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POST-TEST QUESTIONNAIRE
PART ONE ENGLISH for SPECIFIC PURPOSES
RATIONALE: This part of the test will measure how much you could recall of the key notions,
features, special terms, and key issues in this sphere of English language teaching (ELT),
which includes Business English, Technical English, Scientific English, English for
medical professionals, English for tourism, English for Art Purposes, etc.
DIRECTIONS: Read the questions and consider the options carefully. Use the answer sheet provided. Shade
the appropriate bracket neatly. If you want to change your answer, cross out the first one.
Erasures are strongly discouraged.
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1. Which of the following statements is NOT true about slang expressions?
a. Are expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's language or dialect
b. Are considered acceptable in certain social settings
c. Are widely used in informal and formal speech and writing
d. May be new words or old ones used with a new meaning
e. Have a very short, momentary life
4. What term is used to refer to a variety of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social
setting?
a. Register d. Idiolect
b. Basilect e. None of the Above
c. Dialect
6. Which of the following statements characterize ESP in the context of English language teaching?
c. It is centred on the language appropriate to those activities in syntax, lexis, discourse, semantics,
etc., and analysis of this discourse.
e. Tends to be slangy
10. Who defined ESP by identifying its absolute and variable characteristics?
c. Peter Strevens
11. The following writing outputs are products of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), EXCEPT---
a. business letters d. laboratory reports
b. financial reports e. thesis abstracts
c. poems
12. What refers to terminology especially defined in relationship to a specific activity, profession, group, or
event?
b. Genre e. Jargon
c. Style
13. Who identified the three types of ESP as a restricted language, as English for Academic and
Occupational Purposes, and as English with specific topics?
a. David Carter d. Marianne Celce-Murcia
c. Alan Waters
DIRECTIONS: Read the questions and consider the options carefully. Use the answer sheet provided. Shade
the appropriate bracket neatly. If you want to change your answer, cross out the first one.
Erasures are strongly discouraged.
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1. What is a motif in literary writing?
a. The main insight, central idea, or universal truth found in a literary work
b. An image or idea repeated throughout a work or several works of literature
c. The element of surprise in a work of fiction, such as twist ending
d. The writing style adopted by the author which is revealed in his/her word choice
e. None of the above
5. In stylistics parlance, what term refers to the appropriateness of a work to its subject, its genre, and its
audience?
a. Diction d. Point of View
b. Decorum e. Style
c. Tone
6. Which of the following terms refers to the emotional color of or the prevalent emotion in a poem or
work of fiction?
a. Local color d. Diction
b. Theme e. Mood
c. Imagery
8. In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Rev. Dimmesdale metaphorically fades away (dims) as the novel
progresses, while Chillingworth has a cold (chilled) heart. What figurative language is used here?
a. Symbol d. Pun
b. Charactonym e. Metaphor
c. Allusion
9. Which of the following expressions exemplify the stylistic device called allusion?
a. Shakespeare is a literary titan. d. Philippines, O, Pearl of the Orient!
b. Death, be not proud! e. All of the Above
c. Not yet, Rizal, not yet.
10. What rhetorical device did Bacon use in the following excerpt from his essay, Of Studies, when he
drew a comparison between reading and medicine?
Nay, there is no obstacle or impediment in the wit, but may wrought out by fit studies; like as
diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises: bowling is good for the stone and reins;
shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the
like.
a. Anaphora d. Irony
b. Analogy e. Understatement
c. Metaphor
11. Which branch of stylistics studies functions of direct and figurative meanings, as well as the way
contextual meanings of words are realized in the text?
a. Grammatical Stylistics d. Individual Style Study
b. Functional Stylistics e. Lexical Stylistics
c. Phonostylistics
12. Which of the following passages best exemplifies antithesis?
a. For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born,
and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted. (Ecc. 3:1)
b. To err is human; to forgive, divine. (Alexander Pope)
c. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with
ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. (Pearl Bailey)
d. The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise
man are known to himself, but not to the world. (Charles Caleb Colton)
e. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I will learn. (Benjamin
Franklin)
13. The first line in the following excerpts from Shakespeares play The Tempest illustrates a clever
combination of two poetic devices. What are these?
14. What creative use of language is illustrated in this excerpt from Dylan Thomas poem, Do not go gentle
into that good night: Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight ?
a. Assonance d. Apostrophe
b. Metaphor e. Pun
c. Symbolism
15. The last two lines: Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell:/Ding-dong. Hark! /Now I hear them Ding-dong
bell/ contain a sound technique commonly used by poets to add musicality to their work. What
techniques are these?
a. Consonance and rhythm d. Onomatopoeia and assonance
b. Onomatopoeia and rhyme e. None of the above
c. Assonance and rhyme
16. Which of the following expressions best exemplifies a stylistic device called litotes?
a. Its not unusual to find Richard everyday at the library.
b. Defeating a chess grandmaster is no ordinary feat.
c. They arent the happiest couple around
d. Einstein was not a bad mathematician.
e. All of the above
17. Frost is making a serious point about human nature in his poem, Fire and Ice, but his tone is completely
at odds with his message. What type of irony is employed here?
