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Letters emails and diaries are considered _____ genre of writing.  academic.  personal.  job-related.

1. A blueprint is ____________.  a detailed plan that shows the content and format of a test or any kind of assessment. It also includes the procedures and instructions for its administration.  an aspect of language use tasks that provide a way to describe the task with more precision than simply giving it a label.  a sets of TCs to systematically describe TLU tasks and assessment tasks.

The material included in the task that students are expected to process and respond is called:  The input.  The response.  The instructional task.

The following activity “Provide an encouraging testing environment” is an example of _____________.  Administrative procedures.  students’ performances.  assessment instructions.

The following task is an example of ___________. Test-taker hears: How much time did you take to do your homework? Test-taker writes or speaks: ____________________.  Open-ended response to a question.  Listening cloze.  Sentence repetition.

Which of the following options correspond to the scale that provides a single rating or score for a student’s assessment performance?.  A global scale.  A rating scale.  An analytic scale.

1. _____ is a strategy used by all readers to find relevant and specific information in a text.  Skimming.  Scanning.  The main idea.

Question-and-answer tasks can consist of one or two questions from an interviewer or they can make up a portion of a whole battery of questions and prompts in _____.  an oral interview.  a written conversation.  a short written respons.

Which task does not belong to imitative speaking?.  Repeat after me: beat (pause); bit (pause).  Listen to the verb past ending –ed in the following sentence then repeat: I worked at home yesterday. (students repeat).  Listen to the following personal questions and then provide your own answers. What´s your name? Where do you live? How old are you?.

Within Receptive Vocabulary Tasks, a teacher may ask students to______:  choose the letter of the word that indicate the same meaning of the word underlined a sentence.  fill in the blanks with the correct words to complete a sentence or sentences.  make a summary a brief summary after reading a story.

The difficulty to assess listening skill lies in the fact that _________:  listening examples may contain incomplete utterances, repetitions, hesitations, informal spoken English, tone, voice, accent, pronunciation.  lack of class time does not allow students to hear a piece of listening as many times as necessary, to achieve a complete understanding.  teachers are not experienced enough as to apply the necessary techniques.

1. Which of the following is not considered a basic type of listening?.  you simultaneously determine the type of speech event (monologue, interpersonal dialogue, transactional dialogue) that is being processed and attend to its context (who the speaker is, location, purpose) and the content of the message.  You recognize speech sounds and hold a temporary "imprint" of them in short-term memory.  Several tests that are combined to form an assessment.

To determine if someone is a proficient user of a language, people customarily ask, how well does the person ______. People rarely ask, "Do you understand and speak Spanish?.  speak the language.  understand the written language.  read the language.

_______ can be considered a gap filling task.  Complete the sentence with the appropriate verb form.  Answer the following question.  Identify the following statements as True or False as corresponds.

______ writing implies successful management of all the processes and strategies of writing for all purposes, up to the length of an essay, a term paper, a major research project report, or even a thesis.  Extrinsic.  Intensive.  Extensive.

Which of the following options is true about instructions?.  need to be long and complex.  are simple enough for students to understand.  are extensive not to take too much time.

A popular alternative to multiple-choice questions following reading passages is the age-old short-answer format. A reading passage is presented, and the test-taker ______, usually in written form, in a sentence or two.  reads questions that must be answered.  writes a different sheet of paper.  omits the answers and the questions.

A blueprint _________.  assures that the assessment provides sufficient performance from your students to yield consistent assessment records.  serves as a basis for creating additional assessment tasks.  is created by changing some of the TCs of the same assessment task template.

Which of the following options has examples of the areas of language ability the TLU task engages?.  Use accurate grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in speaking.  Describe animals in small groups of three students.  Describe daily routines from a picture.

A test in which you include an activity where the students are evaluated small talk, is said to be a _________ speaking task.  imitative.  intensive.  responsive.

. ____________ are aspects of language use tasks that help describe the task with more precision than just giving it a label.  Task characteristics.  Writing prompts.  Instructions.

1. Reading letters is a good example of _____.  personal reading.  job-related reading.  academic reading.

For_____________, the procedure for arriving at a score is to add up the number of points for correct responses, according to the scoring key.  limited production responses.  scoring method.  for extended production responses.

The following task is an example of ____________. Test-takers hear: "How much time did you take to do your homework?" Test-takers write or speak: I take one hour to do my homework.  cloze dictation.  open ended response to a question.  information transfer.

Which of the following tasks can be used to assess speaking?.  Picture-cued story-telling tasks.  Matching tasks.  Editing tasks.

1. The guide that specifies the content and format of an assessment is called _________.  blueprint.  content.  task.

Which preparations are necessary for materials and equipment?.  Pictures of animals, Recording Form, pen or pencil, table and three chairs for the teacher and the students.  The Speaking Corner in the classroom where the language class meets.  A description of the way students’ responses will be scored.

Assessment virtually always implies a “two-way street” between the ______: A set of questions or prompts is produced by the teacher and comprehended by the test taker.  Teacher and students.  Tests and items.  Chairman and test takers.

As a responsive listening task, a teacher may ask student to _____________.  properly respond to a question.  choose the correct picture.  take some notes from the listening passage.

The advantages of the multiple-choice tasks are that they are easy to _____ and score, and the disadvantages are that they are difficult to____, can promote guessing from test-takers, and are sometimes viewed as not being authentic language use.  administer - create.  guess - find.  create - apply.

____________________ listening involves test takers a limited quantity of aural input to process stretches of discourse such as short monologues for several minutes in order to scan for certain information.  Extensive.  Selective.  Responsive.

Which one is not considered a microskill of speaking?.  Produce reduced forms of words and phrases.  Use an adequate number of lexical units (words) to accomplish pragmatic purposes.  Appropriately accomplish communicative functions according to situations, participants, and goals.

Analyze the following task: Teast-takers hear: Is he living? Test-takers read? A: Is he leaving? B: Is he living? The example above is used to asses recognition of _______:  phonemic pair, consonants.  phonemic pair, vowels.  one-word stimulus.

When the teacher aims at assessing acceptable pronunciation only, _________ should be applied.  imitative speaking techniques.  dictation or cloze testing format.  paraphrasing.

Which of the following options is not true about preparing the test setting?.  Communicate the instructions.  Arrange a time, place, and the physical conditions for testing.  Make sure that the needed materials and equipment are available.

Change the tenses in a paragraph is an example of __________.  Dictarion and dicto-comp.  Grammatical transformation tasks.  Short.answer and sentence-completion tasks.

Using a fifteen minutes lecture as a stimulus, can be considered ___.  an authentic listening task.  a faked task.  too long a task.

For scoring extended production responses, the criteria for evaluating the quality of students’ responses are defined as several levels on one or more _________ of language ability.  scoring keys.  rating scales.  scoring.

A test in which you include an activity where the students are evaluated rhythm and intonation patterns, is said to be a/an _________ speaking task.  imitative.  intensive.  responsive.