DELTA MODULE 1 Exam/ 994 Questions with
Certified Solutions/ 2024-2025.
Test-Teach-Test - Answer: A lesson design in which learners first perform a task, which the
teacher uses to assess learners' specific needs. They are then taught whatever they need in
order to re-do the task more effectively.
modality - Answer: The lexical and grammatical ways used by speakers to express their attitude
to what they're saying. For example: Maybe Sarah is a chef. (lexical _______: adverb)
cohesion - Answer: The use of grammatical and lexical means to achieve connected text, either
spoken or written.
induction - Answer: The process of working out rules on the basis of examples. Also called
discovery learning.
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,priming - Answer: The process by which a word gathers particular associations through
repeated encounters.
process writing - Answer: An approach to writing where learners are encouraged to brainstorm,
plan, draft, re-draft, review, and "publish" their written work.
word family - Answer: A group of words which share the same root but have different affixes, as
in care, careful, careless, carefree, uncaring, carer.
sentence - Answer: The largest purely grammatical unit in a language.
silent period - Answer: This refers to the fact that children learning their first language go
through a lengthy period simply listening before they say their first words.
uptake - Answer: What learners report to have learnt from a language lesson. Typically this does
not match what the teacher intended to teach.
notional syllabus - Answer: A syllabus that is organised according to general areas of meaning
that are used in most grammars, such as frequency, location, duration and possibility.
deixis - Answer: The way language points to spatial, temporal and personal features of the
context. For example, I have been here three weeks now, the referents of I, here and now
cannot be identified without knowing the context.
phatic language - Answer: Language whose purpose is to smooth the conduct of social relations.
It has an interpersonal function.
phoneme - Answer: One of the distinctive sounds of a particular language. It cannot be replaced
with another sound without causing a change in meaning.
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,phonology - Answer: The study of a sound system of a particular language, which describes the
abstract system that allows the speakers of a language to distinguish meaning from mere verbal
noise.
polysemy - Answer: This refers to the case where one word has more than one related meaning.
prosodic features - Answer: The stress, rhythm, and intonation along with tempo, loudness and
voice quality of speech.
ellipsis - Answer: The leaving out of elements of a sentence because they are either
unnecessary or because their sense can be worked out from the immediate context.
display questions - Answer: Asked by teachers in order to find out what a learner can say in the
target language.
face validity - Answer: Used to say that a test is acceptable to a learner, in that it meets the
learner's expectations of what a test should be like.
TALO - Answer: Text as a Linguistic Object
TAVI - Answer: Text as a Vehicle for Information
TASP - Answer: Text as a Stimulus for Production
Dictogloss - Answer: A classroom dictation activity where learners are required to reconstruct a
short text by listening and noting down key words, which are then used as a base for
reconstruction.
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, Diagnostic test - Answer: A test that helps the teacher and learners identify problems that they
have with the language.
Diglossia - Answer: A situation where a language that has two forms, one a 'higher' and more
prestigious form used by educated speakers in formal situations, and the other a 'lower',
vernacular form used more commonly.
Dipthong - Answer: A one-syllable sound that is made up of two vowels. In Received
Pronunciation English there are eight of these.
Discourse management - Answer: The ability to produce extended written and spoken texts, for
example conversations.
Achievement test - Answer: This test evaluates a learner's understanding of a specific course or
study programme.
Action research - Answer: A development tool for a teacher that involves observing or gathering
other data about a class through interviews, case studies, and questionnaires.
Non-gradable adjectives - Answer: Adjectives that cannot be expressed in degrees and so
cannot be graded.
Backwash - Answer: The positive or negative impact of a test on classroom teaching.
Substitution - Answer: The replacing of a noun phrase or a clause by a single word in order to
avoid repetition or to make a text more cohesive.
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Certified Solutions/ 2024-2025.
Test-Teach-Test - Answer: A lesson design in which learners first perform a task, which the
teacher uses to assess learners' specific needs. They are then taught whatever they need in
order to re-do the task more effectively.
modality - Answer: The lexical and grammatical ways used by speakers to express their attitude
to what they're saying. For example: Maybe Sarah is a chef. (lexical _______: adverb)
cohesion - Answer: The use of grammatical and lexical means to achieve connected text, either
spoken or written.
induction - Answer: The process of working out rules on the basis of examples. Also called
discovery learning.
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,priming - Answer: The process by which a word gathers particular associations through
repeated encounters.
process writing - Answer: An approach to writing where learners are encouraged to brainstorm,
plan, draft, re-draft, review, and "publish" their written work.
word family - Answer: A group of words which share the same root but have different affixes, as
in care, careful, careless, carefree, uncaring, carer.
sentence - Answer: The largest purely grammatical unit in a language.
silent period - Answer: This refers to the fact that children learning their first language go
through a lengthy period simply listening before they say their first words.
uptake - Answer: What learners report to have learnt from a language lesson. Typically this does
not match what the teacher intended to teach.
notional syllabus - Answer: A syllabus that is organised according to general areas of meaning
that are used in most grammars, such as frequency, location, duration and possibility.
deixis - Answer: The way language points to spatial, temporal and personal features of the
context. For example, I have been here three weeks now, the referents of I, here and now
cannot be identified without knowing the context.
phatic language - Answer: Language whose purpose is to smooth the conduct of social relations.
It has an interpersonal function.
phoneme - Answer: One of the distinctive sounds of a particular language. It cannot be replaced
with another sound without causing a change in meaning.
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,phonology - Answer: The study of a sound system of a particular language, which describes the
abstract system that allows the speakers of a language to distinguish meaning from mere verbal
noise.
polysemy - Answer: This refers to the case where one word has more than one related meaning.
prosodic features - Answer: The stress, rhythm, and intonation along with tempo, loudness and
voice quality of speech.
ellipsis - Answer: The leaving out of elements of a sentence because they are either
unnecessary or because their sense can be worked out from the immediate context.
display questions - Answer: Asked by teachers in order to find out what a learner can say in the
target language.
face validity - Answer: Used to say that a test is acceptable to a learner, in that it meets the
learner's expectations of what a test should be like.
TALO - Answer: Text as a Linguistic Object
TAVI - Answer: Text as a Vehicle for Information
TASP - Answer: Text as a Stimulus for Production
Dictogloss - Answer: A classroom dictation activity where learners are required to reconstruct a
short text by listening and noting down key words, which are then used as a base for
reconstruction.
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, Diagnostic test - Answer: A test that helps the teacher and learners identify problems that they
have with the language.
Diglossia - Answer: A situation where a language that has two forms, one a 'higher' and more
prestigious form used by educated speakers in formal situations, and the other a 'lower',
vernacular form used more commonly.
Dipthong - Answer: A one-syllable sound that is made up of two vowels. In Received
Pronunciation English there are eight of these.
Discourse management - Answer: The ability to produce extended written and spoken texts, for
example conversations.
Achievement test - Answer: This test evaluates a learner's understanding of a specific course or
study programme.
Action research - Answer: A development tool for a teacher that involves observing or gathering
other data about a class through interviews, case studies, and questionnaires.
Non-gradable adjectives - Answer: Adjectives that cannot be expressed in degrees and so
cannot be graded.
Backwash - Answer: The positive or negative impact of a test on classroom teaching.
Substitution - Answer: The replacing of a noun phrase or a clause by a single word in order to
avoid repetition or to make a text more cohesive.
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