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2016-08-16 21:10:58 tive listening
113- Washback in language testing ....................
I) is limited to formative assessment
2) is a feature of consequential validity
3) Can be either summative or formative
4) refers to the effect of testing in large-scale assessment
114- Why do cloze tasks not qualify as cloze tests?
1) They involve deletion of content words
2) They are based on the multiple-choice format
3) They are based on stratified random deletion.
4) They violate the assumption of naturalness of the language.
115- Which of the following elicitation forms encourage test-takers to resort to uttering half remembered snatches of exchanges once learned by rote?
1) Interview
2) Interpreting
3) Role play
4) Discussion
116- Which of the following validation procedures is needed to ensure that the items in a reading test are really measuring the sub-skills of reading ability?
I) Construct validation
2) Content validation
3) Concurrent validation
4) Predictive validation
ll7- Making sure that sound amplification is clearly audible to every test-taker in the room is an attempt toward achieving ...................
1) validity
2) practicality
3) reliability
4) authenticity
118- Which of the following is the concept of scorer reliability related to?
1) Backwash effect
2) Profile reporting
3) Test/re-test reliability
4) Mark/re-mark reliability
119- A test is more reliable in all of the following ways EXCEPT ...............
1) administering the test of heterogeneous students
2) assessing different language materials
3) having scores dispersed
4) making the test longer
120- Which of the following is NOT needed to estimate the reliability of a test through KR-21 formula?
I) Number of test-takers
2) number or test items
3) Variance
4) Mean score Open / Comment

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3)is mainly designed to present key notions in daily life
4)can be organized around notions such as accepting and apologizing
96- The “why” questions that students typically ask to learn about the world around them reflect the ………………. function of language.
I) regulatory
2) instrumental
3) heuristic
4) representational
97- Canale and Swain's model of communicative competence includes ……………
1) grammatical, discourse, sociolinguistic, and strategic competences
2) grammatical, sociolinguistic, discourse, and textual competences
3) grammatical, discourse, pragmatic, and textual competences
4) grammatical, pragmatic, textual, and strategic competences
98- The Whole Language Approach ………………
I) advocates the use of commercial materials
2 considers teachers as the subject matter teachers
3)encourages teachers to transmit knowledge to students
4)is based on the humanistic and constructivist learning theory
99- lntrapersonal intelligence is most closely related to all of the following EXCEPT ……….
1) goal setting
2) journal keeping
3) field trips
4) reflective learning
100- In language classes, rhetorical questions are those that ……………..
1) the teacher intends to answer
2) require knowledge of spoken style
3) attempt to elicit information already known
4) request information not shared by the hearer
101- Consider a range of 20 points (l to 20) and the mean 18. Such a test ………………….
I) is positively skewed
2) is negatively skewed
3) reveals practice effect
4) should b counterbalanced
102- The unitary trait hypothesis was favored by language testing specialists who were proponents of ……………
1) integrative tests
2) discrete-point tests
3) task-based assessment
4) the essay-translation approach
103- Which of the following is true about alternative assessment?
I) It is a process-oriented continuous form of assessment.
2) It is based on an untimed, free-response format.
3) It is one-shot and presents decontextualized test items.
4) It provides individualized feedback and washback.
104- The formula 10z+50 is used to ………………………
1) change a raw score into at standardized score
2) measure the dispersion of a set of scores
3) calculate percentiles
4) calculate T scores
105- Imagine that only half of the students in the high abiIity group in a class of 20 respond to one of the items correctly, and everyone in the low-ability group fails to respond to it. What would the discrimination index for this item be?
1) 1
2) 0.5
3) 0
4) -0.5
106- What would be the standard error of measurement for a test with a reliability index of 0.75 and a standard deviation of 10?
1) 175
2) 50
3) 25
4) 5
107- “Tom's score was 17 points higher than Jane's in a test with the highest score of 100.” In this case, the scale of measurement is ………………
1) ordinal
2) nominal
3) interval
4) ratio
108- It is NOT true that a norm-referenced test ……………….
