Topic 1 - LEDI

In Foreign Language Teaching, today, the dominant technique is the Communicative Language Teaching Approach. Why?

• It emphasizes a silent period first

• It emphasizes written skills

• It emphasizes oral skills

• It emphasizes interaction as the means and goal of study

What skill is Listening?

• Oral receptive skill

• Oral productive skill

• Written receptive skill

• Written productive skill

What skill is Writing?

• Oral receptive skill

• Oral productive skill

• Written receptive skill

• Written productive skill

The listening process is...

• A passive process in which listeners do not discuss the input

• An active process in which listeners select and interpret information

• An active process in which listeners produce information

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Listening provides:

• A skill that outside the classroom is not needed

• Knowledge of suprasegmental and segmental features

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• Knowledge of suprasegmental features

• Motivation and comprehensible input

When introducing listening in the classroom, is it important to think about how we listen in real life?

• False

• Partly agree

• True

• Partly disagree

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The Setting in a communicative situation is...

• The person who sends the message

• The information carried by the message

• The social and physical environment of the addresser and the addressee

• The language of the message

The communicative competence is composed of the following competences:

• Minimal pairs, suprasegmental, phatic, sociolinguistics

• Linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse, strategic, sociocultural

• Linguistic, verbal, strategic, input, social

• Sociocultural, segmental, phatic, grammar, input

What is listening for gist?

• When the learner tries to understand what is happening even if s/he can't understand everything

• When the learner can't afford to ignore anything

• When the learner is focused on information at word level

Which listening stage corresponds to the following activity?

Activating vocabulary on the topic

• Pre-listening activity

• While-listening activity

• Post-listening activity