What types of listening are considered as a life listening?

What types of listening are considered as a life listening?

Videos, audios of native speakers

English movies

Reading aloud, storytelling, interviews

Listening music

Choose an authentic listening material

Radio broadcast

Article

Presentation

Conversation

What are the advantages of authentic listening?

The speed, clarity, accent and language used in the EFL course book listening materials means that, more often than not, students are under prepared to engage in “real-life” conversations with English speakers

Before your class, identify parts of the audio that you feel will be most difficult for your learners to understand.

Instead of designing a lengthy pre-listening activity with your students, provide them with a bit of context, as students will not have the opportunity to predict the content during the actual exam

Provide learners with a transcript alongside the audio, so that they can go back through the text and analyze specific areas in which they experienced difficulties when listening.

What is the role of Listening in a class?

Listening lesson not only helps you understand group mates, it also helps you understand people outside of the class.

Just listening for the sake of listening – it must be “Authentic Listening”.

Understand the thoughts, opinions, ideas and feelings of others by focusing on their agenda rather than yours.

More importantly, understand what they are saying.
Disadvantages of authentic listening

The speed of speech is too fast and complicated to follow the meaning of the context.

This can particularly be a problem with novels and poetically written magazine articles, where the descriptive introduction is often several levels higher than the story will be once the plot and/ or dialogue starts. The same is true of punning newspaper headlines.

For some people the challenge and achievement of reaching the end of an authentic text for the first time is just the boost to their motivation that they need, even if they then don’t touch another authentic text until they have managed to reach a more advanced level.

In my experience, many of the teachers who choose to use the sink-or-swim approach of challenging even lower level language learners with texts written for native speakers seem to be those who also take the similar but more common approach of throwing them into a communicative situation to cope with as best they can.

How can teacher use Weather Forecasts as listening activity?

Allow students to listen to a radio weather forecast. This will challenge them to understand content without visual clues.

The song for the students challenging them to fill in the blanks of the missing lyrics. You can play the song multiple times.

Allow students to listen to a radio weather forecast. This challenges students to guess at missing information in what they hear. Of course, once their lyrics are complete play the song again and give them the opportunity to sing along

Allow students to listen to a radio weather forecast. They are especially useful if they are by

What is the notion of spoken interaction?

It belongs to the area of discourse, which can be defined as ‘any unit of language beyond the sentence, such as a dialogue in speech and a paragraph in writing.

It is particularly important skill for written assignments at university, such as essays and lab reports.

A single student makes a speech among public

It can improve our speaking skill and reading skills.

Choose the spoken interaction activities

Dialogue, interview, discussion

Dialogue, Problem-solution , presentation

Picture describing, interview, lecture

My life after five years, my hero, dialogue

When we focus on accuracy activities we:

Reflect natural language use

Deal with grammar implicitly

Focus on forming correct examples of language use

Require real communication

When we focus on fluency activities we:

Deal with grammar implicitly

Focus on forming correct examples of language use

Practice small samples of language

Practice language out of context

Choose the spoken production activities

Presentation about my hero, lecture

Dialogue, interview, discussion

Dialogue, Problem-solution , presentation

Interview, presentation about my hero

What is accuracy?

Clear and articulate speaking or writing, language free from grammar mistakes

The ability to produce written and/ or spoken language with ease.

Communicative ideas effectively/ produce continuous speech without causing comprehension difficulties or breakdown in communication

Concerns the learners capacity to produce language in real time without undue pausing or hesitation

What is fluency?

Words spelled and/or pronounced correctly/ language appropriate to the situation and context.

Clear and articulate speaking or writing/ follow most or all of the punctuation marks as I read the text.

The ability to produce written and/ or spoken language with ease/speak with a good but not necessarily perfect command of intonation.

Clear and articulate speaking or writing, language free from grammar mistakes.

What are group planning tasks in speaking?

Collect together a number of advertisements or brochures advertising a holiday. Explain to the students that they can all go on holiday together, but they must all agree on where they want to go.

