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One reading strategy, ___, involves asking oneself if what he/she is reading makes sense and adjusting ideas accordingly. making inferences. self-monitoring. use of background knowledge.

The ___ to teaching EFL writing involves more than one draft and revision. product approach. process approach. model approach.

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of digital literacy?. Finding and selecting information. Monitoring others' communication. Effective communication.

Guessing the meaning of a word from the context is an example of ___. a metacognitive strategy. a compensatory strategy. a memory strategy.

Students must learn to write to ___. communicate. describe. judge.

In the Language Triptych, language OF learning is...?. that which emerges as a result of learning and skills development. that which students need to access new knowledge (including key vocabulary of the unit). that which students need to operate in the learning environment.

The ___ of a writing task should be clear, as it determines the context and tone. model. process. audience.

Which of the following is NOT a difficulty associated with monologues?. There are high linguistic demands to be clear, concise and coherent. The stress of the situation often causes inhibition. The speaker must think quickly to respond to the interlocutor.

If the objective of a video activity is listening comprehension, subtitles should be ___. always off. always on. off for the first 1–2 viewings.

Which of the following is NOT an example of scaffolding?. The use of dictionaries. Labelling visual aids. Reducing the amount of content to be learned.

In the classroom, predicting activities serve to help students improve their ____. speaking skills. top-down processing skills. bottom-up processing skills.

Which of the following does a good listener NOT do?. makes use of information provided by the context of the situation. asks the speaker to slow down if necessary. allows himself to become anxious.

The ___ to reading suggests that readers process a text from the most basic levels to the more complex ones. interactive approach. top-down approach. bottom-up approach.

___ contains a single scale with all evaluation criteria considered together for a single score. An analytic rubric. A criterion rubric. A holistic rubric.

Teacher feedback should always follow ___. peer review. students' self-editing. the rough draft.

___ help create a purpose for communicating in English and therefore promote authentic communication. PowerPoint presentations. Arts materials. Board games.

___ is generally spontaneous, connected to a shared context, and expresses pragmatic features through intonation. Written language. Informal language. Spoken language.

The ___ sub-skills of speaking include planning and negotiation of meaning. grammatical. perception. interactive.

___ describes any way language is conditioned to the complete set of characteristics of a person. Variation. Register. Speech community.

___ is a classroom activity that asks students what they already know, want to know and learned from an informational text. K-W-L method. Procedural prompts. 5 W's and H.

In Kachru's model of the spread of English, the middle circle includes: those countries in which English works as an international language. native-English speaking areas. those non-native contexts where English is an institutional component and has an important status as a second language.

The _________ is a common strategy that allows students to think about a complex question and collaborate with a partner before sharing their response with the entire group: plenary. Think-pair-share. Round Cycle.

According to the CLIL approach, content and language learning will be effective even if learners are not cognitively engaged since learning is integrated: True. False.

The approach that involves a one-way flow of information from the teacher or the textbook to the student is: teacher-centered. peer-centered. authority-centered.

Studies have shown that CLIL students increase their confidence and competence in foreign language use through improved vocabulary learning skills and grammatical awareness. True. False.

The process of developing a correct use of the language mostly depends on exposure. True. False.

The sets of concepts, skills, and attitudes that contribute to the achievement of curriculum objectives are: the learning results. the contents. the competences.

The type of motivation affecting language learning that comes from external factors such as rewards is: outer. extrinsic. external.

One reading strategy, ___, involves asking oneself questions while reading to consider the author's intentions. predicting. self-monitoring. making inferences.

___ are cognitive abilities that a person gains through training. Reading skills. Reading strategies. Reading interests.

___ includes tasks that focus on language work, such as linking sentences and rewriting sentences. Communicative writing. Pre-communicative writing. The writing process.

___ describes any way language is conditioned to the complete set of characteristics of a person. Speech community. Register. Variation.

Students must learn to write to ___. describe. judge. communicate.

Which of the following classroom tasks has a social or cultural focus?. analyzing and practicing vocabulary. analyzing stance markers. analyzing and practicing formality in an interaction.

The main goal of the ___ to teaching EFL writing is to learn to write different types of texts. process approach. product approach. model approach.

As a teacher who teaches writing, usually the largest amount of time is spent ___. explaining the writing process. researching ideas. giving feedback.

____ focus on trying to solve the communication problem that the speaker is facing. Avoidance strategies. Transfers. Achievement strategies.

___ is a personal preference for word choice, syntactic structures and pronunciation. Style. register. variation.

Assessing ___ is measuring the reading skills acquired over a period of time. to support students' learning. classroom learning. reading proficiency.

A ___ is a graphic organizer that shows similarities and differences between two concepts. binary key. mind map. Venn diagram.

Lexical substitution with an umbrella term is an example of ___. guessing strategy. reduction strategy. paraphrase strategy.

___ listening to a text, a teacher may ask students to do further research. before. after. while.

___ are those that involve the L2 and require mental processing of the language. Indirect learning strategies. Direct learning strategies. Reduction strategies.

