Principles and

Procedures of
Materials
Development
20 Item Quiz
Test I: Multiple Choices
1. How can language learners
benefit from noticing salient
features of the input?
a. By using an experiential approach in which the
learners are first of all provided with an
experience which engages them holistically.
b. By making sure that the learners are exposed
to sufficient samples of language in authentic use.

c. By prioritizing the potential for engagement.

d. By ensuring opportunities for feedback.

2. All of these are procedures in
Principles of Language Acquisition
6, except?
a. Provide many opportunities for the
learners.
b. Make sure that the output activities are
fully contextualized.
c. Make use of activities which get learners to
visualize and/or use inner speech before
during and after using language themselves.

d. Try to ensure that opportunities for

feedback.
3. What exactly does the
Principle of Language
Acquisition 6 entails?
a. A pre-requisite for language acquisition is
that the learners are exposed to a rich,
meaningful and comprehensible input of
language in use.
b. Learners need opportunities to use
language to try to achieve communicative
purposes.
c. Language learners can benefit from
noticing salient features of the input.

d. None of the above.

4. What is the 4th Principle of
Language Acquisition?
a. Language learners who achieve positive
affect are much more likely to achieve
communicative competence than those who
do not
b. Language learners can benefit from
noticing salient features of the input.
c. L2 language learners can benefit from
using those mental resources which they
typically utilise when acquiring and using
their L1.
d. None of the above.
5. How many principles of language
acquisitions are there?

a. Six

b. Seven

c. Eight

d. Nine
Test II: True or False
 6. To expose learners to a rich,
meaningful and comprehensible
input of language in use, the
material should contain a lot of
spoken and written texts.
True or False?
 7. For the learners to maximize
their exposure to language in use,
they need to be engaged both
effectively and competently in the
language experience.
True or False?
8. Language instructors should make
use of activities which get learners to
visualize and/or use outer speech
before and after experiencing a
written or spoken text.
True or False?
 9. Language learners who achieve
positive affect are much more likely
to achieve communicative
competence than those who do not.
True or False?
10. Language learners cannot benefit
from noticing salient features of the
input.
True or False?
11. No need to make use of activities
which help the learners to reflect on
their mental activity during a task
and then to try to make more use of
mental strategies in a similar task.
True or False?
 12. Use an experiential approach
Rather than drawing the learners’
attention to a particular feature of a
text and then providing explicit
information.
True or False?
13. Make use of activities which get
learners to visualize and/or use
inner speech before during and
after using language themselves.
True or False?
14. Principle of Language Acquisition
2 discusses a pre-requisite for
language acquisition that learners
should be exposed to a rich,
meaningful and comprehensible
input of language in use.
True or False?
15. Principle of Language Acquisition
4 asserts that L2 language learners
can benefit from using those mental
resources which they typically utilise
when acquiring and using their L1.
True or False?
Test III: Matching Type
 SET B
SET A a. In order for the learners to maximize their
exposure to language in use they need to be
engaged both affectively and cognitively in the
16. Principle of Language
Acquisition 1 language experience.
b. Language learners who achieve positive affect
17. Principle of Language are much more likely to achieve communicative
Acquisition 2
competence than those who do not.
18. Principle of Language c. A pre-requisite for language acquisition is that
Acquisition 3 the learners are exposed to a rich, meaningful
and comprehensible input of language in use.
19. Principle of Language
Acquisition 4 d. Language learners can benefit from noticing
salient features of the input.
20. Principle of Language e. L2 language learners can benefit from using
Acquisition 5
those mental resources which they typically
utilise when acquiring and using their L1.
Thank you for
answering!
 ANSWER KEY
True or False
Multiple
Matching Type
Choices 1. True
2. False 1. C
1. A 3. False
2. A
2. C 4. True
5. False 3. B
3. B
6. False 4. E
4. C
7. True 5. D
5. A
8. True
9. False
10. True