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When working with receptive skills materials, the teacher needs to be sure to
teach vocabulary at the conclusion of the exercise.
teach vocabulary initialy through the detailed questions
pre-teach the vocabulary.
Scanning is
when students read quickly for specific details.
when students read quickly for the main idea.
when students practice speed reading to increase the number of words per minute they can process.
The best way to begin comprehension work in teaching a vocabulary word is
to ask students to check the dictionary.
define it on the board.
elicit meaning from the students to see if someone already knows it.
Which reading strategy is related to identifying words that are similar in L2 and L1?
Identifying the text type
Identifying cognates
Identifying communicative purposes
Identifying non-verbal elements
The strategy of SKIMMING can be explained as:
observing the text quickly just to detect the general topic, without worrying about the details.
quickly looking through the text until you find the information you want.
reading the text carefully in order to learn new vocabulary and structures
none of the above
The strategy of SCANNING can be explained as:
observing the text quickly just to detect the general topic, without worrying about the details.
quickly looking through the text until you find the information you want.
reading the text carefully in order to learn new vocabulary and structures
none of the above
In a good reading lesson, the tasks must follow as to require the use of strategies in the order:
Full reading, skimming, scanning;
Skimming, Scanning, full reading;
Scanning, Skimming, full reading
Scanning, Full reading, Skimming.
Concerning Listening, in general a lesson should follow these steps, respectively:
1 Play recording/ 2 Set Questions / 3 Check / 4 Play recording again if necessary.
1. Set questions / 2. Check / Play recording again if necessary / Set questions
1 Set questions / 2 Play recording / 3 Check / 4 Play recording again if necessary.
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Language Skills
English language
The four language skills of English
Four skills
To activate Schemata, Teachers should provide students with information or examples they are unfamiliar with.
False
True
When students are not intereted in the topic, as teachers we should...
Vary topics and genre
Activate schemata
Find the topic material which will involve them
All of the above
According to Chomsky (1965), which of the following statements is true about competence?
It is the ability to use language appropriately in real situations.
It is the ability to master lexical items and rules of morphology, syntax, sentence grammar, semantics, and phonology.
It is the intuitive knowledge of the underlying grammatical system that all native speakers of a language have.
The ability to form a sentence from the following words: I have a bicylce refers to
grammatical competence
discourse competence
strategic competence
Knowing how to use and respond to language appropriately given the setting, the topic and the relationship among people communicating refers to which competence below?
discourse competence
sociolinguistic competence
strategic competence
Read the following conversation.
Speaker 1: They want to offer me a position.
Speaker 2: They will not?
Speaker 1: No, they want.
Speaker 2: Ah, they want. I see.
What communicative competence does the conversation exemplify?
discourse competence
sociolinguistic competence
strategic competence
Which communicative competence can be seen in the two sentences below?
It rained heavily yesterday. Therefore, the whole event was canceled.
discourse competence
sociolinguistic competence
strategic competence
The ability to use Yours faithfully at the end of a letter of scholarship application instead of Best wishes refers to which competence below:
discourse competence
sociolinguistic competence
strategic competence
The ability to add the prefix un to some adjectives so that you can create opposite meanings refers to
grammatical competence
sociolinguistic competence
strategic competence
When you know that you have been misunderstood in a conversation and try to repair that communicative problem, you are demonstrating your:
grammatical competence
sociolinguistic competence
strategic competence
Reading is an active skill because
Students have to understand the general idea of the text
Students have to understand the meaning of the words andthe main idea to agree or disagree with the text
Students can choose what they want to read
A listening strategy considered as listener-based and the listener uses background knowledge to make sense of what he/she is listening to.
Top-down
Bottom-up
Intensive
Extensive
In what listening strategy should we categorize the following:
listening for specific details
Top-down
Bottom-up
In what listening strategy should we categorize the following:
drawing inferences
Top-down
Bottom-up
In what listening strategy should we categorize the following:
making predictions
Top-down
Bottom-up
Accuracy is about
getting your message across
turn-taking in conversation
communication efectiveness
Grammar rules, pronunciation and vocabulary
It is fluency when
you are thinking about your mistakes
You don't care about your mistakes
Fluency is more concerned with
the speed at which you speak
the grammar mistakes you can make
Is the following fluency-focused or accuracy-focused?
"Students spend 5–10 minutes preparing a 3-minute spoken description of their dream house.
They may make notes but should not be reading from a script.
Place students in pairs and have them exchange descriptions.
Shuffle the partners, and ask students to deliver the same description, but in 2.5 minutes.
Shuffle again, and give them 2 minutes. "
Accuracy-focused
Fluency-focused
Which of the following is/are NOT typical of an accuracy-focused activity?
Teachers draw students' attention to details of how we construct a grammatical form
Teachers model, repeat, and give feedback.
Teachers help students to notice the gap between the correct and incorrect language.
There is no correction or interruption.
