TEFL PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH TEACHING
PREP QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● It's imperative that you try to find out how your students have
learned previously and how they prefer to learn now.
Answer: True
●● The name for extra letters added to nouns, verbs and adjectives in
their different grammatical forms is:
a. diacritics
b. pitch
c. receptiveness
d. inflexion
Answer: d. inflexion
●● Which of the following is correct?
a. L1 and L2 learners are regularly corrected.
b. L1 and L2 learners learn language differently.
c. L1 and L2 learners are praised to the same degree.
,d. L1 and L2 learn in controlled settings with controlled activities.
Answer: b. L1 and L2 learners learn language differently.
●● The dominant achievement goal of Communicative Language
Teaching is to enable students:
a. to listen in the target language
b. to communicate knowledge and opinions around a topic in the target
language
c. to achieve accuracy in grammar and punctuation in the target language
d. to write well
Answer: b. to communicate knowledge and opinions around a topic in
the target language
●● Less proficient L2 learners use the same range and number of
learning strategies as proficient L2 learners.
Answer: False
●● English has a predictable connection between word sound and word
spelling.
Answer: False
●● In the statement, I put it down to experience, the underlined part is
an example of:
,a. an adjective
b. an adverb
c. an article
d. a phrasal verb
Answer: d. a phrasal verb
●● English is a tonal language.
Answer: False
●● Which of the following is incorrect?
a. There should be more Teacher Talking Time (TTT) than Student
Talking Time (STT).
b. TESOL and TEFL concepts are generally much the same.
c. The 'I do, We do, You do' model is the same as the Presentation,
Practice, Production (PPP) model.
d. TEFL and EFL are perhaps the most common terms.
Answer: a. There should be more Teacher Talking Time (TTT) than
Student Talking Time (STT).
●● L2 is a student's native language.
Answer: False
, ●● Students should always be exposed to fine-tuned input.
Answer: False
●● A learner who has language proficiency in his L1 has a head start
when learning an L2.
Answer: True
●● Functions are speech acts that students are likely to face, e.g. making
a request.
Answer: True
●● Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a broad term for:
a. learner-centred, authentic and meaningful language acquisition
principles
b. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
c. everything in the Teaching English arena
d. teacher-centred, authentic and meaningful language acquisition
principles
Answer: a. learner-centred, authentic and meaningful language
acquisition principles
PREP QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● It's imperative that you try to find out how your students have
learned previously and how they prefer to learn now.
Answer: True
●● The name for extra letters added to nouns, verbs and adjectives in
their different grammatical forms is:
a. diacritics
b. pitch
c. receptiveness
d. inflexion
Answer: d. inflexion
●● Which of the following is correct?
a. L1 and L2 learners are regularly corrected.
b. L1 and L2 learners learn language differently.
c. L1 and L2 learners are praised to the same degree.
,d. L1 and L2 learn in controlled settings with controlled activities.
Answer: b. L1 and L2 learners learn language differently.
●● The dominant achievement goal of Communicative Language
Teaching is to enable students:
a. to listen in the target language
b. to communicate knowledge and opinions around a topic in the target
language
c. to achieve accuracy in grammar and punctuation in the target language
d. to write well
Answer: b. to communicate knowledge and opinions around a topic in
the target language
●● Less proficient L2 learners use the same range and number of
learning strategies as proficient L2 learners.
Answer: False
●● English has a predictable connection between word sound and word
spelling.
Answer: False
●● In the statement, I put it down to experience, the underlined part is
an example of:
,a. an adjective
b. an adverb
c. an article
d. a phrasal verb
Answer: d. a phrasal verb
●● English is a tonal language.
Answer: False
●● Which of the following is incorrect?
a. There should be more Teacher Talking Time (TTT) than Student
Talking Time (STT).
b. TESOL and TEFL concepts are generally much the same.
c. The 'I do, We do, You do' model is the same as the Presentation,
Practice, Production (PPP) model.
d. TEFL and EFL are perhaps the most common terms.
Answer: a. There should be more Teacher Talking Time (TTT) than
Student Talking Time (STT).
●● L2 is a student's native language.
Answer: False
, ●● Students should always be exposed to fine-tuned input.
Answer: False
●● A learner who has language proficiency in his L1 has a head start
when learning an L2.
Answer: True
●● Functions are speech acts that students are likely to face, e.g. making
a request.
Answer: True
●● Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a broad term for:
a. learner-centred, authentic and meaningful language acquisition
principles
b. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
c. everything in the Teaching English arena
d. teacher-centred, authentic and meaningful language acquisition
principles
Answer: a. learner-centred, authentic and meaningful language
acquisition principles
