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Bu testte 50 soru vardır.

1. Which of the following sentences does not contain a 3. Which of the following sentences contains a
collective noun? structural ambiguity?

A) The target audience for the advertisement was A) The woman in my office cannot bear children.
mainly teenagers.
B) All the local clergy were asked to attend the B) The tourists complained that they had trouble
ceremony. following the guide.
C) The family has decided to move to another city. C) We booked a room that was very close to the bank.

D) Measles causes fever and small red spots that cover D) He filled the pen right after the meetings.
the whole body.
E) The Government has been considering further tax E) The boy ate the apple under the table.
cuts.

2. In which of the following sentences is the 4. In English, different affixes may share a similar function.
underlined expression misused?
Based on the information above, in which of the
A) The three sisters are devoted to one another. following words is the suffix used to serve a
different purpose?
B) The children had a fight and started to hit each
other. A) Industrial B) Applicant C) Employer

C) After ten years, Patrick and Ted were happy to see

themselves again. D) Violinist E) Mathematician

D) I’m not sure if I’ll type my paper myself.

E) He’s lived by himself since his wife died.

5. Which of the following lexical items is
monosyllabic?

A) Movie B) Yellow C) Talked

D) Open E) Measure

6. Which of the following lexical items is inflected?

A) Discussion B) Stolen C) Enyojable

D) Worker E) Truly

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7. In linguistics, the lack of technology for audio 11. In which of the following sentences is the definite
recording has ---- the analysis of spoken English article ‘the’ misused?
usage over time.
A) The extreme volumes of car emissions produced in
A) hindered B) accelerated C) anticipated developing countries can be a leading factor in
overall environmental pollution.

D) relieved E) overestimated B) With screaming hooligans, the stadium was a place

of total chaos.

C) People from the Maldives are used to travelling long

hours to get anywhere.
8. It is assumed that non-verbal communication
is much more powerful than verbal or vocal D) The men approach conflict differently in comparison
communication ---- it is more honest and more to their opposite gender.
difficult to fake.

A) unless B) even though E) The White House is a monumental building worth

seeing in Washington D.C.
C) so that D) because

E) as if

12. In which of the following sentences does the

pronoun ‘he’ necessarily refer to someone other
than John?
9. Researchers have listed a number of myths ---- the
nature and cause of happiness, and the most A) It embarrassed John that he forgot his credit card.
striking one is that children add significantly ---- the
happiness of married couples. B) He knew that John had lost his keys.

A) on / towards B) about / to C) That he broke the vase shocked John.

C) at / through D) in / from D) Since he was sacked, John cried.

E) John left because he wanted to.

E) of / by

13. Which of the following sentences does not contain a

10. The vast expansion of the Internet ---- unless people punctuation error?
---- money out of it.
A) Rumour breeds mistrust; mistrust breeds fear.
A) has not occurred / used to make

B) might not have occurred / can make B) The new car was equipped with, power steering,
cruise control, and a stereo system.
C) should not have occurred / are to make
C) The course syllabus listed three basic requirements;
D) could not have occurred / have to make essays, tests, and reflective reports.
D) For breakfast we had: sausages, eggs, toast, and
E) would not have occurred / could make
coffee.
E) I wonder who will win the Academy Award for the
best actress this year?

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14. - 16. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya göre

cevaplayınız. 15. According to the passage, the author’s view
regarding foreign language speaker’s not making
many mistakes ----.
All learners make mistakes. This is not confined to
language learners. We all make mistakes when we are A) is that this might not stem from good knowledge of
speaking our mother tongue. Whether we bother to language but from little risk-taking strategy and using
correct ourselves or not seems to depend on whether only the best-known knowledge
we think our hearers have noticed, and how urgently we
want to get on with what we are saying. We know how B) contradicts what many other linguists view that
to correct them; we can recognize our own mistakes for mistakes are constructive in developing knowledge
what they are. This is not usually the case with mistakes of language
made by a learner. Not only does he not always
recognize his mistakes, but when his attention is drawn C) could be related to the context in which foreign
to them, he often cannot correct them; he may even language is performed as a part of natural
commit another error in trying to do so. Furthermore, the communication
majority of learners’ errors are linguistically quite
different from those made by a native speaker. We D) is generally highlighting the lack of knowledge of
judge a foreigner’s knowledge of our language by the pronunciation acquired inadequately from different
number and sort of mistakes he makes. We are inclined sources
to think that he knows our language quite well if he does
not make many mistakes. It does not usually occur to us E) overlaps with learners’ mistakes in that both believe
that he may be avoiding taking risks and confining in the contribution of mistakes to the learning
himself to doing only what he knows he can do right. process
Non-specialist people assess a foreigner’s ability in their
language in the first place by how haltingly he speaks
and by how good his pronunciation is, that is in linguistic 16. It can be inferred from the passage that language
terms, but in its most superficial aspect. Contrary to professionals ----.
language professionals, they tend to assume that one
can equate a poorer pronunciation with a general lack of A) know that fluency is a quality that changes according
knowledge of the language, and that a halting speech is to the speech situation and the topic of conversation
confined to those who do not know the language well.

