Teaching Writing
Second Language Acquisition
Multi-level Classes
Testing
Harmer
100
writing for an audience's expectation of what the text will look like
What is genre-based writing?
100
Exposure to language from the teacher that is a little over the students' heads
What is comprehensible input?
100
Students who can't really use English but actually know quite a lot of the language
What are false beginners?
100
When an upcoming test affects the teaching and learning in a course.
What is the washback effect?
100
reading for pleasure outside the classroom
What is extensive reading?
200
Writing for the stimulation of the cognitive processes in the writer's mind
What is process writing?
200
An emphasis on real-life, closed-ended activities rather than just language.
What is task-based learning?
200
An arrangement in which students are involved with each other to complete a task.
What is groupwork? What is pairwork?
200
When a test looks like the real deal.
What is face validity?
200
diagrams of words that grow out as words get more specific
What are vocabulary trees?
300
only mark a few types per paper
How much should you mark up the grammar errors in a paper?
300
The concept of using learned items to check what we have acquired
What is monitoring?
300
A seating arrangement that is good for small group work
What are separate tables?
300
measuring student achievement all through the learning period
What is continuous assessment? Or, what is formative assessment?
300
reading quickly for gist
What is skimming?
400
It should contain the student's attitude or opinion for the whole paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
400
An American applied linguist who theorized a distinction between acquisition and learning
Who is Stephen Krashen?
400
Because it runs counter to many cultures that value cooperation.
Why do we have to be careful about separating students out by level? Or why do we have to be careful about making the stronger student the T.A.?
400
test items that focus on word meanings or on using the correct modal form rather than on language use
What are indirect test items?
400
The pitch either rises, falls, or rises then falls, depending on the type of statement.
What is intonation?
500
Because it makes students take responsibility for the purpose of each sentence they write.
Why make students label the function of each sentence when writing?
500
Because EFL students don't get enough exposure for it to always take place.
Why can't you expect students to acquire all of their English rather than learn it?
500
Because this strategy shows that everyone has value, no matter their English language level.
Why should we showcase individual talents in a multi-level class?
500
It is difficult to make these viable-sounding answers.
What's the problem with distractors.
500
B, D, V, and G in respect to pronunciation and phonics. Our vocal chords move!
What are voiced consonants?
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