Teaching R & W Quiz

Asking learners to read a text for comprehension is a common activity in class. Which of the following strands does this activity belong to?

• Meaning-focused input

• Meaning-focused output

• Language-focused learning

• Fluency development

What type of knowledge enables the reader to relate their prior knowledge and experiential background in text comprehension?

• Syntactic knowledge

• Genre knowledge

• General world knowledge

• Morphological knowledge

Teacher Bien asks his learners to use contextual clues to interpret the meaning of 'scurmptious' in this sentence: 'The giant ice cream sundae was so scrumptious that I ate the entire thing.'

• Example clues

• Explanation clues

• Antonym clues

• Definition clues

Which of the following is NOT a salient feature of successful extensive reading?

• Readers chose what they would like to read

• Readers read a lot of material in the target language

• Readers read a lot of easy material at their level

• Readers complete all the questions that test their text comprehension

The purpose of exposition text is to ___________.

• tell how something works

• persuade readers that something should or should not be the case

• provide readers with facts

• tell readers how to make or do something

An effective approach to increasing reading fluency and speed is ________.

• repeated reading

• intensive reading

• shared reading

• independent reading

"Reading beyond the lines" requires a level of understanding that is _______.

• literal

• interpretive

• evaluation

• projective

Which of the following patterns of organization is most suitable for personal recount?

• comparing and contrast

• chronological order

• from general to specific

• problem-solution pattern

Bottom-up processing of a text requires the reader to _________.

• draw on their past experience

• rely on their metalinguistic awareness and word recognition

• activate their schemata

• identify topic sentences