A powerful variation role play. In this case, situations and one or more of the characters are drown not from cards, but from a participant’s own life.

An organizational technique that works particularly well with simple problem- based discussion.

Many commercially available board games lead to interesting speaking, based on small group discussion.

What is a role play?

Learners are usually given some information about a ‘role’. There are often printed or ‘role cards’. Learners take a little preparation time and then meet up with other students to act out small scenes.

An organizational technique that works particularly well with simple problem- based discussion.

Collect together a number of advertisements or brochures advertising a holiday. Explain to the students that they can all go on holiday together, but they must all agree on where they want to go

Concerns the learners capacity to produce language in real time without undue pausing or hesitation.

What is required from the students and/or teachers to get or to give a full comprehension from the text?

To read in detail

To create their own reading tasks based on the text

To read in a loud voice

To read twice

What method is important in intensive reading to save time and get detailed information?

Skim/scan reading

Jigsaw reading

Gist reading

Extensive reading

Why students are asked to perform extensive reading tasks?

They do entertain students while reading fiction books, magazines etc.

They do help them to broaden their outlook

They do help them to gain background knowledge

They do help them to read enthusiastically in class

What is the role of teacher in intensive reading?

There is indispensible role of teacher as organizer, observer, feedback organizer and prompter

There is negligible role of teacher as organizer, observer, feedback organizer and prompter

There is indispensible role of teacher as organizer, observee, feedback receiver and prompter

There is negligible role of teacher as organizer, observee, feedback receiver and prompter

How many skills are required in most reading sequences?

All language skills

More than one skill

Two language skills

Three language skills

What is fundamental condition of extensive reading?

Being interesting for reader

Being understandable for reader

Being useful for reader

Being essential for reader

What is the most helpful to set the extensive reading programme?

Setting up libraries

Use existing libraries

Produce books with different pictures

Setting up online libraries

What is static library?

Online library

Library in the centre of a city

Library which is filled with fiction books

Libraries located in classrooms or other parts of the school

Is there any role of teacher in extensive reading programme?

Yes, but not essential role

Yes, there is a crucial role

No, there is no any role of teacher

There are few roles of teacher

What are the extensive reading tasks?

To keep weakly reading diary, to write short book reviews, to interview about what they are reading

To read at a high speed, to write short book reviews, to interview about what they are reading

To keep weakly reading diary, to write a report, to interview about what they are reading

To keep weakly reading diary, to write short book reviews, to discuss about what they are reading

What is the feedback?

It is way of gathering data by watching behavior, events or noting physical characteristics in their natural setting

Communication that is intended to maintain or improve skill performance

It is an outline and summary of topics to be covered in education training course

A list of questions asked on paper that have been carefully designed and pre-tested

Who can organize an effective feedback?

A teacher as a feedback organizer

Students as learners

A teacher as prompter

A teacher as organizer

What is descriptive feedback?

Feedback towards behaviour that can be changed

Non-judgemental, based on behaviour not personality

Feedback that is addressing one or two key issues rather than too many at once

Feedback that is given as close to the event as possible

What is the purpose of feedback?

To help a person to improve or to maintain performance of a task

To help a person to improve language skills

To help a person to improve background knowledge

To help a person to broaden outlook

Define the types of feedback?

Supportive, corrective, direct and indirect feedback

Supportive, corrective, direct, descriptive and immediate feedback

Supportive, corrective, direct, overt and direct feedback

Supportive, corrective, direct, implicit and explicit feedback

What is a supportive feedback?

Feedback that describes behavior, points out a good result, and encourages good work

Feedback that describes behavior, points out a bad result, and suggests a change for improved results

Feedback that a person hears face- to- face

Feedback that a person hears as soon as possible after their actions

What is a corrective feedback?

Feedback that describes behavior, points out a bad result, and suggests a change for improved results

Feedback that a person hears face- to- face

Feedback that a person hears as soon as possible after their actions

Feedback that describes behavior, points out a good result, and encourage good work

What is an immediate feedback?

