

• It overemphasizes linguistic accuracy

• It fails to acknowledge the evolving nature of culture

• It overlooks the role of teacher identity

Which author emphasized symbolic competence as a key educational goal?

• Hall

• Kramsch

• Hines

According to Kumaravadivelu (2008), postmodern cultural instruction should focus on:

• Grammatical accuracy and native speaker norms

• Cultural products like music and food

• Identity, power, and ideological meanings

Why is the use of fairy tales considered effective for teaching grammar in the EFL classroom?

• Their plots are linguistically complex

• Their familiar structures facilitate grammar contextualization

• Their themes often align with textbook units

Which of the following is a benefit of visual storytelling in children’s literature?

• It simplifies narrative structure

• It supports decoding skills through multimodal input

• It eliminates the need for guided reading

What does Pedersen (1995) highlight as a benefit of storytelling in ESL?

• It helps students memorize vocabulary lists

• It enhances rhetorical structure understanding

• It limits spontaneous oral interaction

Which of the following is a defining feature of the Reader Response Approach?

• Central focus on teacher-led grammatical instruction

• Emphasis on student interpretations and emotional reactions

• Avoidance of personal engagement with texts

What is one of the goals of the Critical Literary Approach?

• To prioritize accuracy in syntactic parsing

• To uncover underlying power dynamics and ideologies in texts

• To categorize vocabulary into lexical fields