Literacy Academic Language

The term, "VERY OFTEN" may be improved using a more appropriate academic word which is:

• frequently

• seriously

• rarely

• stubbornly

Academic writing is:

• The process of breaking down ideas

• About what you think and what evidence has contributed to that thinking.

• Using deductive reasoning, formal voice, and third person point-of-view

• All of the answers are correct

Plagiarism is:

• a dangerous disease

• an academic offense

• an academic website

Writing academic papers requires deliberate, thorough and careful thought. Therefore, what should one do to achieve a well-crafted academic essa

• One must depend on his/her own opinions alone.

• One must not consult the Internet for unsure sources.

• One must conduct a research on the topic at hand.

• One must depend highly on the Internet for easy information access.

An academic essay must use appropriate vocabulary words but not too pretentious, highfalutin words. Which among these words is the simplified version of the term, "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"?

• beautiful; pretty

• extraordinarily good; wonderful

• exquisite; one-of-a-kind

• hardworking; industrious

A salient feature of the MTB MLE framework that emphasizes the importance of the development of reading proficiency

• Literacy

• Prior Knowledge

• Cognitive Development

• Scaffolding

What is literacy?

• It's more than the ability to read and write, for sure.

• Ability to read & write correctly following grammatical rules

• Writing without many mistakes and reading without hesitating

• There is no unified definition

What are the essential elements of a literacy development approach or program?

• Phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency

• Reading, writing, grammar, spelling, and punctuation

• Biographical, fundamental, and research-based principles

• Sociocultural, linguistic, cognitive, academic

What is transfer theory (Cummins, 2000)?

• Transfer theory is built on the idea that the literacy and language skills a CLD student has in the native language are transferable and can aid in his or her acquisition of second language literacy skills. Instrumental to this theory are the connections CLD students make to existing schemas when reading.

• Transfer theory is build on the idea that languages that are similar to each other are easier to learn than languages that do not share many similarities. For example, German speakers learners will have an easier time learning English than speakers of Spanish or Chinese.

• Transfer theory refers to the amount of  words that you can easily translate from one language to the other.

• It is a theory that explains that all the mistakes a student makes are due to the transfer from their native language.

What are the fundamental domains of literacy?

• Speaking, listening, reading, and writing

• Semantics, morphology, syntax, pragmatics

• Fluidity, punctuation, grammar, spelling

• Sociocultural, linguistic, cognitive, academic