ENG515 Midterm Quiz Merged

ENG515

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Maha Malik Teaching of Reading and Writing Skills

1. It must be recognised that reading is a complex skill, that is to say that it involves a whole series of lesser skills. (True)
2. People learn to read their first language in a wide variety of circumstances. (True)
3. An excellent account of the teaching of reading to native speakers in _________ can be found in Smith and Elley's book. (New Zealand)
4. In the book ' Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking' by Nation and Newton, ________ strands of a language course are focused. (Four)
5. The __________ is a very popular reading activity in New Zealand pre-schools and primary schools. (Shared book activity)
6. The shared book activity is a very popular reading activity in New Zealand pre schools and primary schools. (Speed)
7. Guided reading can be done silently or with a child reading aloud to a friend, parent or teacher. (True)
8. Learners should read with ______ percent coverage of the vocabulary in the text so that they can learn the remaining percent through guessing from context. (98)
9. Reading should be related to other language skills. The course should involve listening, speaking and writing activities related to the reading. (True)
10. Learners should become familiar with a range of _________ structures, such as those used in newspaper reports, stories, recounts and information reports. (Texts)
11. There should also be _______ reading practice in word recognition and in reading for understanding. (True)
12. An essential part of the reading skill is the skill of being able to recognise written forms and to connect them with their spoken forms and their meanings. (True)
13. It is the ------- of successful reading that will contribute most to the development of reading skills. (Quantity)
14. Phonemic awareness is the knowledge that spoken words are made up of ------- that can be separated. (Sound)
15. A native speaker of Malay who can read Malay already knows the letter ------ needed for reading. (Shapes)
16. Sentences begin with a ------- letter and end with a full stop. (Capital)
17. The Maori language has ------ consonant sounds and five vowel sound. (12)
18. A typical writing fluency development activity is ------ minute writing where learners write as much as they can. (10)
19. Many high frequency words are irregularly spelled and must be stored as ----------items. (Memorized)
20. If spelling is a significant problem for learners, it may be worthwhile giving it some focused, planned special attention. (True)
21. Spelling is particularly important for --------------. (Writing)
22. Spelling is a very limited and clearly defined area, involving only ------- letters. (26)
23. Where there are similarities between languages, second language learning will be -------. (Easier)
24. One of the most important steps in Munby’s technique is ---------- between the teacher and learners in order to eliminate the distractors. (Discussion)
25. The vocabulary, grammatical features, cohesive features and information all contribute to the ------------ effect of a text. (Communicative)
26. A good reading exercise provides the teacher and the learners with useful information about the learners’ ----------- on the exercise. (Performance)
27. One of the most important steps in Munby’s technique is discussion between the teacher and learners in order to eliminate the distractors. (True)
28. In grammar-translation approach, where the teacher works with the learners, using the -------- ----- language to explain the meaning of a text. (First)
29. Vocabulary teaching during intensive reading needs to share the -------- in the language- focused learning. (Time)
30. Bloom's taxonomy is a set of ------- hierarchical models used for classification of educational learning objectives. (6)
31. Palincsar and Brown (1986) designed a procedure called ------------- teaching. (Reciprocal)
32. After the learners read the passage they write a short composition about ---------- quarter of the length of the passage containing all the main ideas that are in the passage. This is called a précis. (One)
33. In predicting the passage the learners see about -------- topic-related words taken from a text they are going to read. (Eight)
34. Good multiple-choice questions are not easy to make and often they are more difficult than they should be. (True)
35. Independent reading is an activity in which children,----------- or with friends, read their own self-selected books during a set period of time each day. (Alone)
36. It is very important that learners should have the opportunity to gain meaning focused input through reading plenty of material that does not contain too many unknown or difficult items. (True)
37. Exercises on ellipsis help learners make sense of sentences by giving them practice in recovering the ---------- parts. (Missing)
38. Simplifying noun groups, like the coordination activity, involves looking for the ---------of a sentence. (Essence)
39. The words ‘and, or, but, because, for, if, and when’ are the examples of -----------. (Conjunctions)
40. A useful introduction to Genre Features is the predicting activity where learners use the topic and first sentence to predict what a text will be about. (True)