Listening and receptive skills
Listening and reading are called:
A) Productive skills
B) Receptive skills
C) Writing skills
D) Mechanical skills
B receptive skills
Listening is considered:
A) Passive activity
B) Active process
C) Visual skill
D) Writing activity
B Activity process
Processing meaning is also called:
A) Analysis skills
B) Drawing skills
C) Acting skills
D) Singing skills
A Analysis skills
Top-down listening uses:
A) Individual sounds only
B) Background knowledge
C) Writing skills
D) Spelling rules
B Background knowledge
Inner factors include:
A) Interest and attention
B) Pictures
C) Speakers
D) Audio length
A interest and attention
Speaking and writing are:
A) Receptive skills
B) Passive skills
C) Productive skills
D) Acoustic skills
C productive skills
Listening involves:
A) Only hearing sounds
B) Only grammar
C) Receiving and constructing meaning
D) Only reading
C receiving and constructing meaning
Processing knowledge and context is:
A) Perception
B) Synthesis
C) Dictation
D) Copying
B Synthesis
Bottom-up listening starts from:
A) Context
B) Prediction
C) Individual sounds
D) Images
C individual sound
Outer factors include:
A) Motivation
B) Linguistic structure of text
C) Memory only
D) Emotions
B) Linguistic structure of text
The main goal of a receptive skill lesson is:
A) Translation
B) Pronunciation
C) Comprehension
D) Memorization
C comprehension
Students listen when they want to:
A) Ignore information
B) Remember specific information
C) Sleep
D) Avoid communication
B remember specific information
Grammar helps learners:
A) Understand meaning concretely
B) Draw pictures
C) Write essays only
D) Speak loudly
A Understand meaning concretely
Bottom-up model focuses on:
A) Phonemes → words → sentences
B) Pictures only
C) Grammar only
D) Translation
A Phonemes → words → sentences
Normal speech tempo is about:
A) 50 syllables/min
B) 100 syllables/min
C) 200–250 syllables/min
D) 500 syllables/min
C) 200–250 syllables/min
Listening comprehension is a skill in the:
A) Written mode
B) Oral mode
C) Visual mode
D) Graphic mode
B oral mode
Listening is more than:
A) Seeing pictures
B) Writing words
C) Hearing words
D) Reading texts
C hearing words
Recognizing word boundaries is:
A) Top-down skill
B) Bottom-up skill
C) Writing skill
D) Speaking skill
B bottom- up skills
Top-down listeners rely on:
A) Prior knowledge
B) Random guessing
C) Silence
D) Writing
A Prior knowledge
Lexical difficulties include:
A) Antonyms and homonyms
B) Pictures
C) Fonts
D) Colors
A) Antonyms and homonyms
Listening means:
A) Hearing without effort
B) Ignoring sounds
C) Understanding spoken messages
D) Reading silently
C understanding spoken messages
The first stage of listening process is:
A) Writing
B) Processing sound
C) Drawing
D) Translating
B Processing sound
Identifying conversation location is:
A) Top-down
B) Grammar skill
C) Writing
D) Pronunciation
A Top- down skiil
Schemata help listeners:
A) Sleep
B) Predict meaning
C) Avoid listening
D) Translate words
B predict meaning
Extra-linguistic difficulty example:
A) Tempo of speech
B) Verb tense
C) Articles
D) Prefixes
A) Tempo of speech