Assessing Language Skills (Listening, Reading, Speaking)

Which of the following is a basic type of listening?

• Intensive

• Responsive

• Performance

• Competence

What are the microskills of listening related to?

• Detecting sentence constituents

• Infer situations, participants, and goals using real-world knowledge

• Recognizing communicative functions of utterances

• Recognizing cohesive devices in spoken discourse

What is a macroskill of listening?

• Recognizing English stress patterns

• Recognize cohesive devices in spoken discourse

• Infer situations, participants, and goals using real-world knowledge

• Recognizing reduced forms of words

Which of the following is a type of intensive listening task?

• Appropriate response to a question

• Morphological pair, (-ed ending)

• Open-ended response to a question

• Paraphrase Recognition

What is the purpose of using a battery of listening strategies?

• Detecting keywords

• Guessing the meaning of words from context

• All of the above

• Appealing for help

What are the two fundamental strategies for processing separate letters, words, and phrases in reading?

• Left-right and right-left strategies

• Vertical and horizontal strategies

• 
  Top-down and bottom-up strategies

• 
  Forward and backward strategies

What is the result of the interaction between a reader and a text in the reading process?

• 
  Comprehension

• Process

• Product

• Understanding

What does it mean to comprehend the words, the meaning of a sentence, and the organization of a text?

• 
  Reading beyond the lines

• 
  Literal understanding

• 
  

  Reading between the lines

• 
  Level of comprehension

What are the component elements in the fluent reading process according to Brown?

• Automatic recognition skills, Vocabulary and structural knowledge, Formal discourse structure knowledge, Content/world background knowledge

• Listening skills, Speaking skills, Writing skills, Grammar knowledge

• 
  Reading skills, Math skills, Science skills, History knowledge

• Art skills, Music skills, Drama skills, Physical education knowledge

What type of reading task focuses on formal aspects of language such as lexical, grammatical, and a few discourse features?

• 
  Selective reading tasks

• 
  Perceptive reading tasks

• 
  Extensive reading tasks

• Interactive reading tasks