CLB and PBLA Review

What is PBLA?

• A learner-centred way of assessing language aligned to the CLB

• a fundamental part of the instructional cycle

• a principled, systematic process to engage teachers and students in dialogue to tell the story of the student's journey in learning English and meeting their academic and personal goals

• all of the above

PBLA reflects which CLB principles?

• CLB are competency-based

• CLB are task-based

• Tasks should be grounded in Community, school and work

• learning is learner-centred

• all of the above

The needs assessment occurs in the middle of the course

• True

• False

Learning reflections happen at the end of the course.

• true

• false

A key feature of PBLA is the end of term standardized progress report

• true

• false

The Language Companion has 6 sections.

• true

• false

Students are allowed to take the Language Companion home with them.

• true

• false

Any and all work done by the students should go into the Language Companion

• true

• false

RWT stands for Reading With Teacher

• true

• false

The PBLA process distinguishes between skill-using activity and skill-building activity. How would you categorize the following activity:

Explain to your teacher why you are late for class.

• skill-using

• skill-building

• neither

• both