I.True or false. Directions: Judge whether the following statements are true or false. Write a T in the brackets after a true statements and an F before a false statements.

( ) 1. When teachers explore vocabulary teaching methods they must also consider their learners. For example, how do learners learn or acquire English vocabulary?

( ) 2. Learning English pronunciation directly or indirectly influences and affects the development of skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.

( ) 3. The ultimate goals of learning English pronunciation are for students to understand what speakers are really saying based on the different features of pronunciation; and to use pronunciation correctly to express their own intentions, feelings and objectives in communication.

( ) 4. Contrastive Analysis in pronunciation advocates authenticity in teaching contexts and language materials, and proposes learning language as a communicative process.

( ) 5. Teaching pronunciation should follow the principles of accuracy, long-term development, comprehensiveness, pertinence, interest, communication, and authenticity

( ) 6. The denotative meaning of a word refers to the meaning in the dictionary, that is, its literal meaning, which is also called its referential meaning. The connotative meaning of a word refers to the cultural notions attached to a word as well as the meaning in the specific context.

( ) 7. The strategies for learning a word can be divided into controlling strategies, resource strategies, cognitive strategies, memory strategies and strategies for organizing activities.

( ) 8. The curriculum advocates learning and remembering words in discourse to increase efficiency in learning vocabulary and avoiding memorizing words in an isolated and mechanical way.

( ) 9. From the influences of structuralism and behaviorist psychology emerged Audiolingualism, an approach which emphasizes sentence practice and takes accuracy as its goal.

( ) 10. Task-based grammar's teaching is same as task-based teaching in listening, speaking and reading,

II.Short answers. Directions: answer the following questions briefly.

1.Mr. Wang rarely explains the usage of vocabulary in English class, but his students remember the vocabulary very well. What is the secret behind Mr. Wang’s vocabulary teaching approach?

2.What do you think the main problems are which elementary and middle school grammar teaching is currently facing in China?

3.Please analyze the advantages, and disadvantages of deductive and inductive grammar teaching.