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Language Learning and Teaching - CH. 3

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The affective filter controls how much ______:

a)

Language we understand when we hear and read.

b)

Comprehensible input gets through to the learner.

c)

ELL’s learn the target language.

d)

Learners rely on a first-noun strategy to understand “who did what to whom”.

2.

What is defined as “an approach to second language teaching in which content-area subjects and topics are used as the basis of instruction.”?

a)

Critical Pedagogy

b)

Natural Approach

c)

Content-Based Instruction

d)

Scaffolding

3.

Oral or written language that is slightly above a second language learner's current level of proficiency in the second language and thus provides linguistic input that leads to second language acquisition. Is known as what?

a)

Comprehensible Input

b)

Progress

c)

Sociocultural Perspectives

4.

Scaffolding is the provided support a teacher gives to help the learner....

a)

Develop new skills

b)

Learn a new concept

c)

Both answers apply

5.

Check all that apply: The core communication skills that ELLs can and need to develop within the ZPD are

a)

Elaborating and Clarifying

b)

Supporting ideas with evidence

c)

Building on or challenging ideas

d)

Paraphrasing

e)

Synthesizing

6.

The level of language proficiency students need to successfully comprehend and perform grade-level academic tasks. Is known as....

a)

Communicative Language Teaching

b)

Dynamic Assessment

c)

Academic Language Proficiency

d)

Comprehensible Output

7.

Zone of proximal development (ZDP) is known as a domain or metaphoric space where children can reach a higher level of knowledge and performance with the support of an adult or other knowledgeable person.

a)

False

b)

True

8.

Language teaching approaches, methods, strategies, and techniques that focus on helping students develop communicative competence is known as...

a)

Content based instruction (CBI)

b)

Scaffolding

c)

Communicative language teaching (CLT)

d)

None of the above

9.

Communicative Competence is the ability to use a language to communicate effectively and appropriately with other speakers of the language.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

**Not a question, just a statement** The stages of L2 Acquisition are:

a)

1. Preproduction

b)

2. Early Production

c)

3. Speech Emergence

d)

4. Intermediate

e)

5. Advanced