Test on Speciality

What is academic writing?

• The writing that communicates ideas, information and research to the wider community

• The writing that is written only by professors

• The writing that includes coherence and cohesion

• The writing that is taught in institutional places

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the structure of formal writing?

• Introduction, body, conclusion

• Topic sentence, supporting details, and concluding sentence

• Opening statement, grabber and discourse markers

• Cohesion, cohesion and linking devices

What is the paragraph?

• It should be as long or as short as it needs to be to express the main idea

• It is the first part of the essay

• It is part of the essay

• it needs to be to express the main idea

What are the basic ways of teaching writing skills?

• The product approach, the process approach

• Guided teaching, free writing

• Individually, group work

• Caption writing, running dictation

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What techniques are there in the product approach?

• Constructing paragraphs from frames, tables, and other guides

• writing thesis statements and topic sentences

• Group drafting, quick writing and jumbled paragraph

• group correction activities, rewriting exercises, teacher feedback.

What principles are there in the product approach?

• The writing has often been synonymous with the teaching of grammar or sentence structure

• This approach starts from an examination of what good writers actually do as they write

• Students should produce complete (not isolated sentences), contextualised pieces of writing

• Students should spend classroom time on writing (not just a homework activity)

What principles are there in the process approach?

• New role of teachers: they act as facilitators, organizing writing experiences that enable the learner to develop effective composing strategies

• Students do not usually learn from their mistakes

• Correct sentence structure is an essential component of writing; grammatical skills receive considerable emphasis

• This view of writing reflects the principies of audiolingual theory which saw writing as the written form of spoken language

What are the techniques of the process approach?

• Organising three parts of the written assessment: planning, drafting and revising stages

• Providing models to which learners make minor changes and substitutions

• Producing a text through answering a set of questions

• Sentence combining: developing complex sentences following different rules of combination

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What's classroom observation?

• It's an act of watching a teacher's performance in their classroom or learning environment to provide the teachers with relevant feedback

• Students' active participation in class, assessing them, engaging them into group work

• It is classroom environment, teaching and learning process, interaction between teacher and students

• It's a planning of the lesson, delivery of activities and a good rapport between a teacher and learners

What's the purpose of classroom observation?

• To improve teacher's ability to teach and improves students' outcomes

• To test teacher's knowledge and teaching methods and techniques

• To check teacher's preparedness and skills in conducting the class

• To  investigate teacher's competence in using ICT