TESOL QUIZ 4 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT RATED A+
Q: What characterizes the post-methods approach? ✔✔ 1. It is based on the
idea that it is impossible to empirically demonstrate the superiority of one specific
method over another.
Q: How does the post-methods approach view the role of the teacher in
materials design? ✔✔ Teachers should have the independence to design situation-
specific materials to achieve language objectives rather than following a rigid, pre-
packaged curriculum.
Q: What is a "principled pragmatist" in the context of the post-methods
approach? ✔✔ It refers to language teachers who shape their students' classroom
learning through informed teaching and critical reflection, adapting their strategies
based on what actually works in their specific environment.
key characteristics of CLT -ANSWER ✔✔1. real world scenarios
2. engaging
3. negotiation for meaning
4. clarification requests
5. collaboration
6. implicit instruction
7. meaning focused
8. maintaining flow
,9. scaffolding
10. cultural relevance
11. authentic community resources
12. incorporates learners experiences
13. lots of output
14. critical thinking
focus on form -ANSWER ✔✔1. Not grammar all the time.
2. Ellis says this is best way to facilitate and promote second language learning.
3. Occurs within a CLT framework. Communication driven. Achieving real-world
tasks while at times giving some grammar instruction that's timely and relevant to
achieve that task in the moment. Grammar instruction just happens
focus on forms -ANSWER ✔✔Systematic structuring of a class based off of
grammatical needs.
focus on meaning -ANSWER ✔✔1. semantic
2. pragmatic
principle #2 -ANSWER ✔✔focus on meaning
1. semantic (lexical meaning)
// can be a language objective
2. pragmatic (social meaning)
// need for focus is divided
principle #3 -ANSWER ✔✔focus on form
, 1. learners need to attend to specific forms
2. refers to form-function mapping (the correlation between a particular form and
the meaning(s) it realizes in communication)
3. intentional and intensive focus on pre-selected linguistic forms
4. incidental and extensive attention to form through corrective feedback in task-
based lessons
principle #6 -ANSWER ✔✔1. Comprehensible input (Krashen)
2. The more exposure learners receive, the more and faster they'll learn
3. Length of residence in the country where the language is spoken is related to
language proficiency
4. The L2 needs to become the medium as well as the object of instruction
5. L2 learners can benefit from both reading and being read to
6. Much L2 learning is incidental rather than intentional, and this requires access to
massive amounts of input
principle #7 -ANSWER ✔✔1. Output (Swain)
2. Production serves to generate better input through the feedback that learners'
efforts at production elicit
3. It forces syntactic processing
4. Helps to automatize existing knowledge
5. Pushed output (output where the learner is stretched to express messages clearly
and explicitly) constitutes one of the main reasons for incorporating tasks into a
language program
principle #8 -ANSWER ✔✔1. Interaction hypothesis (Long)
2. Fosters acquisition when a communication problem arises and learners are
engaged in negotiating for meaning
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT RATED A+
Q: What characterizes the post-methods approach? ✔✔ 1. It is based on the
idea that it is impossible to empirically demonstrate the superiority of one specific
method over another.
Q: How does the post-methods approach view the role of the teacher in
materials design? ✔✔ Teachers should have the independence to design situation-
specific materials to achieve language objectives rather than following a rigid, pre-
packaged curriculum.
Q: What is a "principled pragmatist" in the context of the post-methods
approach? ✔✔ It refers to language teachers who shape their students' classroom
learning through informed teaching and critical reflection, adapting their strategies
based on what actually works in their specific environment.
key characteristics of CLT -ANSWER ✔✔1. real world scenarios
2. engaging
3. negotiation for meaning
4. clarification requests
5. collaboration
6. implicit instruction
7. meaning focused
8. maintaining flow
,9. scaffolding
10. cultural relevance
11. authentic community resources
12. incorporates learners experiences
13. lots of output
14. critical thinking
focus on form -ANSWER ✔✔1. Not grammar all the time.
2. Ellis says this is best way to facilitate and promote second language learning.
3. Occurs within a CLT framework. Communication driven. Achieving real-world
tasks while at times giving some grammar instruction that's timely and relevant to
achieve that task in the moment. Grammar instruction just happens
focus on forms -ANSWER ✔✔Systematic structuring of a class based off of
grammatical needs.
focus on meaning -ANSWER ✔✔1. semantic
2. pragmatic
principle #2 -ANSWER ✔✔focus on meaning
1. semantic (lexical meaning)
// can be a language objective
2. pragmatic (social meaning)
// need for focus is divided
principle #3 -ANSWER ✔✔focus on form
, 1. learners need to attend to specific forms
2. refers to form-function mapping (the correlation between a particular form and
the meaning(s) it realizes in communication)
3. intentional and intensive focus on pre-selected linguistic forms
4. incidental and extensive attention to form through corrective feedback in task-
based lessons
principle #6 -ANSWER ✔✔1. Comprehensible input (Krashen)
2. The more exposure learners receive, the more and faster they'll learn
3. Length of residence in the country where the language is spoken is related to
language proficiency
4. The L2 needs to become the medium as well as the object of instruction
5. L2 learners can benefit from both reading and being read to
6. Much L2 learning is incidental rather than intentional, and this requires access to
massive amounts of input
principle #7 -ANSWER ✔✔1. Output (Swain)
2. Production serves to generate better input through the feedback that learners'
efforts at production elicit
3. It forces syntactic processing
4. Helps to automatize existing knowledge
5. Pushed output (output where the learner is stretched to express messages clearly
and explicitly) constitutes one of the main reasons for incorporating tasks into a
language program
principle #8 -ANSWER ✔✔1. Interaction hypothesis (Long)
2. Fosters acquisition when a communication problem arises and learners are
engaged in negotiating for meaning
