EDU410 Midterm Past Papers

TEACHING OF LITERACY SKILLS · EDU 410 · MOST IMPORTANT SHORT QUESTIONS · (FALCONS ACADEMY) · LESSON 01 TO 22

Q:What is literacy?

The term literacy refers:

1. often mainly to reading,
2. sometimes to reading and writing,
3. more rarely, to reading, writing, speaking and listening

Q:What are the five facts about litracy skills?

1. Reading aloud is vital.
2. Literacy saves lives.
3. Literacy teaches you to own and value your own story.
4. Literacy gets you to the goal.
5. Literacy empowers.

Q:Importance Of Literacy Skills In Classrooms?

Development of literacy skills is strongly connected to the development of a country. Supporting young children’s language and literacy development has long been considered a practice that produces strong readers and writers later in life, who then contribute positively in the country’s development and growth. Literacy skills are also strongly connected to classroom learning, which again ultimately contributes to the country’s development and growth.

Q:What is Language? FALCONS ACADEMY

Language is a system of communication using sounds or symbols that enables us to express our feelings, thoughts, ideas and experiences. Language is the basic key for communication.

Q: Phonology?

Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and used in natural languages. It is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.

Q:Morphology

Morphology is the study of how things are put together, like the make-up of animals and plants, or the branch of linguistics that studies the structure of words.

Q: Syntax?

“Syntax” is a Greek word, which means “order”.it is the sequence in which words are put together to form sentences. In English, the usual sequence is subject, verb, and object (Note: Syntactic languages, such as English, use word order to indicate word relationships).

Q:SEMANTICS

The most general definition of semantics is that it is "the study of linguistic meaning", or "the study of the meaning of words and sentences"

Q:Pragmatics

Pragmatics is the study of "how to do things with words", or "the study of the contribution of context to meaning"

Q:What is language learning?

Language learning, on the other hand, is the result of direct instructions in the rules of language. It certainly is not an age-appropriate activity for your young learners. In language learning, students have conscious knowledge of the new language and can talk about that knowledge.

Q:What is language acquisition

Language acquisition is the process by which children acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate in a natural way and not consciously.

Q:What is first language?

It is the language that a person acquires in early childhood because it is spoken in the family and/or it is the language of the region where the child lives. Also known as mother tongue, first language, arterial language, or L1.Native language is the one that the child learns from their parents in home environment.

Q:What is second language?

It is the language other than the mother tongue that a person or community uses for public communication, especially in trade, higher education, and administration. It is a language learned by a person after his or her native language, esp. as a resident of an area where it is in general use.

Q:What is forien language?

A foreign language is a language originating from another country. It is also a language not spoken very commonly in the native country of the person.

Q: What is a Code? FALCONS ACADEMY

Code is the message conveyed through communication (read, view, listen) and encode (write, speak, present) – uses alphabet, sounds, spelling conventions, sentence structure, etc.

Q:Student Centered Classrooms?

Student-centered learning is focused on each student’s interests, abilities, and learning styles, placing the teacher as a facilitator of learning.