19. To concretize the concept of hatred, Frost chose the word ice. What kind of figurative language is the
word ice in this poem?
a. Symbol d. Paradox
b. Metonymy e. Motif
c. Imagery
20. This excerpt from Ovids Daedalus and Icarus illustrates a structural device used by writers to prepare
the reader for a future event. What device is this?
a. Flashbacking d. Epiphany
b. Foreshadowing e. Allusion
c. Frame story
21. In this excerpt from the short story A Spring by the Seaside, author N.V.M. Gonzalez makes masterful
use of which literary device?
After Longos River, the trail to Mauhaw climbs the Hill of the White Cows and for ten
kilometres or so wanders about the rolling cogon country before finally entering the
woods. Only then may one get glimpses of the sea, heart-warming pictures framed in by
palma-brava and dao trees. Mauhaw Bay itself comes after woods, the winding trail,
after the resin-fragrant winds that strum the buri leaves as though these were guitars.
a. Symbolisms d. Metaphors
b. Local color e. None of the above
c. Allusions
22. In Percy Bysshe Shelleys Ozymandias, he startles us by depicting an ancient boast that survives on the
vacant pedestal. What literary device was employed in this excerpt?
a. Oxymoron d. Irony
b. Paradox e. Anticlimax
c. Metaphor
23. What stylistic device is exemplified by the underlined words in Shelleys sonnet?
a. Symbol d. Metaphor
b. Allusion e. None of the above
c. Overstatement
24. What sound technique is used in this excerpt from A.E. Housmans poem?
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough
a. Rhyme d. Alliteration
b. Repetition e. Consonance
c. Assonance
25. In I.R. Galperins five styles in present-day English, which of the following falls under what he called
Belles Lettres?
a. Oratory and speeches d. News and advertisements
b. Emotive prose and the drama e. All of the above
c. Essays and articles
PART THREE THE STRUCTURE of ENGLISH
RATIONALE: This part of the test will measure your knowledge and understanding of the structural
and grammatical aspects of language, as well as of the tools and methods of modern
linguistics used in describing how English sentences are constructed.
DIRECTIONS: Read the questions and consider the options carefully. Use the answer sheet provided. Shade
the appropriate bracket neatly. If you want to change your answer, cross out the first one.
Erasures are strongly discouraged.
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1. In which of the following structures does the word off function as an adverbial particle?
a. Youre off the hook. d. Their on and off relationship
b. Off with you! e. We put it off too long
c. Im not off yet.
2. The following words may belong to the same lexical category, EXCEPT ---
a. give d. book
b. place e. play
c. fame
4. Which of the following phrases would be generated by this Phrase Structure Rule:
NP Art(Adj)N + PP Prep Det N?
6. In which of the following sentences does the verb be (is) function as the intensive verb or copula?
a. Ed is annoying. d. Ed is annoying me.
b. Ed is fooling around. e. Ed is going out of control.
c. Ed is giving me a hard time.
7. Which type of grammar deals with the rules determining the structure and interpretation of sentences
that speakers accept as belonging to the language?
a. Comparative Grammar d. Performance Grammar
b. Theoretical Grammar e. Generative Grammar
c. Universal Grammar
8. Which of the following are optional constituents of this sentence: The grumpy history teacher
surprised us with an unannounced quiz.
a. grumpy, history, teacher d. grumpy, history, unannounced
b. grumpy, surprised, unannounced e. grumpy, surprised, quiz
c. grumpy, teacher, quiz
10. Which of the following sentence structures contains a ditransitive verb group?
a. Max had replied to my letter.
b. Max has turned a subtle shade of red.
c. Max hates huge spiders.
d. Max found his own jokes extremely funny.
e. Max is giving his boss a headache.
12. What is the function of the underlined constituent in the following sentence:
Phil dreads wild animals in the jungle ?
a. Obligatory Complement d. Optional Complement
b. Optional Modifier e. Objective Predicative
c. Indirect Object
15. Which approach to grammar refers to the structure of a language as it is actually used by speakers and
writers?
a. Prescriptive Grammar d. Descriptive Grammar
b. Pedagogical Grammar e. Reference Grammar
c. Mental Grammar
18. In Chomskys Transformational Grammar, to what does a sentences deep structure refer?
a. The version of a sentence that we articulate and hear
b. The outward form of a sentence
c. The final stage in the syntactic representation of a sentence
d. The abstract representation of a sentence
e. None of the above
19. Lexical ambiguity is best exemplified by which of the following sentences?
a. Hes a sore loser. d. Shes a liar.
b. Thats a good pitch. e. The tree fell over.
c. You bet its real!
