Reading and Listening Skills Quiz

What is the main difference between spoken language and written language?

• Written language allows for vagueness and ambiguity

• Spoken language is more formal

• Written language has more repetition

• Spoken language stays on the page

Which of the following is a characteristic of spoken language?

• Text often has little visual support

• Use of weak forms and contractions

• Punctuation and spaces show word boundaries

• All text is equally visible on the page

According to the traditional view of reading, what is the role of the reader?

• The reader decodes written symbols to make sense of the text

• The reader has no influence on the reading process

• The reader is the expert who comprehends what they read

• The reader is passive and reproduces meaning from the text

What is the cognitive view of reading comprehension based on?

• The reader is passive and reproduces meaning from the text

• The reader is at the heart of the reading process

• The reader is the expert who comprehends what they read

• The reader has no influence on the reading process

What is schema in reading comprehension?

• The information stored in the brain based on background knowledge and experiences

• A psycholinguistic guessing game

• A set of hierarchically ordered sub-skills

• The control and manipulation that a reader can have on the act of comprehending a text

What is the purpose of pre-reading activities?

• To encourage active reading

• To check students' comprehension

• To lead students to a deeper analysis of the text

• To make predictions about the content of the text

What is an example of a top-down listening activity?

• Reading a longer text for pleasure with emphasis on overall meaning

• Predicting the content of a listening activity beforehand

• Reading rapidly to find a specific piece of information

• Reading rapidly for the main points

How do you develop bottom-up listening skills?

• Encourage students to use their knowledge of the topic to help them understand the content

• Listen to conversations and identify where they take place

• Understand context to fill in the information gaps

• Pre-teach task-essential vocabulary

What is/are the purpose(s) of the follow-up in a skills lesson?

• To check students' comprehension

• To provide an oral or written response to the text

• To lead students to a deeper analysis of the text

• To focus on language

What is the main goal of the metacognitive view of reading?

• To rely on the formal features of the language for comprehension

• To enhance the role of background knowledge in reading comprehension

• To focus on the printed form of a text

• To define the control readers execute on their ability to understand a text