B) revise their superficial judgements once they have

been long exposed to the foreign language speaking

C) do not assess a learner’s language knowledge with

reference to speaking performance, but consider the
14. It is clearly stated in the passage that native nature of his or her knowledge
speakers ----.
D) think that the fewer mistakes a learner makes, the
A) are thought to be quite beneficial to language more and better he knows the language and uses it
learners if they commit no errors in communication fluently

B) share most of the linguistic characteristics of the E) have not taken any risks while performing language
mistakes made by language learners as much as learners have, as mistakes are not a
part of language learning for them
C) recognize and correct their mistakes faster than
language learners
D) may not easily correct their errors while talking to
language learners
E) make mistakes characterized differently from those
of learners of another language

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17. Okan: 18. Stephen:

 I’ll never be able to speak English. I’m often too  Do you remember that I listened to a professor of
stressed to talk in the classroom. sociolinguistics from Arizona giving a talk about how
and why languages change over time?
Clifford:
 Why? Does anyone laugh at your mistakes? Edward:
 Yes, I do. I also remember that you found it
Okan: breathtaking. It seems you now have negative
 ---- opinions about it.

Clifford: Stephen:
 Really? All you need is less interruption then.  ----

Edward:
Which of the following alternatives best completes  That’s normal. Academic research, especially paper
the given dialogue? presentations, can’t be so broad. You shouldn’t
expect a comprehensive discussion, but an in-depth
A) I can’t tolerate rudeness. I need to make thoughtful
depiction of one aspect of a broad issue.
friends in the class.

B) Not really, but I don’t like it when the teacher

constantly corrects my speech. Which of the following alternatives best completes
the given dialogue?
C) I definitely need more practice in grammar and
pronunciation. A) Yet, what fascinated me more than language change
was the part that effectively addressed how sounds
D) Honestly speaking, I never criticize my classmates.
change.

E) Actually, everybody except me likes the topics for

conversation. B) The way he presented his ideas had distinctive
characteristics such as drawing figures to make
things clear for the audience and frequently asking
opinions from the audience.

C) He highlighted that changes in morphology and

syntax occur more slowly than those in meanings of
words.

D) Yes, at first, I felt impressed, but as I listened to it

again from his online blog, I found out that it was too
specific.

E) I felt disappointed to learn that linguists reconstruct

languages no longer spoken and account for the
changes in language with dialect and register
variation.

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19. Richard: 20. Test scores are only one measure of a student’s
 Have you read the school counsellor’s article achievement, and other qualities must be taken into
published in the latest issue of the school bulletin? account.

William: Which of the following alternatives best restates the

 Unfortunately, I haven’t. What’s special about it? given sentence?

Richard: A) Student achievement is a quality that can be

 The article makes the point that current theories lend measured and taken into account through the use of
support to collaboration rather than rivalry in learning a test score.
environments. Does it remind you of anything?
B) Taking into account a student’s test scores is a way
of measuring what a student can achieve through his
William: or her different qualities.
 ----
C) When we consider different measurements of a
student’s achievement, the principal quality to look
Which of the following alternatives best completes
for is a test score.
the given dialogue?
D) Looking at a student’s different qualities is only one
A) I’m planning to carry out research on a number of of the many different achievements that can be
topics to improve in-class practices, so I have to measured through a test score.
work hard this semester.
E) Different qualities need to be considered when we
B) Certainly, it has something to do with my research look at a student’s achievement – test scores alone
topic ‘perspectives on learning from peers’, so I are not enough.
ought to read it soon.

C) I’m not sure if current educators and students are in

favour of learning by doing rather than dealing with
pure theoretical data.

