What should teachers take into consideration when identifying students’learning difficulties and needs?
(A) parental expectation
(B) socioeconomic background
(C) both a and b
(D) none of the above

Which can better meet teachers’ purpose when the focus of the course is on real language use? (A) A variety of linguistic forms are presented together for recitation. (B) Students put the scrambled sentences of the newspaper article in right order. (C) Substitution drills. (D) Students retell a story in different words.

What is the most important about cooperative learning? (A) Put students in groups in their preference. (B) Students’score will depend on group results. (C) Teachers teach students collaborative or social skills so that they can work together more effectively. (D) Students also work out tests in groups.

What is the ultimate goal of a balanced literacy program? (A) Students learn to use reading and writing as learning tools to get things done in their life or for pleasure. (B) Through reading and writing, students construct meaning. (C) To develop lifelong readers and writers. (D) All of the above.

What can be characterized as good listeners or readers? (A) They understand every word they hear or read. (B) They are able to predict and the predictions will change as they receive more information from the text. (C) They are more willing to mimic what they hear or read. (D) They tend to respond to what they hear or read.

Which takes a learner-centered approach to language teaching? (A) Teacher is the expert and the most important model for students. (B) Students should be placed in different ability groups for their own benefits. (C) Learners will bring to the learning situation different beliefs and attitudes needed to be taken into consideration in the selection of content. (D) Students’errors should be tolerated and seen as a natural outcome of the development of communication skills.

Which statement is more positive? (A) At-risk students should receive a watered-down curriculum that emphasizes the acquisition of basic academic skills. (B) High expectations are being recognized as key to the success of all students, especially those at risk. (C) Traditional skills-oriented practices for at-risk students is more effective than meaning-oriented instruction in producing authentic and practical learning. (D) Learning is skills-based and sequential and students need slow, deliberate, skills-based instruction.

Which statement is not the current communicative views on language pedagogy? (A) Communication is an integrated process rather than a set of discrete learning outcomes. (B) Teaching is decided with reference to learners’ real communicative needs in actual situations. (C) Decrease direct instruction and high-structure tasks, and more time will be devoted to low-structure tasks. (D) Drills of various kinds have no place in the language classrooms.

How can classrooms act as a bridge to the outside world rather than as a linguistic quarantine station where learners are protected from the risk of engaging in genuine communication? (A) Learners are given opportunities to recombine familiar elements into new and previously unrehearsed forms. (B) Learners need to reproduce language. (C) Tasks give learners practice in responding to other learners and their teachers. (D) Tasks allow learners to practice identifying the key grammar and vocabulary for developing the four language skills.

What is true about assessment? (A) A good assessment is when it serves the objectives of teaching. (B) Paper and pencil tests are not good ways of assessment. (C) It is not fair for students to assess themselves. (D) It decreases students’ motivation by making assessment a part of the continuous learning process.

What type is the monthly paper-pencil exam? (A) formative assessment (B) evaluative assessment (C) summative assessment (D) diagnostic assessment