1) is based on what students exactly expect of test questions
2) relies on the normal distribution of scores around a mean
3) measures general language abilities
4) includes a variety of test content
109- What is wrong with the following multiple choice litem? I can't believe him because he's always …………… lies. a. saying b. telling c. keeping d. talking
I) There is a pair of synonyms in the options.
2)The stem is not long and informative enough.
3)The options are of more or less the same length.
4)The options do not belong to the same area of meaning.
110- What kind of item is the following? Reza can swim better than you. You cannot swim ...................
1) Rearrangement
2) Transformation
3) Combination
4) Addition
111- When a single teacher has unclear criteria, fatigue, or bias, the main concern is ………….
I) test reliability
2) test-retest reliability
3) intra-rater reliability
4) inter-rater reliability
112- What kind of item does the following listening task focus on? Test-taker hears: Is she living? Test-taker reads: (a) Is she living? (b) Is he leaving?
1) Selective listening
2) Responsive listening
3) Intensive listening
4) Interac Open / Comment

2016-08-16 21:10:57 elationship between finger and hand?
1) Reverse
2) Meronymy
3) Converse
4) Gradable antonymy
78- What is the relationship between offense and defense?
1) Hypernyms
2 ) Converse
3) Homonyms
4) Antonyms
79- In Italian flore became fiore. This is an example of …………...
I) elision
2) assimilation
3) dissimilation
4) liaison
80- Consider how the sounds of bold letters are produced in the following words. Which features distinguish them from each other? drum drug
1) Place and manner
2) Manner and voice
3) Voice and place
4) Manner and voice and place
81- Which of the following statements represents a principle of the Silent Way?
l) the teacher should teach the language and not about the language.
2) the teacher works with the student, and the student works on the language.
3)The teacher should stress acquisition activities rather than learning activities.
4)Human beings perceive much more in their environment than they consciously notice.
82- Which of the following is NOT represented by SARD, as used in the Community Language Learning?
I) Security
2) Discrimination
3) Reflection
4) Acculturation
83- The proponents of lnterlanguage do NOT believe in …………………
I) learner as producers of malinformed language
2) legitimacy of learners' second language systems
3) separateness of a second language learner's system
4) a structurally intermediate status of the Learner’s language
84- Which of the following is NOT a feature of the synthetic approach to language teaching?
1) Language elements are taught piece by piece.
2) The content of the course is product-oriented.
3) Learners are exposed to unsimplified language.
4) Language rules are learned in an additive fashion.
85) A field independent style enables us to ……………..
I) perceive the whole picture
2) have field sensitivity
3) be more empathic
4) analyze separate variable
86- Discourse competence is mainly concerned with all of the following EXCEPT:
I) stretch of sentences
2) sentence-level grammar
3) intersentential relationships
4) cohesive devices
87- In the task type called 'information transfer,’…………..
1)a given text is translated from L2 to L1
2)information is transfered from the teacher to students
3)some information in one mode is applied to another mode
4)two-way communication happens due to information gap
88- “Because of its global nature, it is a more permanent predisposition to be anxious.” This refers to ………………….
1) communication apprehension
2) state anxiety
3) trail anxiety
4) test anxiety
89- According to the affective filter hypothesis, the three kinds of affective variables related to second language acquisition are ……………..
I) motivation, self-confidence, and anxiety
2)self-confidence, security, and perseverance
3)motivation, self-confidence and security
4)self-confidence, anxiety, and perseverance
90- Which of the following is true about approach compared to method ?
1) They offer a clear application of their principles in the classroom.
2) They solve many of the problems novice teachers are faced with.
3) They encompass a clear right or wrong way of teaching,
4) They have a longer shelf life.
91- What are left-brained-dominant second language learners good at?
I) Dealing with abstraction, classification and reorganization
2) Inductive classroom environment
3) Artistic expressions
4) Whole images
92- Code-switching is a typical exampte of a …………..
1) socioaffective strategy
2) metacognitive strategy
3) compensatory strategy
4)cognitive strategy
93- Cognitive strategies .................