D) It would be nice to have a look at the article in case I

might miss important information about the research
topic that I’m working on.

E) I think rivalry in education is something that has

fallen out for a long time, and new trends are on the
way.

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21. There is now a widespread acceptance of the 22. Teachers ask many questions during the course of
importance played by formulaic expressions in language instruction, with some teachers asking as many as 300
use due to the advances in corpus linguistics that have to 400 questions a day. Questions are generally asked
testified to their frequent use. for one of two purposes: to maintain student attention or
to collect information about students’ current
Which of the following alternatives best restates the understanding. Questions asked to maintain attention
given sentence? are often short ones framed during teaching that require
factual responses by a single student. ---- In addition,
A) The importance of formulaic expressions in responses by multiple students are often solicited, and
language use has been widely acknowledged the responses form the basis for the teacher’s
because the advances in corpus linguistics have judgement about students’ understanding and serve as
given evidence that they are frequently used. a springboard for further discussion.

B) The significance of formulaic expressions in Which of the following alternatives best completes
language use was hardly approved before the the given paragraph?
widespread use of corpus linguistics frequently
counted in language studies. A) In contrast, questions designed to assess students’
comprehension are often more open-ended and
C) The studies in corpus linguistics have advanced focus on conceptual understanding.
considerably due to the fact that they have been
widely used to testify the importance of formulaic B) When asking questions, it is important not to call
expressions in language use. only on students who have their hands raised.
D) It is now widely accepted that had it not been for the
significance of formulaic expressions in language C) Short wait times convey a message to students that
use, the studies in corpus linguistics would not have answers should be readily available and do not
advanced enough to show their frequency. require careful thought.

E) Now that corpus linguistics has advanced to the D) Paying attention to few students who always share
extent that it is widely accepted as an important area their thinking might cause the teacher to lose touch
of language studies, the frequency of formulaic with the class as a whole.
expressions could be testified.
E) Questions that necessitate brief and correct
responses keep students engaged in learning and
require them to pay continuous attention.

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23. People often say that language teaching is an art. If all 24. (I) One of the ways of observing teaching and learning in
they mean when they say this is that it is a highly skilled second or foreign language classrooms is to describe
activity which is learnt by careful observation and patient classroom behaviours without a set of predetermined
practice, then it is a harmless platitude. ---- We call a categories. (II) Instead, the observer takes extensive
particular practical activity an art when it cannot be notes of the activities, practices and interactions
carried out successfully by following a set of rules of between teachers and learners. (III) This approach to
thumb, when our knowledge of all the factors involved is classroom observation, often referred to as
incomplete and when, consequently, many of the ethnography, is similar to the way in which an
decisions on how to proceed must be left to the private anthropologist takes field notes in studying a group of
knowledge and experience of the practitioner. Language people in their natural surroundings. (IV) Ethnographic
teaching is an activity of this sort. It involves many approaches to understanding teaching and learning
different considerations, or, in technical language, involve qualitative studies that are much broader in
variables, the relative importance, or value of which, scope than the other studies. (V) In doing ethnographic
even if we are aware of them all, cannot yet readily be research in classrooms, the observer can either be a
assessed or quantified. participant in the classroom activities or a
non-participant who sits quietly and unobtrusively.
Which of the following alternatives best completes
the given paragraph? Which of the sentences in the given paragraph is
irrelevant, violating its unity and coherence?
A) However, there is a considerable body of knowledge
available about the nature of human language, about A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
how it is learned and what part it plays in the
community.

B) There are, for example, many factors to be taken

into account in any teaching task: the aptitude and
personality of pupils, their intellectual capacities, or
motivation towards learning.

C) But what often lies behind the assertion is that

science and art are mutually exclusive and that 25. (I) Using content from other disciplines in language
therefore science can play no part in language courses is not a new idea. (II) For years, specialized
teaching. language courses have treated content relevant to a
particular profession or academic discipline. (III) So, for
D) Nevertheless, if we interpret language teaching in
example, the content of a language course for airline
the very broadest sense, to include all the planning
pilots is different from one for computer technicians.
and decision-making, then there may be an element
(IV) This is usually thought of as teaching a language for
of applied linguistics.
specific purposes for those majoring in the departments
they specialize in. (V) However, teachers should build on
E) As often said, the study of a language is beset by
the difficulty that it deals with something utterly students’ previous experience, and language is learned
familiar, like the study of any other characteristic of most effectively when it is used as a medium to convey
man. content of interest to the students.

