Acquiring Knowledge for L2 Learners: Part II

Fluent reading requires a large recognition of vocabulary and a sound knowledge of grammatical structure is a type of knowledge that involves ….

• Automatic recognition ability

• Vocabulary and structural knowledge

• Formal discourse structure knowledge

• Content/world background knowledge.

These are the other aspects of speaking competencies, except?

• Knowledge of communication strategies

• Knowledge of concentration ideas

• Knowledge of contextualization cues

• Knowledge of conversational structure

These are the key differences between the two productive activities, except ....

• Writing is typically addressed to readers and speaking to listeners

• Writing usually allows time for planning and editing of production while speaking is often unplanned and requires “online” or “real-time” processing

• Writing is more likely than speaking to be disassociated from the immediate time and place of production and from a specific audience

• Writing is more difficult than speaking

What is receptive activity?

• The ability to understand information

• The ability to understand meaning

• The ability to understand word structure

• The ability to understand word context

The most difficult function for reading in academic settings is reading for general understanding.

• True

• False

Mime means using gestures or other nonverbal means to refer to an object or event

• True

• False

Learners whose L1 is represented in a different orthographic system from the L2 no need to learn symbols for encoding the target language as an early step in acquisition

• True

• False

Recognizing pattern in L2 learning is not important

• True

• False

A different symbolic writing system is called .…

Language that accomplishes speaker goals by means of utterances which request something, apologize, promise, deny, express emotion, compliment, complain, etc. are called ....