Assessment final exam

Is your obligation as a teacher to triangulate your measurements: consider at least two (or more) performances and/or contexts before drawing a conclusion.

• True

• False

Multiple measures will always give you a more reliable and valid assessment than a

single measure.

• True

• False

Reading and listening

• involve receiving information and so they are called the receptive skills.

• are known as the productive skills because they involve producing words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs.

The (a)   skills are speaking and writing, because learners doing these need to produce language.

Selective listening is...

• Listening to a relatively short stretch oflanguage (a greeting, question, command, comprehension check, etc.) in order to make an equally short response.

• processing stretches of discourse such as short monologues for several minutes in order to "scan" for certain information.

Listening to develop a top-down, global understanding of spoken

language is called (a)   listening.

1. Discriminate among the distinctive sounds of English.

2. Retain chunks of language of different lengths in short-term memory.

• MIcro skills

• Macro skills

1. 1.Recognize the communicative functions of utterances, according to situations, participants, goals.

2. Infer situations, participants, goals using real-world knowledge.

• Micro skills

• Macro skills

From a pragmatic view of language performance, listening and speaking are almost always closely interrelated.

• True

• False

Speaking is a productive skill that can´t be directly and empirically

observed.

• True

• False