The ___ to teaching EFL writing avoids errors by controlling the writing process closely. process approach. product approach. model approach.

___ always precedes ___ in the process of language acquisition. Reading … writing. Writing … reading. Speaking … writing.

Which of the following is NOT an appropriate way to employ a foreign language assistant?. Allow him/her to teach alone. Put him/her in charge of routines. Ask about their home country.

___ are those that do not involve the L2 and include metacognitive strategies. Direct learning strategies. Compensatory strategies. Indirect learning strategies.

The ___ to reading suggests readers sample from the text to confirm predictions. top-down approach. bottom-up approach. interactive approach.

___ is a person being spoken to with limited rights to respond. participant. addressee. overhearer.

____ is using two languages in the same conversation. Codeswitching. Approximation. Circumlocution.

___ is having a quick look at a text to grasp main ideas. skimming. scanning. unaware reading.

The main goal of ___ language is to convey information. listener-related. transactional. interactional.

___ can be defined as knowing how to speak given the situation. conversational implicature. pragmatic competence. sociolinguistic competence.

The ___ sub-skill of speaking involves turn-taking. negotiation of meaning. planning. management of interaction.

___ include partial solutions that result in loss of information. Reduction strategies. Achievement strategies. Learning strategies.

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of ICTs for EFL reading?. develop independence. allow collaboration. avoid criticism from peers.

When responding to students' writing, teachers should correct spelling and grammar mistakes ___. as often as possible. after a first read-through. as they first read the text.

___ is a classroom activity that gives students a series of questions about a narrative text to help them identify the main characters, setting and other essential items. Procedural prompts. Intra-act procedure. K-L-W method.

___ is a phenomenon of the direct link between language and context, in which context is essential to the utterance. e.g. "We must finish this today.". Deixis. Conversational implicature. A speech act.

Creating mental images to link to language is an example of ___. a affective strategy. a cognitive strategy. a memory strategy.

___, one of the two sub-skills of oral comprehension, involves recognizing phonemes and compounding them into words and then sentences. Listening. Cognition. Perception.

In the European Language Portfolio, speaking skills are divided between spoken production and ___. Spoken interaction. Communicative strategies. Aural reception.

___ describes what happens in everyday speech when a consonant at the end of a word is connected with a vowel at the beginning of the next word. Intrusion. Elision. Linkage.

___ is a classroom activity that ask students what they already know, want to know and learned from an informational text. 5 W's and H. K-W-L method. Procedural prompts.

The ___ stage of writing is to check for problems or mistakes. thinking. planning. revision.

Which of the following is NOT a factor that affects a student's choice of communication strategies. gender. geographical location. attitudes and beliefs.

The use of mnemonic devices is an example of ___. a memory strategy. a cognitive strategy. a affective strategy.

The ___ to reading suggests that readers process a text from the most basic levels to the more complex ones. bottom-up approach. interactive approach. top-down approach.

A ___ is a school in a different country that allows for correspondence and joint projects between groups of students. twin school. bilingual school. foreign language school.

Joining an international social club for opportunities to practice English is an example of ___. a metacognitive strategy. an affective strategy. a cognitive strategy.

A ___ is one that includes simplified definitions and, often, grammatical and linguistic information. bilingual dictionary. monolingual dictionary. learner's dictionary.

Codeswitching is usually done by employing ___ in another language. clauses. phrases. single words.

Which of the following is NOT an effective way to focus on pragmatic and sociolinguistic awareness in the classroom?. the analysis of the context of a text. the use of authentic materials. the study of historical figures in English-speaking countries.

Which of the following is NOT an element of politeness?. Social distance between speaker and hearer. Physical distance between speaker and hearer. Power relationship between speaker and hearer.

The three main composing processes that writers go through are: thinking, planning and production. structuring, planning and revision. planning, formulation and revision.

When learning to write, typical mistakes may include ___, when we add an extra letter or letters (untill instead of until). transposition. substitution. insertion.

Which of the following is most compatible with developing pragamatic competence in the classroom?. Content-based instruction. the Communicative Approach. the Grammar-Translation Method.

___ is making a promise, offer, etc. when uttering a sentence due to the sentence's conventional force. A locutionary act. An illocutionary act. A perlocutionary act.

Which of the following classroom tasks has a linguistic focus?. analyzing and practicing the use of discourse markers and fillers. analyzing and practicing the use of politeness in an interaction. identifying and using possible cultural reasoning behind language.

Which of the following is NOT an appropriate way to adapt authentic materials to ease students' comprehension?. Include a representative photograph of the topic. Provide a summary in Spanish. Simplify difficult or complex sentence structures.

Using items from what the interlocutor has just said is an example of ___. a paraphrase strategy. a compensatory strategy. a cooperative strategy.

Writing tasks and activities in the classroom should engage students in ___. problem-solving behavior. becoming effective readers. focusing on grammar.