Sumulong College of Arts and Sciences

Antipoloy, City

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
IN
Teaching and Assessment of Grammar

Name: ____________________________ Year&Sec: __________ Score______ Date: _______

I. Multiple Choice
Directions: Encircle the letter of the best answer. Write an explanation why you chose such
answer. (2pts each)

1. Social constructivism emphasizes the importance of social interaction and cooperative learning
in constructing both __________________ images of reality.
a. cognitive and emotional
b. cognitive and imaginary
c. cognitive and real
d. cognitive and moving
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2. He was trying to show is that language (not language) cannot be scrutinized simply in terms of
observable stimuli and responses or the volumes of raw data gathered by field linguistic.
a. Chomsky
b. Piaget
c. Skinner
d. Vygotsky
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3. Albert Marckwardt saw "changing winds and shifting sands" as a cyclical pattern in which a
new paradigm of teaching methodology emerged about every quarter of a century. One of the
best examples of the cyclical nature of methods is seen in the revolutionary _____________ of
the late 1940s and 1950s.
a. Grammar Translation Methods
b. Audiolingual Methods
c. Language teaching methods
d. Rational approach
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4. ____________ is "acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience,
or instruction.”
a. Teaching
b. Listening
c. Learning
d. Preaching
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 5. Jerome Bruner (1966b:40-41) noted that a theory of instruction should specify the following
features excepts:
a. How a body of knowledge should be structured so that it can be most readily grasped by the learner
b. The most effective sequences in which to present the materials to be learned
c. Nature and pacing rewards and punishments in the process of learning and teaching.
d. Learning is relatively permanent but subject to forgetting.
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II. Essay
Directions: Answer the following briefly but comprehensively. (10pts each)

1. Discuss the difference between Audio Lingual Method and Grammar Translation
Method.

2. What is learning and what is teaching and how do they interact?

3. Discuss at least two theories of language acquisition.

4. Explain “To teach L2 the teacher needs to "understand the nature of language, the fact
of language varieties - social, regional, and functional, the structure and development of
the English language system".
5. What is the importance of background to language teaching in writing grammar
assessment?
6. How does grammar assessment would improve language learning?
7. Choose two principle of direct method in teaching English and explain each.

Prepared by: Recommending Approval: Approved by:

Mr. Reňer G. Aquino Mrs. Jenfer I. Veloria Mrs. Marlyn M. Aquino
College Instructor Program Head College Dean