Teaching Receptive Skills - Teaching Reading

Which is NOT the purpose of test and teaching in comprehension tasks?

• Raise the students’ expectations

• Help students tease out meanings

• Provoke an examination of the reading or listening passage

• Transferring information

Which is the first step of finding word meanings?

• Share their list with another student and come up with a new joint list of only five words.

• Look for the meanings of their words in dictionaries and/or we can answer questions about the words which the groups have decided on.

• Individual students write down five words from the text they most want to know the meaning of.

....................... often takes place outside the class and has traditionally been encouraged not for language study so much as for practising reading, having a pleasurable experience and gradually acquiring language.

• Extensive reading

• Intensive reading

One of the most important ways of .......... with a text is to ask them whether they like it and why – or why not.

• encouraging student engagement

• transferring information

• ‘interrogating’ the text

• using reading as a springboard

We can’t give a time limit of five minutes for post-reading vocabulary enquiry, whether this involves dictionary use, language corpus searches, or questions to the teacher.

• True

• False

One way of helping our students is to pre-teach vocabulary that occurs in a reading or listening text.

• True

• False

When our students have read a text, we can use ............... for any number of follow-up activities and text-related tasks.

• interrogate the text

• use reading as a springboard

• encourage student engagement

• transfer the information

What are the purposes of test and teaching in comprehension tasks?

• Raise the students’ expectations

• Help them tease out meanings

• Provoke an examination of the reading or listening passage

• Bring students to a greater understanding of language and text construction

By the simple expedient of having students work in pairs to agree on whether a statement about part of a text is true or false, the ............... help each individual (through conversation and comparison) to understand something.

• appropriate challenge

• comprehension items

The procedure for teaching receptive skills generally starts with ..............

• comprehension/response task

• text-related task

• lead-in

• reading / listening