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Essay Questions for UAS. Be well prepared. Tanyakan mana yang belum faham.

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1. Psycholinguists suggest that listener’s main goal to determine propositions, and to
identify propositions, they use two kinds of knowledge: knowledge of the syntax of the
target language and knowledge of the real world. Explain this concept!
2. Schema theory of comprehension mentions two types of psychological process of
listening: bottom-up and top-down strategy. Explain this concept and provide example
3. Another concept of listening comes from Morley who maintains that listening is not a
passive skill and it consists of three communicative listening modes: bidirectional,
unidirectional, and auto-directional. Explain this concept and provide example.
4. Describe some classroom practices to help learners improve their listening skills.
5. One of the basic principles in speaking classes is Canale’s Communicative Competence
Theory which constitutes 4 main competences: (1) Grammatical competence, (2)
Sociolinguistic competence, Discourse competence, and Strategic competence. Explain
this concept and provide example.
6. Communicative Competence Theory has significance implications in TEFL: (1)
teaching communicative skills becomes the heart language pedagogy and (2) multiple
language skills should be taught. Explain this concept and provide example.
7. Explain briefly the underlying concept of the following techniques and why they are
suitable for teaching speaking class: role-play and games.
8. Goodman maintains that reading comprehension is “a psycholinguistic guessing game”.
Explain this concept and provide example.
9. According to schema theory, comprehending a text is interactive process between the
reader’s background knowledge and the text.
10. There are two basic modes of information processing: text-based processing skill and
knowledge-based processing skill. Explain this concept and provide example.
11. Explain and give examples of formal schemata and content schemata.
12. Describe some activities which can help develop the students’ text-based processing
skill and some activities which can develop the students’ knowledge-based processing
skill.
13. Explain the main characteristics of product approach of teaching writing.
14. Explain the main characteristics of process approach of teaching writing
15. Explain the main characteristics of genre-based approach of teaching writing
16. Psycholinguistic perspective views that learning new items (i.e. vocabulary) involve
storing them first in our short-term memory, and afterwards in long-term memory.
Explain this concept and provide example.
17. What do you know of the difference between memorization and remembering?
18. Oxford proposes some memory strategies to aid vocabulary learning: (1) creating
mental (2) applying images and sounds (3) reviewing well, and (4) employing action.
Explain this concept and provide example.
19. One of techniques in teaching vocabulary explicitly is through semantic networks.
Explain this concept and provide example.
20. One of techniques in teaching vocabulary explicitly is through guessing meaning from
context. Explain this concept and provide example.
21. What is collocation? Explain why is collocation is very important in language learning!
22. Thornbury distinguishes between word, sentence, and text grammar; discuss how these
types of grammar differ.
23. In TEFL, the teaching of grammar can be taught deductively and inductively (see
cognitive code learning in TEFL 1-book). Explain this concept and provide example.
24. Larsen-Freeman proposes a pie chart to deal with the complexity of grammar,
consisting of structure or form, semantics or meaning, and the pragmatic conditions
governing use. Explain this concept and provide example.
25. Classroom procedure applicable for teaching grammar is the PPP model. Discuss what
this abbreviation stands for and explain the procedural techniques of teaching grammar.
26. Classroom procedure applicable for teaching grammar is the ESA model. Discuss what
this abbreviation stands for and explain the procedural techniques of teaching grammar.
27. What do you know of ESP and how this differs from GE (general English).
28. In conducting ESP course, one should first conduct the students’ need analysis. Explain
this concept and give example.
29. Design an ESP Program based on the imagination Need Analysis.

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