LPDA

Which of the following is NOT considered a type of academic writing?

• Theses and dissertations

• Short-answer test responses

• Text messages and tweets

• Technical reports

In which type of writing performance do learners focus mainly on form, such as letters, words, and punctuation?

• Imitative

• Intensive

• Responsive

• Extensive

What is the primary focus of intensive (controlled) writing?

• Writing long essays and research papers

• Producing appropriate vocabulary and correct grammar in sentences

• Connecting multiple paragraphs into a cohesive text

• Writing with a focus on creativity and fluency

Which of the following is an example of a job-related writing genre?

• Poetry

• Memo

• Personal diary

• Lab report

What is a key characteristic of extensive writing?

• Focus on correct spelling and phoneme-grapheme correspondences

• Use of controlled grammar exercises

• Production of multi-paragraph texts such as essays and research papers

• Copying sentences for practice

Which writing assessment task requires learners to rewrite a paragraph in a different tense?

• Picture-cued task

• Dictocomp

• Grammatical transformation task

• Ordering task

What is a dicto-comp?

• A technique where students rewrite a paragraph from memory after hearing it

• A spelling test that requires writing dictated words

• A task that involves filling in missing words in a cloze passage

• A test in which students match phonetic symbols to words

In picture-cued tasks, what is the main goal?

• To assess a learner’s ability to write numbers in words

• To test a learner’s ability to recognize phonetic symbols

• To encourage sentence formation based on visual prompts

• To practice typing skills

What is the purpose of ordering (scrambled sentence) tasks?

• To test spelling accuracy

• To assess grammatical competence and sentence structure

• To evaluate reading comprehension

• To encourage free writing

Which of the following is an example of a macroskill of writing?

• Producing correct spelling and punctuation

• Using cohesive devices in a sentence

• Conveying links between events and ideas in a text

• Writing at an efficient rate of speed