Feedback that a person hears as soon as possible after their actions

Feedback that a person hears face- to- face

Feedback that describes behavior, points out a bad result, and suggests a change for improved results

Feedback that describes behavior, points out a good result, and encourage good work

What is a direct feedback?

Feedback that a person hears face- to- face

Feedback that a person hears as soon as possible after their actions

Feedback that describes behavior, points out a bad result, and suggests a change for improved results

Feedback that describes behavior, points out a good result, and encourage good work

What is required from the teacher while organizing feedback?

To give motivation

Being supportive

Being honest

To entertain

Who can prompt students to notice language features within reading in classroom?

Teacher as a prompter

A teacher as an organizer

A teacher as an observer

A teacher as a feedback organizer

What is the purpose of a teacher as prompter?

Checking for comprehension of the topic and drawing their attention which is very important in the lesson

Clarifying ambiguities and making them aware of issues of text structure which they had not come across previously

All options are correct

There is no correct answer

What is an observation?

It is a way of gathering data by watching behavior, events or noting physical characteristics in their natural setting

Communication that is intended to maintain or improve skill performance

It is an outline and summary of topics to be covered in education training course

A list of questions asked on paper that have been carefully designed and pre-tested

How many types of the observation do you know and what are they?

Direct, indirect, overt and covert observation

Direct, indirect, overt, covert and implicit observation

Direct, indirect, overt and covert, implicit and explicit observation

Overt and covert observation

What is an overt observation?

It is the type of observation in which everyone knows they are being observed

It is the type of observation in which no one knows they are being observed

It is the type of observation when you watch interactions, processes, or behaviors as they occur

It is the type of observation when you watch results of interactions, processes o behaviors

What is a covert observation?

It is the type of observation in which no one knows they are being observed

It is the type of observation in which everyone knows they are being observed

It is the type of observation when you watch interactions, processes, or behaviors as they occur

It is the type of observation when you watch results of interactions, processes o behaviors

What is a direct observation?

It is the type of observation when you watch interactions, processes, or behaviors as they occur

It is the type of observation when you watch results of interactions, processes o behaviors

It is the type of observation in which everyone knows they are being observed

It is the type of observation in which no one knows they are being observed

What is an indirect observation?

It is the type of observation when you watch results of interactions, processes, behaviors

It is the type of observation when you watch results of interactions

It is the type of observation when you watch interactions, processes, or behaviors as they occur

It is the type of observation when you watch interactions, processes, or behaviors before they occur

A questionnaire is…

Type of research focuses on one or a few individuals. In most cases, these studies are longitudinal, that is, they follow the individuals for a long period of time

A direct face-to-face attempt to obtain reliable and valid measures in the form of verbal responses from one or more respondents.

A means of eliciting the feelings, beliefs, experiences, perceptions, or attitudes of sample of individuals. It could be structured or unstructured

Anecdotal and subjective, they can provide very important clues about what the learners feel and how they process information.

An interview is…

A means of eliciting the feelings, beliefs, experiences, perceptions, or attitudes of sample of individuals. It could be structured or unstructured

A direct face-to-face attempt to obtain reliable and valid measures in the form of verbal responses from one or more respondents.

Anecdotal and subjective, they can provide very important clues about what the learners feel and how they process information.

Type of research focuses on one or a few individuals. In most cases, these studies are longitudinal, that is, they follow the individuals for a long period of time

A case study is - …

A direct face-to-face attempt to obtain reliable and valid measures in the form of verbal responses from one or more respondents.

Anecdotal and subjective, they can provide very important clues about what the learners feel and how they process information.

Type of research focuses on one or a few individuals. In most cases, these studies are longitudinal, that is, they follow the individuals for a long period of time

A means of eliciting the feelings, beliefs, experiences, perceptions, or attitudes of sample of individuals. It could be structured or unstructured

What are the basic features of teacher’s presence in the classroom?

