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A language teacher enters into casual discussion with the class for a few moments to encourage group
social interaction before returning to teaching the day's lesson. What is the term for this? - ✔✔class-
centered teaching
A syllabus is made up of different elements. The element that refers to how teachers and learners work
on the selected substance of the course is which of the following? - ✔✔methodology
Any special register of speech used by care-takers to assist infants and young children to learn their
mother-tongue is called - ✔✔child-directed speech
Which of the following transcriptions best represents the way a native speaker of standard American
English would pronounce the word "now? - ✔✔nauw
"Noticing" a new language means that learners are paying attention to the ___,____, and_____ of the
language - ✔✔form, use and meaning
Functional load is - ✔✔the use made of a linguistic contrast in the sound system. The more minimal pairs
(pairs of words distinguished by one phoneme only) a contrast between two phonemes distinguishes,
the greater its functional load.
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) - ✔✔- emphasizes interaction among students and among the
four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) to work on authentic tasks. One of the goals of CLT is
to produce anxiety-free learning as much as possible. A criticism of this method is that there should be
more of an emphasis on teaching grammar and linguistic structures.
You are an ESOL teacher who is using an integrative approach to teach English language skills and a
teaching method that includes presentation, practice and production. What ESOL method are you using
to model your teaching strategies? - ✔✔communicative language teaching
, You are a teacher who is monitoring your students in your classroom using a formative assessment. You
are doing this by checking on students while they are working, collecting work samples and checking
their work against rubrics. Using a summative assessment would involve which of the following? -
✔✔use of scoring criteria - points are assigned to each question
The ESL teacher is checking to see what types of programs are available under LPAC (Language
Proficiency Assessment Committee). What types of programs does LPAC ensure are available to
students? - ✔✔It ensures instructional and support programs are made available to ELL students.
When a student is in a percentile or a rank of other students, what is the type of criterion being used? -
✔✔norm-referenced
The idea that language does not exist in isolation but is linked to the society in which it is used is called
what? - ✔✔sociocultural context
Embedding is the process of - ✔✔inserting one sentence into another sentence.
"We told the teacher that WE LIKED THE WAY SHE TOLD THE STORY"
What would be a tenet of a "functional" syllabus? - ✔✔Assumes learner builds a repertoire
What would be a tenet of an "informal" syllabus? - ✔✔assumes a learner accumulates and synthesizes
the target language and all its components
What are the four major processes of speech production? - ✔✔1. Conceptualization (planning the
message content)
2. formulation (finding the right words and phrases for the message)
3. articulation (involvement of the articulatory organs like the tongue and lips)
4. self-monitoring (identifying and self-correcting mistakes.
Keeping a vocabulary notebook that allows multiple ways of retrieving words should contain four
important pieces of information: - ✔✔1. a target word
2. a translation
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A language teacher enters into casual discussion with the class for a few moments to encourage group
social interaction before returning to teaching the day's lesson. What is the term for this? - ✔✔class-
centered teaching
A syllabus is made up of different elements. The element that refers to how teachers and learners work
on the selected substance of the course is which of the following? - ✔✔methodology
Any special register of speech used by care-takers to assist infants and young children to learn their
mother-tongue is called - ✔✔child-directed speech
Which of the following transcriptions best represents the way a native speaker of standard American
English would pronounce the word "now? - ✔✔nauw
"Noticing" a new language means that learners are paying attention to the ___,____, and_____ of the
language - ✔✔form, use and meaning
Functional load is - ✔✔the use made of a linguistic contrast in the sound system. The more minimal pairs
(pairs of words distinguished by one phoneme only) a contrast between two phonemes distinguishes,
the greater its functional load.
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) - ✔✔- emphasizes interaction among students and among the
four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) to work on authentic tasks. One of the goals of CLT is
to produce anxiety-free learning as much as possible. A criticism of this method is that there should be
more of an emphasis on teaching grammar and linguistic structures.
You are an ESOL teacher who is using an integrative approach to teach English language skills and a
teaching method that includes presentation, practice and production. What ESOL method are you using
to model your teaching strategies? - ✔✔communicative language teaching
, You are a teacher who is monitoring your students in your classroom using a formative assessment. You
are doing this by checking on students while they are working, collecting work samples and checking
their work against rubrics. Using a summative assessment would involve which of the following? -
✔✔use of scoring criteria - points are assigned to each question
The ESL teacher is checking to see what types of programs are available under LPAC (Language
Proficiency Assessment Committee). What types of programs does LPAC ensure are available to
students? - ✔✔It ensures instructional and support programs are made available to ELL students.
When a student is in a percentile or a rank of other students, what is the type of criterion being used? -
✔✔norm-referenced
The idea that language does not exist in isolation but is linked to the society in which it is used is called
what? - ✔✔sociocultural context
Embedding is the process of - ✔✔inserting one sentence into another sentence.
"We told the teacher that WE LIKED THE WAY SHE TOLD THE STORY"
What would be a tenet of a "functional" syllabus? - ✔✔Assumes learner builds a repertoire
What would be a tenet of an "informal" syllabus? - ✔✔assumes a learner accumulates and synthesizes
the target language and all its components
What are the four major processes of speech production? - ✔✔1. Conceptualization (planning the
message content)
2. formulation (finding the right words and phrases for the message)
3. articulation (involvement of the articulatory organs like the tongue and lips)
4. self-monitoring (identifying and self-correcting mistakes.
Keeping a vocabulary notebook that allows multiple ways of retrieving words should contain four
important pieces of information: - ✔✔1. a target word
2. a translation