20. The following statements about prepositions and prepositional phrases are true, EXCEPT---
a. Prepositions indicate the relationship of a noun phrase to the rest of the sentence.
b. Prepositions are structurally and functionally identical to particles.
c. Prepositions serve as heads of prepositional phrases.
d. Prepositional phrases perform adjectival and adverbial functions.
e. Prepositions must not be separated from their following noun phrases.
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1. What is the study of larger linguistic units, such as conversational exchanges or written texts?
a. Rhetoric d. Discourse Analysis
b. Stylistics e. Pragmatics
c. Genre Analysis
3. Which theory of language origin claims that a number of words in any language are onomatopoeic?
a. Divine Source Theory d. Glossogenetics Theory
b. Natural-sound Source Theory e. None of the Above
c. Oral-gesture Source Theory
9. What do you call the subsequent reference to an already introduced entity, used to maintain reference,
as exemplified by the underlined word in these sentences: I was waiting for the milkman, but he
failed to show up this morning?
a. Referent d. Agent
b. Deixis e. None of the Above
c. Anaphora
12. In which of the following examples should the vowel a be treated as a bound morpheme?
a. About d. AWOL
b. A boy e. None of the Above
c. Asexual
13. Which property of human language allows the users of language to talk about things and events not
present in the immediate environment?
a. Arbitrariness d. Discreteness
b. Displacement e. None of the Above
c. Productivity
14. Which of the following syllables have an onset and a nucleus, but no coda?
a. bat d. wash
b. for e. beg
c. see
16. Words like movie (moving pictures), Aussie (Australian), and hankie (handkerchief) are produced
from a type of backformation favoured in Australian and British English. What is the technical term for
this word formation process
a. clipping d. calque
b. hypocorism e. conversion
c. derivation
17. Which of the following examples shows noun in its genitive form?
a. Their mothers are here d. My mothers tired
b. Your mothers the best e. None of the Above
c. My mothers best friend
18. What is the semantic role of the underlined word in this sentence: Mary borrowed a magazine from
George and hit the bug with it.
a. Theme d. Source
b. Agent e. Goal
c. Instrument
19. Which of the following is phonetically described as mid front tense unrounded vowel?
a. [ i ] d. [ e ]
b. [ u ] e. None of the Above
c. [ ]
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1. What term is used to refer to the process of recognizing words by putting together letters and sounds?
a. Encoding d. Phrase reading
b. Decoding e. None of the above
c. Skimming
2. Which learning theory views organized knowledge as an elaborate network of abstract mental
structures which represent one's understanding of the world?
a. Transformative Learning Theory d. Elaboration Theory
b. Constructivist Theory e. Attribution Theory
c. Schema Theory
3. Who introduced the concepts of Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS) and Cognitive
Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) in second language development in 1979?
a. Jim Cummins d. Dell Hymes
b. Jack Richards e. M.A.K. Halliday
c. Grant Wiggins
5. What term is used to refer to the provision of sufficient support to promote learning when concepts
and skills are being first introduced to students with the intention of helping the student achieve
his/her learning goals?
a. Intervention d. Modelling
b. Scaffolding e. Coaching
c. Tutorial
6. Which approach to language teaching is based on the behaviorist belief that language learning is the
acquisition of a set of correct language habits and whose goal is to use the target language
communicatively, overlearn it, so as to be able to use it automatically?
a. Grammar-Translation Method d. Suggestopedia
b. Direct Method e. Audio-Lingual Method
c. Communicative Approach
9. Self-monitoring and paying attention belong to which category of learning strategies identified by
Oxford in 1989?
a. Metacognitive d. Compensation
b. Affective e. Social
c. Cognitive
12. Which of the following refers to the readers overall background experiences and prior knowledge?
a. Schemata d. Decoding skill
b. Context e. Retention skill
c. Comprehension
14. Which approach to reading involves the breaking down of words into its parts in order to study them?
a. Syllabic Approach d. Analytic Approach
b. Synthetic Approach e. Phonic Approach
c. Eclectic Approach
16. Which of the following explain why learning disabled students struggle with comprehension?
a. Ineffective search behaviours e. All of the above
b. Impaired working memory
c. Inadequate decoding skills
d. Inability to connect causal relationships
19. Which of the following statements accurately describes the Bottom-Up Model of Reading?
a. It is a deductive model of reading because it involves whole-to-part processing.
b. Suggests that the reader constructs meaning from all available sources
c. The primary focus of instruction should be the reading of whole selections
d. Reading is driven by the text, not the reader.
e. The emphasis is on comprehension, not decoding.
20. What do you call those structured outlines that can effectively introduce a new material to students by
showing key facts and vocabulary necessary for understanding concepts to be covered?
a. diagrams d. chapter headings
b. lecture notes e. mind maps
c. glossary
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