University of Dhaka: Affiliated Colleges

4th year Honours Examination, 2017

Subject: English
Subject Code: 241119
Subject : Approaches and Methods of Language Teaching
Full Marks–80 Time–4 hours
Part-A
1. Answer any ten questions: 110=10
a) What is LAD?
b) What areas of Languages are emphasized in the Grammar Translation Method (GTM)?
c) What is ‘critical period’ in learning language by children?
d) What are authentic materials?
e) What is dedactive teaching of grammar?
f) What is realia?
g) What is interlanguage?
h) Who introduced the term ‘communicative competence’?
i) What is the Direct Method?
j) What do you mean by acquisition-learning hypothesis?
k) What is skimming?
l) How many phases are there in Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT)? What are they?

Part-B
Answer any five questions: 45=20
2. What is the role of the teacher in the Audio-Lingual Method?
3. What is monitor? What is its role in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)?
4. What is Intensive Reading? How does it differ from Extensive Reading?
5. What are the strategies for developing speaking skills
6. Distinguish between ‘Acquisition’ and ‘Learning’.
7. What are the main techniques of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)?
8. What is contextual approach? How does It affect pedagogy?
9. What are the common techniques used in the Audio-Lingual Method of teaching Language?

Part-C
Answer any five questions 510=50
10. Evaluate the Nativist Theory of Noam Chomsky for language acquisition.
11. Identify and discuss the challenges in implementing CLT in Bangladesh.
12. Discuss the strategic framework proposed by B. Kumaravadivelu.
13. What are the social and psychological factors that play in the Acculturation Model of second
language development?
14. Discuss the Grammar Translation Method focusing on its main characteristics, strength and
weaknesses.
15. What do you know about Desuggestopedia’? Identify the main aspects of it and evaluate their
relavance to the mainstream of Bangladeshi classrooms.
16. What is situational Language Teaching (SLT)? Discuss its approach, design and procedure?
17. Discuss the procedures of the Natural Approach in teaching four skills. What are the four pasie stages
of SLA mentioned in the Natural Approach?
 University of Dhaka Affiliated Colleges
4TH year Honours Examination 2018
Subject: English
Subject code: 241119/1191
Course Title: Approaches and Methods of Language Teaching
Full Marks: 80 Time 4 hours

Part A
1. Answer any ten of the following: 110= 10
a) What is learner autonomy?
b) What is post-method pedagogy?
c) What are the three stages of reading?
d) What is acculturation?
e) What does “tissues rejection refer to”
f) What is reflective teaching?
g) What is critical period hypothesis?
h) Who proposed the theory of innatism?
i) What is affective filter hypothesis?
j) What do you mean by LAD?
k) What is teacher’s role in ICT?
l) Name two famous Linguists.

Part-B
Answer any five questions: 45=20
2. What are the fundamental differences between the Audio-Lingual and Direct Method?
3. What are the main techniques of CLT?
4. What are the roles of teachers and students in the Audio-Lingual Method?
5. What is the teachers’ role in the Direct Method?
6. What are the basic differences between communicative Language Teaching and Grammar Translation
Method?
7. Discuss Vygotsky’s notion of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)?
8. Discuss briefly the structural functional and international views of language.
9. Distinguish between ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ reading.

Part-C
Answer any five questions: 105=50
10. Discuss and evaluate the five hypotheses of Krashen’s Monitor Model theory.
11. Discuss the main techniques or classroom activities in the “Content Language”?
12. Evaluate the role of the Reform Movement in he history of English Language Teaching focusing on
 the principles of Reform Movement.
13. What is Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT)? Discuss the theoretical principles and stages of
TBLT.
14. What are the goals and principles of the audio-Lingual Method? Discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of this method.
15. Elucidate the limitation of using CLT for language teaching in Bangladesh. Suggest three solutions.
16. Make a comparative study of the Behaviourist theory and the Mentalist theory of L1 acquisition.
17. Discuss the procedures of the Natural Approach in teaching the four skills. What are the four basic
stages of SLA mentioned in the Natural Approach?