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Prelim Exam in ELT 1
Prelim Exam in ELT 1
Prelim Exam in ELT 1
Altavas, Aklan
S.Y. 2023-2024
babbling at all; utterances have communicative intent and children build increasingly complex sentences that allow them
to better communicate their ideas.
____________________ 33. It is a School of Thought that emphasizes both the learners’ role in constructing meaning out
of available linguistic input and the importance of social interaction in creating a new linguistic system.
____________________ 34. What do you call the school of thought in psychology, proposed by John B. Watson, which
maintains that psychologist should study only observable, measurable behaviors and not internal mental processes?
____________________ 35. It is a branch of constructivism that emphasizes the importance of social interaction and
cooperative learning in constructing both cognitive and emotional images of reality.
____________________ 36. It is defined as a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of
conventionalized signs, symbols, gestures, or marks having understood meanings.
____________________ 37. It is a field of study that investigates how individuals acquire a second language, beyond
their native language.
____________________ 38. This is a nativist theory by Mary Ainsworth which argues that infants have innate need to
form secure and nurturing attachments with their primary caregivers.
____________________ 39. Who is the major proponent of Nativist Theory?
____________________ 40. It is the process of taking in new information into an already existing schema.
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar
Prepared by:
KRISTINE F. CANTILERO, MAT-English
Instructor I
ANSWERS KEY
1. C
2. B
3. B
4. A
5. A
6. B
7. C
8. B
9. A
10. A
11. A
12. C
13. D
14. B
15. A
16. C
17. B
18. C
19. B
20. A
21. Steven Pinker
22. Schema
23. Behaviorism
24. Surface structure
25. Preoperational Stage
26. Jean Piaget
27. 2-word stage
28. Nativist theory
29. Cognitive psychology
30. Formal operational stage
31. Generative Grammar
32. Multi-word Stage
33. Constructivism
34. Methodological behaviorism
35. Social constructivism
36. Language
37. Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
38. Attachment theory
39. Noam Chomsky
40. Assimilation