Receptive Competences Quiz

According to Hurrelmann (2003), what are the constitutive factors of reading competence?

• Emotional participation and reflection on what has been read

• Decoding skills and emotional participation

• Decoding skills, emotional participation, reflection on what has been read, ability to generate follow-up communication

• Decoding skills and reflection on what has been read

What distinguishes successful readers according to Hudson (2007)?

• Planning, directing and monitoring the reading process

• Using pre-, while- and post-reading strategies

• All of the above

• Deciphering the meaning of unknown words

What is an important aspect of listening comprehension besides perceiving sounds?

• Capturing, processing and interpreting different types of listening texts and contexts

• Recognizing the emotional undertones of an utterance

• All of the above

• Concentrating on what is being listened to

What does visual competence involve?

• All of the above

• Perceiving visual stimuli and identifying visual stimuli

• Awareness of various types of pictures or images

• Constructing meaning based on formal characteristics of a picture and context

What is a challenge related to simultaneous demands made by multimodal texts?

• Capturing and processing signals bottom-up and top-down

• Connecting different signals to each other

• Both A and B

• None of the above

How are non-linear digital texts classified?

• As linear sequences of information

• As random collections of information

• As individual, interlinked units of information

• As separate and unrelated pieces of information

What is the connection between motivation and the development of receptive competences?

• Motivated learners tend to have less receptive experience

• Motivation has no impact on receptive competences

• Lack of positive receptive experience leads to increased motivation

• Motivated learners tend to increase receptive competences through constant training

What can difficulties during listening comprehension result from?

• Authentic listening texts with familiar topics

• Spoken language differing from written language

• Foreign language learners determining the pace of reception

• All of the above

What is a challenge faced by foreign language learners when it comes to films?

• None of the above

• Both A and B

• Dealing with fast-paced dialogues and complex storylines

• Interpreting language and auditory information simultaneously

What is the three-step structure for process-oriented text reception?

• Execution, awareness of strategies, review of success

• None of the above

• Planning, execution, evaluation

• Reading, listening, viewing