1) indicate an executive function
2) encompass deduction and inferencing
3) have to do with social-mediating activity
4) involve more indirect manipulation of the input
94- As a type of compensatory strategy, stalling strategies refer to …………..
1)asking for aid from interlocutors
2) the description of the target action
3) translating a lexical item literally
4) the use of fillers
95- The Notional-Functional syllabus …………….......
1) was a reaction to CLT
2) considers space, time, and quantity as Open / Comment

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61- A single grapheme which represents a word or a morpheme is known as a ................. This stands in contrast to other writing systems such as ................... , where each symbol primarily represents a sound or a combination of sounds.
1) . logogram, alphabet
2) ideogram, alphabets
3) pictogram, alphabets
4 pictogram logogram
62- What is the constituent that has been identified with the help of the proform test in the following sentence? Mary will open the door with her own key, and John will do so, too.
l ) open the door
2) open the door with her own key
3) will open the door
4) will open the door with her own key
63- What does the following text show? Jack saw an explosion in Madrid. The reporter did so, too.
1)'in Madrid’ is an adjunct.
2)‘saw an explosion in Madrid' is a CP.
3) ‘saw an explosion in Madrid’ can be moved.
4) ‘saw an explosion in Madrid' is a constituent.
64- The following sentence is ungrammatical because …………….. *The police arrested immediately the burglar.
l) the complement precedes the adjunct
2) the adjunct precedes the complement
3) there is no complement
4) there is no adjunct
65- Which of the following is NOT one of the felicity conditions on "promise" in a sentence like "A promises B to do X'?
I) A is able to do X.
2) A is willing to do X.
3) X has already been done.
4) A believes B want X done.
66- In which of the following sentences is the underlined section a constituent?
I) John read a book about philosophy.
2) Young children go to bed very early,
3) Susan handed Lean the blue stapler with a smile.
4) The captain settled in the bay for hours and hours
67- Which of the following statements is WRONG?
1) The place of articulation of a consonant is the point of contact where an obstruction occurs in the vocal tract.
2)The place where the airstream is obstructed is significant for the exact production of sounds.
3)Coronal consonants are dental and interdental, alveolar, post-alveolar and palate-alveolar sounds.
4)English alveolar sounds include [t], [d]. [n] [s], [z] and [w].
68- The words in column A have been created from the corresponding words in column B. Which of them is a case of backformation? Column A Column B
1)Scavenge Scavenger
2)S i-fi Science fiction
3) Decision Decide
4) Van Caravan
69- What is the thematic role of each of the underlined expressions in the following sentence? The tutor had the participant drop the ball.
l) Agent, goal theme
2) Agent, theme, theme
3) Agent benefactory, theme
4) Theme, agent, location.
70- Which of the following is a voiced labial plosive?
1) /p/
2) /t/
3) /d/
4) /b/
71- Which sound do the following features refer to? Voiced. labial-velar, median-approximant
1) /b/
2) /g/
3) /w/
4) /h/
72- Which of the given example is NOT a type of word-formation?
1) Blend
2) Backformation
3) Conversion
4) Inflection
73- Which of the following is NOT a perlocutionary act?
1) Inviting
2) Convincing
3) Scaring
4) Persuading
74- What is the relationship between the following two sentences'? "Bill is a better linguist than Mary". "Mary is a linguist".
1) The second sentence presuppose the first one.
2) The first sentence presupposes the second one.
3) The first sentence entails the second one.
4) The second sentence entails the first one.
75- A boy has difficulty sensing touch on the left side of his body after having a tumor removed from his cerebral cortex. Where in his brain did be most likely suffer damage?
1) The right parietal lobe
2)The left region of the temporal lob
3)The anterior region of the temporal lobe
4) The posterior region of the temporal Iobe
76- Which of the following is NOT one of the main components of Wernicke's aphasia?
I) Difficulty in getting the meaning conveyed by grammatical relationships
2) Lesions that affect the posteriori region of the temporal lobe
3) Impairment in the comprehension of written language
4) Difficulty producing words
77-. What is the r Open / Comment