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1. The communicative interaction is likely
to ---- the abilities within the learner’s
developing competence in an arena of
cooperative negotiation, joint
interpretation, and the sharing of
expression.
A) engage B) maintain C) fluctuate
D) originate E) enquire
2. An important point that must be kept in
mind in foreign language classrooms
is that even in situations where one
might socialize students into a specific
culture as they teach language, it will
likely not be possible to ---- native
classroom conditions in the target
language classroom.
A) ensure B) interfere C) replicate
D) impose E) attend
3. The standard way of examining mental
processes of L2 speakers during
performance of a task is to ---- verbal
reports which might suggest what L2
learners are thinking while they do
language tasks.
A) accomplish B) elicit C) degrade
D) enclose E) exclude
4. Learners’ levels of language
proficiency are usually ---- by scores
on a proficiency test, a placement test
or comprehensive examination
administered by an institution.
A) imposed B) overcome C) progressed
D) assessed E) qualified
5. The human cognitive system is ---- to
look out for relevant information,
which will interact with information
that is already mentally-represented
and bring about positive cognitive
effects based on a combination of the
new and the old information.
A) configured B) rotated C) simplified
D) teared E) uncovered
6. Second language research generally
deals with learners who ---- the
learning of an additional language, at
least some years after they have
started to acquire their first language.
A) carry on B) depend on C) add on
D) draw on E) embark on
7. A recent study claims that the next ten
years are likely to ---- the emergence
of a number of virtual ELT operations
via computerized tools.
A) witness B) track C) survey
D) progress E) obtain
8. The designation of an official language
can ---- a great deal of political tension
that polarizes social attitudes toward
particular languages.
A) object B) foster C) mislead
D) enquire E) enclose

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9. Chomsky's notion of Universal
Grammar developed out of his idea
that all languages ---- a single set of
properties unique to humans.
A) come by B) get by C) abide by
D) pass by E) set by
10. The two main tenets of Chomsky's
view of language are that language is
---- by universal principles and that
these principles are an innate
biological property of humans.
A) covered B) anticipated C) constrained
D) astonished E) distinguished
11. Another aim of language teaching is to
---- exposure outside the classroom,
increasing the amount of input each
learner gets, regardless of the
differences in ability and motivation
among students.
A) facilitate B) fetch C) precede
D) scatter E) spare
12. In the case of language maintenance,
members of a language minority group
work to ---- the maintenance of their
first language.
A) succeed B) signal C) promote
D) reflect E) perform
13. Many studies have been undertaken to
---- the types of grammatical changes
that are occurring in various
multilingual contexts in which English
plays a significant role.
A) obtain B) determine C) guide
D) develop E) challenge
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14. The language-in-education policies in
countries like the United Kingdom ---- a
huge gap between the sociolinguistic
reality of language minority groups
and prevalent pedagogical approaches
to the teaching of English.
A) analyze B) reflect C) clarify
D) distinguish E) employ
15. The questions that present-day
research in second-language
acquisition addresses derive from
theoretical frameworks that ---- a set of
underlying beliefs, assumptions, or
principles.
A) fulfill B) grant C) originates
D) range E) posit
16. Research findings on learner
strategies in reading and writing
classes suggest that teachers need to -
--- their teaching strategies on an
ongoing basis, to determine if they are
promoting effective or ineffective
learning strategies in learners.
A) evaluate B) resemble C) reveal
D) specialize E) progress
17. Although the textbook expects
teachers to use its visual aids to help
students formulate interpretive
schemata for comprehension
passages, such exercises in fact end in
frustration as the attempts of students
are ---- by the cultural difference.
A) introduced B) impressed
C) complicated D) guaranteed
E) explained
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18. The classroom is the primary setting in

which talk-for-language-learning is
carried out, and as such the classroom
---- the norms for proper behavior that
underlie the institutional task of
language teaching.

A) sparks B) treats C) manages

D) demonstrates E) interferes

19. The culture of most classrooms is

often built upon and preserved by a
shared and unspoken assumption that
cooperation to ---- relative harmony on
the surface of lessons between
competing agendas is ultimately easier
for both teacher and learners.

A) maintain B) launch C) mark

D) place E) reproduce

20. Learners selectively work through the

discourse of the classroom not only as
discursive practitioners within the
immediate lesson but also on the basis
of how they ---- which social practices
are appropriate in the particular
classroom group.

A) settle B) perform C) improve

D) count E) judge

Cevap Anahtarı
1–A 6–E 11 – A 16 – A
2–C 7–A 12 – C 17 – C
3–B 8–B 13 – B 18 – D
4–D 9–C 14 – B 19 – A
5–A 10 – C 15 – E 20 – E