Assessment final exam

Is your obligation as a teacher to triangulate your measurements: consider at least two (or more) performances and/or contexts before drawing a conclusion.

• True

• False

Multiple measures will always give you a more reliable and valid assessment than a

single measure.

• True

• False

Reading and listening

• involve receiving information and so they are called the receptive skills.

• are known as the productive skills because they involve producing words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs.

The __________ skills are speaking and writing, because learners doing these need to produce language.

Selective listening is...

• Listening to a relatively short stretch oflanguage (a greeting, question, command, comprehension check, etc.) in order to make an equally short response.

• processing stretches of discourse such as short monologues for several minutes in order to "scan" for certain information.

Listening to develop a top-down, global understanding of spoken

language is called _________ listening.

1. Discriminate among the distinctive sounds of English.

2. Retain chunks of language of different lengths in short-term memory.

• MIcro skills

• Macro skills

1. 1.Recognize the communicative functions of utterances, according to situations, participants, goals.

2. Infer situations, participants, goals using real-world knowledge.

• Micro skills

• Macro skills

From a pragmatic view of language performance, listening and speaking are almost always closely interrelated.

• True

• False

Speaking is a productive skill that can´t be directly and empirically

observed.

• True

• False