English Language Teaching Methodology quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   In a flipped classroom, where do language students watch lectures?

   Answer: at home

   Why: The class time this frees up goes to practice and talk, which is the whole reason the model swaps the two halves of the course round.

2. 2 Medium

   What begins the cycle in Task-Based Language Teaching?

   Answer: pre-task phase

   Why: Jane Willis set the cycle out as this, then the task itself, then a language focus that comes last on purpose.

3. 3 Hard

   In language acquisition, what occurs when errors become permanent?

   Answer: Fossilization

   Why: Selinker coined the term in 1972 for a learner's own system when it stops developing, however much correction and exposure keep arriving.

4. 4 Easy

   Why is learning English in Australia classified as ESL rather than EFL?

   Answer: English is the surrounding community language

   Why: Australian schools have retired the ESL label: the curriculum now says EAL/D, English as an Additional Language or Dialect.

5. 5 Medium

   What multi-word units are central to the Lexical Approach in teaching?

   Answer: chunks

   Why: Michael Lewis argued in 1993 that fluent speech is assembled from ready-made blocks rather than built one word at a time.

6. 6 Hard

   Which minimalist teaching movement forbids the use of published textbooks?

   Answer: Dogme ELT

   Why: Scott Thornbury named it in 2000 after the Danish film movement that stripped cinema back to whatever was already in the room.