ENG515 Midterm Past Papers Spring 2025

ENG515

Mid-Term

ABSTRACT This comprehensive collection of notes is accurately crafted to empower students to excel academically, ensuring they achieve a minimum of 80% marks in their examinations. The content is organized with clarity and precision, focusing on key concepts, critical analyses, and practical applications tailored to the syllabus. These notes serve as a reliable resource for both thorough preparation and last-minute revision. Designed to inspire confidence and mastery, this guide is an essential tool for students striving for academic excellence.

Maha Malik

Spring 2025

Q. Pragmatic Competence

Involves understanding the illocutionary force of an utterance by using textual clues like syntax, typography, and vocabulary. It's essential for interpreting written text when context is missing.

Q. Syntax in L2 (Second Language)

Syntax helps reading by providing grammatical feedback, allowing self-correction. Even partial syntactic knowledge supports comprehension when paired with lexical and background knowledge.

Q. How to Improve Reading Skills

Use strategies like predicting, previewing, skimming, and setting a purpose; also engage in extensive reading, speed reading, and paired reading.

Q. Define Schema / Schema Theory

Schema refers to prior knowledge that aids comprehension. It's both content and form-related, and essential in interpreting new texts. Schema theory argues that meaning is constructed by the reader, not carried by the text.

Q. Activities for Word Recognition

Includes reading aloud, repeated reading, paired reading, and use of flashcards. Emphasizes frequent, regular patterns and high-frequency word practice.

Q. Story Grammar / Grammar Story

Includes elements like setting, initiating event, internal response, attempt, consequence, and reaction – key for narrative comprehension.

Q. Extensive Reading:

o Five Features: Focus on quantity over quality, reading for pleasure, levelappropriate material, no testing pressure, and motivation through selfpaced reading. o Six Benefits (inferred): Vocabulary growth, improved fluency, better comprehension, increased motivation, better spelling, and exposure to varied structures.

Q. Intensive Reading – Three Characteristics

Focused on language form, shorter texts, and comprehension exercises.

Q. Vocabulary Learning (Low-Frequency Techniques):

o Flashcards o Word lists o Repeated reading o Morphological awareness o Extensive exposure to text

Q. Paired Reading:

Involves a proficient and less-proficient reader reading together. The less-proficient one indicates when to read alone. Promotes fluency and confidence.

Q. Grammar – What It Is and How It Works

Rules of language structure that enable meaning-making. Helps in sentence construction and interpretation. In reading, grammar supports decoding and coherence.

Q. Three Levels Where L1 Affects L2:

Syntax, discourse structure, rhetorical expectations.

Q. Discourse Competence:

Understanding how ideas are connected through cohesion, coherence, and structure.

Q. Motivation in Reading:

Linked with engaging texts, fluency practice, and student interest.

Q. Three Types of Texts:

narrative,