Education Canada College

THEORY SECTION EVALUATION- TESOL

1. Explain the following terms: (10%)

 ESL:___________________________________________

 French as a Second Language: _________________________

 FSL:______________________________________

 TESOL: ______________________________________

 EFL:___________________________________________

2. Explain the following methods and 3 of their differences, advantages & disadvantages:
(10%)

 Grammar Translation Method:

 The Direct Approach Method:

 Audio-lingual Method:

 Notional Functional syllabuses Method:

 The Communicative Approach (CLT):

3. If 26 years old “Singer & Song Writer” Sarah is learning English in Dubai to join an Irish band
in Dublin and make an album, what difficulties in accent, vocabularies, and grammar she might
experience in Dubai and how different is Irish accent to British or American accent? (Explain in
less than five lines)

4. Explain three common ways of physical arrangements of the class, and which one is more
appropriate for the ages of 8-12 years old? (5%)

5. When making a lesson plan, which one of the following orders shall be respected? (5%)
A) Enabling Objectives – Terminal Objective – Evaluation – Homework.
B) Terminal Objective – Goal – Enabling Objective – Evaluation.
C) Goal – Terminal Objective – Enabling Objectives – Evaluation – Homework.

6. Considering the listening skills, describe each status below: (10%)

 Clustering:
 Redundancy:
 Intensive:
 Interactive:
 Selective:
 Top down technique:

7. What is the best way of self-accent correction for a student (by himself or herself) who is
trying to correct his/ her English accent as a foreign speaker? (5%)
8. What is the best method of accent correction of the students by the teacher in your
opinion? Explain. (5%)

9. Explain differences of reading out loud and reading the advantages and disadvantages
silently? (5%)

10. What is transactional classroom speaking? (5%)

11. What are the differences between vocational and display writing? (5%)

12. Outline the drafts method of writing skills: (10%)

13. What method is commonly used in, The “New Interchanges” by Cambridge Publishers
and in your own English teaching skills? (5%)
14. When researching online to provide English learning exercises to your students and to
find teachers resources, what are the three most important “open source” English Learning
Web Sites? (5%)

15. When teaching conversation workshops, in your opinion, what would be the best way of
dealing with the following situation? (10%)

 You have three students, a girl from Mexico 14 years old, a girl from Japan 16
years old and a man from Brazil 25 years old. Two of your students have the
same level (lower intermediate), but one of them, the Japanese student, is at a
lower level.

16) How would you deal with the level problem if the option of a group change or
level change is not available?

17) What method would you use most for their age differences and would you be
able to place them in one class?

18) How different will be your English teaching directions from one student to the
other considering the differences in their age, gender, and most of all their native
language grammar, accent and pronunciation differences?

19) Question 18, if they are all placed in once class, and teaching class is in Mexico
City?

20) Question 18, if they are all taking private individual classes, and they are all
studying in Texas and not in Mexico?

(Bonus Question)

21. How would you motivate your students when you have to create a non-competitive
environment in a classroom of 15 years old students all from Brazil? (5%)