Which of the sentences in the given paragraph is

irrelevant, violating its unity and coherence?

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V

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26. A(n) ---- narrator is an internal narrator who consistently 29. The Canterbury Tales is widely considered Chaucer’s
refers to himself or herself using the pronoun ‘I’ or ‘we’. masterpiece. It is a collection of tales told by pilgrims on
their way to the shrine of St Thomas á Becket in
Choose the alternative which best completes the Canterbury. Although Chaucer was presumably familiar
given sentence. with Boccaccio’s Decameron, from which he borrows
the idea of the collection of tales by different people, the
A) second-person B) first-person end result is very different. Chaucer’s pilgrims come
from all classes and areas of society, and he uses the
C) third-person D) omniscient connecting links between tales, as well as the prologue
with a description of all the pilgrims, to paint a rich
portrait of 14th-century life.
E) unreliable
Which of the following is true according to the
passage?

A) Chaucer translated Boccaccio’s Decameron.

B) Chaucer’s inspiration in writing The Canterbury

27. A novel that depicts the growth of a character from
Tales was Boccaccio’s Decameron.
childhood or adolescence to maturity through a troubled
quest for identity is called ----. C) Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is about St Thomas
á Becket.
Choose the alternative which best completes the
given sentence. D) In The Canterbury Tales, all Chaucer’s pilgrims are
from a wealthy society.
A) metafiction B) gothic novel
E) The Canterbury Tales is a collection of the tales told
C) bildungsroman D) historical novel by St Thomas á Becket.

E) social novel

30. Which of the following protagonist-antagonist

combinations in Shakespeare’s plays is correct?

28. ‘Quiet as a mouse’, ‘like a duck out of water’, ‘good as A) Romeo - Juliet
gold’ and ‘old as the hills’ are all examples of ----.
B) Prospero - Ariel
Choose the alternative which best completes the
given sentence. C) Viola - Sebastian

D) Othello - Iago
A) simile B) metaphor
E) Hamlet - Ophelia
C) personification D) symbol

E) imagery

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31. ----, which is the belief that people are responsible for 34. Which of the following gives all of the three
their own actions and experiences, was one of the most distinguishing features of a consonant?
influential philosophical ways of thinking of the post-war
period. A) Lip rounding, the height of the tongue and the part of
the language
Choose the alternative which best completes the
given sentence. B) The air coming from the lungs, the position of the
vocal cords and the oral cavity
A) Classicism B) Surrealism
C) Place of articulation, manner of articulation and
voicing state
C) Naturalism D) Neo-naturalism
D) Meaningfulness, its place in a syllable and its
E) Existentialism combination with vowels
E) Its audibility, its intelligibility and its contrast with
other consonants

32. Most poems of more than a few lines are divided into
----, organized by patterns of rhyme.
35. Which of the following is true of prefixes?
Choose the alternative which best completes the
given sentence. A) They are utilized for derivational purposes.

B) They follow suffixes.

A) free verse B) stanzas
C) They follow the base morpheme.
C) blank verse D) ballads
D) They do not have any function.
E) sections
E) They are used for inflectional purposes.

33. Which of the following is a property of language 36. Which of the following defines the basis of the
which states that human language enables specific grammar of all possible human languages
individuals to talk about other places and times? and constitutes the innate component of the human
A) Duality B) Productivity language faculty?

A) Functional grammar
C) Discreteness D) Creativity
B) Prescriptive grammar
E) Displacement
C) Descriptive grammar

D) Pedagogical grammar

E) Universal grammar

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37. What is the semantic relationship between the 41. Most language teachers currently tend to take on
words ‘cat’ and ‘animal’? ---- to language teaching partly because of the many
conflicting opinions among theorists, and partly because
A) They are the hyponyms of each other. of the need for building up a personalized teaching
methodology that may serve different learners with
B) The first one is the hyponym of the second one. different needs and abilities.
C) They are examples of binary antonymy. Choose the alternative which best completes the
given sentence.
D) The first one is the superordinate of the second one.

E) They prove that perfect synonymy is impossible. A) the lexical approach

B) the communicative approach

C) the eclectic approach

D) the cognitive approach

38. What is the term used to refer to pronunciation E) the holistic approach
features that reveal the influences of a speaker’s
first language or the geography of the speaker in
sociolinguistics?

