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Materials Development for Language Tearning and Teaching Quiz
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1What type of materials are possible to create through materials development?
- ABooklets, guides, exercises, evaluation and diagnoses.
- BInformatives, instructionals, experientials, elicitings and exploratories.
- CBooks, portfolios, literature, journals and illustrations.
- DInformatives, instructionals, illustratives, evaluators and exploratories.
- ABooklets, guides, exercises, evaluation and diagnoses.
2Who provided a very detailed checklist of evaluation criteria ‘for evaluating teaching material’?
- ACandlin & Breen (1980).
- BBreen & Candlin (1987).
- CRivers (1981).
- DCunningsworth (1984).
- ACandlin & Breen (1980).
3the introduction to [blank_start]English Access Teacher’s Resource 1[blank_end]says that the pedagogic framework ‘begins with the [blank_start]receptive skills[blank_end] to tap students’ prior knowledge and to trigger connections with their world view. The teacher then supports and provides [blank_start]scaffolding[blank_end] for the students to put their [blank_start]productive skills[blank_end] to use, working slowly in groups towards independent work’
- AEnglish Access Teacher’s Resource 1
- Breceptive skills
- Cscaffolding
- Dproductive skills
4There have also been a number of studies of [blank_start]teacher attitudes[blank_end] towards their coursebooks which suggest that how they use their [blank_start]coursebook[blank_end] depends both on their experience and their view of the coursebook’s value in their [blank_start]teaching context[blank_end].
- Ateacher attitudes
- Bcoursebook
- Cteaching context
5Tomlinson in 2003 differentiates between universal and local criteria, the former being those that can be used to evaluate materials for any learner anywhere.
- ATrue
- BFalse
6Tomlinson & Nunan in 2004 aimed ‘to help teachers to follow learning approaches upon their colleagues' practices and identify mistakes and problems for materials adaptation'
- ATrue
- BFalse
7[blank_start]Teachers[blank_end] also seem to be more constructively critical of their coursebooks and to be more willing, confident and able to localise and personalise their [blank_start]coursebooks[blank_end] for their learners. This is especially so in regions where teachers have been trained as materials developers, either on teacher [blank_start]development[blank_end] courses or on national or institutional materials development [blank_start]projects[blank_end].
- ATeachers
- Bcoursebooks
- Cdevelopment
- Dprojects
8[blank_start]Tomlinson[blank_end] said the following quotte: "What I know is that teachers will continue to develop [blank_start]positively[blank_end] as a result of their involvement in materials development, whether as course [blank_start]participants[blank_end], members of project teams or adapters of materials in their [blank_start]classrooms[blank_end]."
- ATomlinson
- Bpositively
- Cparticipants
- Dclassrooms
9For this question, please select the two correct answers:
Most publishers are understandably anxious to avoid giving offence and often supply their authors with lists of taboo topics, as well as guidelines on how to avoid:
- ASexism.
- BFeminism.
- CRacism.
- DNationalism.
- ASexism.
10For this question, please select the two correct answers:
What is the ‘Angloglobalisation’ about, according to Gray?
- ADiscussing ways in which materials can help to ‘develop counter-hegemonic discourses’ by encouraging critical engagement with issues relating to globalisation.
- BIdentifying what he sees as a positive connection between the British Empire, English and globalisation.
- CPointing out how English has become ‘a form of linguistic capital, capable of bringing a profit of distinction to those speakers with the ability to acces it.
- DAnswering it as an increasingly commodified dimensions of labour-power.
- ADiscussing ways in which materials can help to ‘develop counter-hegemonic discourses’ by encouraging critical engagement with issues relating to globalisation.
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- In the following Quiz, you are going to find ten Questions related to the text "Materials development for language learning and teaching" written by Brian Tomlinson. Each question has the own way of answering, some of them are through multiple choise, checkboxes, true or false and fill the blanks. You must take the test and do each one in the way they are presented
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