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Based on what you have learned in class and read in the recommended writing, briefly

answer the following questions. You can send the file to [email protected] by the end of
March.

1. What areas does the teacher’s professional knowledge involve?


2. Which do you think are the most important factors in the affective domain?
3. How do learning styles differ from learning strategies?
4. How can you describe your own learning style and did it change over the years?
5. Based on what you have read, what are the characteristics of a good language learner?
6. What are learner variables and why is it important to be aware of them?
7. What is the critical period hypothesis significance for foreign language learning?
8. In what classroom situations does mother tongue use contribute to learning and what
situations does it impede learning?
9. How can you make up for insufficient exposure to the target language? (share your own
experience)
10. How do behaviourism and nativism differ in their explanation of first language
acquisition?
11. How do you understand the social nature of language construction?
12. Can you give some examples of scaffolding provided by the teacher to beginner learners
of a language?
13. How can a teacher make sure that the input s/he provides is comprehensible?
14. Which features and practices of Audiolingualism can be traced back to the theories of
behaviourism in psychology and structuralism in linguistics?
15. What is communicative competence and how is it related to the main principles of the
Communicative approach?
16. If you want to have a classroom where you use communicative language teaching
approaches and task based learning, what are some things that as a teacher you should
NOT do?
17. Think of one of the post-method approaches. Will it be suitable for the teaching and
learning context in our schools? How can you adapt it to the needs of a particular class?
18. How does teaching of grammar depend on learners’ variables such as age, proficiency
level and learners’ needs?
19. How does The Lexical Approach differ from the traditional teaching of lexis and
grammar?
20. What are some of the ways of explaining lexical meaning without using translation?
21. What would some appropriate concept checking questions (ccqs) for the sentence It’s
high time you found a job be?
22. Can you think of an appropriate context (situation) for introducing past perfect tense?
23. What is your way of learning vocabulary? Has it always been the same?
24. What are some of the benefits (if any) of the explicit teaching of grammar?
25. Choose a listening activity from a coursebook and explain how you are going to use it in
class.
26. What are some possible ways to sequence the activities in a reading lesson?
27. Explain some of the problems with reading texts aloud in class.
28. How does scaffolding work in developing students’ speaking skills? Give examples of
different scaffolding techniques.
29. Make a list and give examples of communication strategies.
30. Explain the notions of accuracy and fluency and give examples of activities aimed at their
development.
31. What is the difference between product and process approaches to writing?
32. When you give students feedback on their essays, what aspects of their writing would you
address in your comments?
33. Why is it necessary to plan lessons and what are the factors which a teacher needs to take
into account when planning?
34. What does the choice of interaction patterns depend on? Give examples of the link
between activities and interaction patterns.
35. What does teacher’s treatment of mistakes depend on? Give examples of different
treatment of students’ mistakes and explain the teacher’s possible reasons for it.
36. How can a teacher cater for students’ different needs in a large and/ or mixed-proficiency
classes?
37. What types of alternative assessment do you know and what are their advantages?
38. Why is culture called the ‘hidden curriculum’ in foreign language teaching?
39. Give examples of culture-related activities in an English language coursebook.
40. What do you look for when choosing a coursebook?

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