His activities, voice and body language

His tasks and voice

His smile, voice, intonation and body language

His textbook and activities in it

What classroom phrases help to distinguish and clarify whether learners understand the topic or not?

Questions

Instructions

Greetings

Clarifications

What is a peer observation?

It is the observation when teachers are observed by teachers

It is the observation when students are observed by teachers

It is the observation when teachers are observed by authority of the educational facilities

It is the observation when teachers are observed by students

Which one of the followings often depends on how it is done, and, just as importantly, who it is done?

Intensive correction

Fluency

Intervention

Gentle correction

Choose two columns of a simple matching item.

Stem and response

Item and response

Item and question

Stem and question

What is the most efficient way to test knowledge in courses in which events, dates, names, places are important

Matching

Gap filling

True/false

Multiple choice

What test method is appropriate for the sciences in which numerous experiments, results, special terms, definitions have to be remembered

Matching

Gap filling

True/false

Multiple choice

Which principle is not suggested for the matching test item development.

Keep the responses long and complex

Avoid grammatical or other clues to the correct response

Include directions which clearly state the basis for matching the stimuli with the responses

The column of stimuli on the left should set the question clearly

Which statement is true about the matching test method?

Traditionally, the column of stems is placed on the left

Traditionally, the column of stems is placed on the right

Traditionally, the column of responses is placed on the left

Traditionally, the column of responses is placed below

Which is not true about the gap filling test method

Omit less significant words from the statement

Don’t omit so many words from the statement that the intended meaning is lost

Avoid obvious clues to the correct response

Be sure that there is only one correct response

Choose the right answer

Scoring gap filling test items is less objective than multiple choice, true/false as the student supplies the response

Scoring multiple choice test items is less objective than gap filling tests as the response is too alternative

Scoring true/false test items is less objective than gap filling tests as the response is too factual or recalling

Scoring matching items is less objective than gap filling tests as the stem and the response are equal in numbers

Which test method asks students to supply rather than select the answer

Gap filling

Matching

Multiple choice

True/false

Which is not true about the gap filling test item

The blanks should be put at the beginning of the statement

The blanks should be put at the end of the statement

Always concentrate on the number of blanks to fill in

Make the blanks of equal length

Which is not the type of multiple choice test item

Terms with definitions

Question/Right answer

Incomplete statement

Best answer

Which test method is more appropriate for the response with a reduced guessing factor?

Multiple choice

Gap filling

True/false

Matching

Which test method has a difficulty of coming up with plausible distractors, alternative responses

Multiple choice

Gap filling

True/false

Matching

Choose the test method which is appropriate for all levels.

Multiple choice

Gap filling

True/false

Matching

Which is not true about the multiple choice test method?

Don’t make alternatives approximately equal in length

Use at least four alternatives for each item

Use capital letters (A,B,C,D) as response signs rather than lower case letters

Avoid irrelevant clues such as grammatical structure, well-known verbal associations

Which test method can provide easier conditions for cheating

Multiple choice

Gap filling

Essay

Matching

Which test method can cover broad range of content

Multiple choice

Gap filling

Essay

Matching

Which is not the advantage of the multiple choice test item

Provision of alternative responses

Versatile at all levels

Minimum of writing for students

Guessing reduced

Which test method is good for who, what, where, when content assessment?

Fill-in-the-blank

Matching

Multiple choice

True/false

Which statement is true about the matching test item?

Matching items measure recognition of factual knowledge than higher order thinking skills

Matching items measure recognition of higher order thinking skills than factual knowledge

Matching test items are appropriate for higher levels of learning

Matching test items are good for the test of analysis, synthesis, evaluation skills of students

Which is not true about the gap filling test item?

Use a long quote with multiple blanks to complete

Provide explicit directions as to what amount of variation will be accepted in the answers

Give much more credit for completions

For numbers, indicate the degree of precision/units expected