A) Speech community B) Variation

C) Accent D) Discourse community 42. ---- is a slip of tongue; the learner knows the correct
form but has temporarily forgotten it. On the other hand,
E) Idiolect ---- occurs because the learner does not know the
correct form and so cannot produce it at this stage.

Choose the alternative which best completes the

given sentence.

A) Error / compensation

39. Which of the following is not an element of Grice’s B) Error / avoidance

Co-Operative Principle?
C) Mistake / avoidance
A) Quantity B) Quality C) Relevance
D) Avoidance / compensation

D) Implicature E) Manner E) Mistake / error

40. In the division of labour between the two

hemispheres of the brain, which of the following
fits into the right hemisphere?

A) Holistic processing B) Thinking and reasoning

C) Listening D) Speaking

E) Calculating

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43. In a reading lesson, the teacher may lead students to 46. ---- is a very general concept, which involves the
see beyond the literal meaning of words in a text, using consideration of the whole complex of philosophical,
a variety of clues to have students understand what the social and administrative factors which contribute to the
writer states implicitly. planning of an educational program. On the other hand,
---- is an instrument that offers a way and a view of
What is the subskill practiced in the case above? teaching a particular subject by providing tasks,
activities and a scheme to fulfill throughout the course.
A) Skimming B) Inferencing
Choose the alternative which best completes the
C) Scanning D) Guessing vocabulary given sentence.

E) Extensive reading A) Curriculum / course program

B) Syllabus / curriculum

C) Curriculum / syllabus

D) Course program / syllabus

44. Which of the following is not true of motivation in E) Syllabus / course program
the classroom setting?

A) Motivated students are usually those who participate

actively in class.

B) Cultural and age differences will determine the most

47. Which of the following objectives that appear in a
appropriate way for teachers to motivate students.
lesson plan designed for young learners of English
is unrealistic and difficult to achieve by the end of
C) Remarks teachers make about the forthcoming the lesson?
activities can lead to higher levels of interest on the
part of the students. A) Students will be able to speak about their
possessions and tell which one(s) they like most.
D) Co-operative learning activities are considered to
decrease the self-confidence of students. B) Students will be able to use the target vocabulary
correctly in related activities.

E) Being aware of the fact that their partners in the C) Students will be able to listen for specific information
group count on them can increase students’ to complete the missing words of the song.
motivation. D) Students will be able to read between the lines to
infer the message and share it with their peers.
E) Students will be able to write an email to invite a
friend to a birthday party.

45. Before the beginning of the academic year, English

teachers may give a test to their pupils to identify their
language proficiency levels. This test type is called ----.

Choose the alternative which best completes the

given sentence.
A) diagnostic test B) placement test

C) achievement test D) progress test

E) knowledge test

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48. Which of the following statements about English

language teaching is not valid for a young learners'
class?

A) Language use should be illustrated with objects and

gestures.

B) Songs, stories and games can be utilized to teach

listening.

C) Tasks should be based on structural patterns of the

target language and new vocabulary rather than
physical activities.

D) Colourful materials like postcards, wall charts and

calendars, which can help make meaning clear, are
likely to be encouraging.

E) Children have success with new tasks when located

within routines that are already familiar.

49. When the child acquiring his or her mother tongue

produces syllable-type sounds like ‘mu’, ‘ma’, ‘ba’
and ‘da’, at which stage is he or she?

A) Cooing B) Babbling C) One-word

D) Holophrastic E) Two-word

50. According to the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis, errors

in second language learning are often assumed to be
the result of ----.

Choose the alternative which best completes the

given sentence.

A) the intelligence deficiencies

B) the overapplication of second language rules

C) the language aptitude problems

D) the improper second language instruction

E) the interference from first language

TEST BİTTİ.
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ÖĞRETMENLİK ALAN BİLGİSİ TESTİ
YABANCI DİL (İNGİLİZCE) ÖĞRETMENLİĞİ
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1. D 26. B
2. C 27. C
3. E 28. A
4. A 29. B
5. C 30. D

6. B 31. E
7. A 32. B
8. D 33. E
9. B 34. C
10. E 35. A

11. D 36. E
12. B 37. B
13. A 38. C
14. E 39. D
15. A 40. A

16. C 41. C
17. B 42. E
18. D 43. B
19. B 44. D
20. E 45. A

21. A 46. C
22. A 47. D
23. C 48. C
24. D 49. B
25. E 50. E