ESL EXAM questions with correct answers

Use the following information to answer items 6 and 7.A middle school science teacher is reading a set of student lab reports. The following sentence is in Remi's report: I knew that if I just had too more minutes, I could of finished.:In response to the last report item, "Explain your major understandings about lab procedures in completing this experiment," Remi writes: You should never feel bad just cuz u didn't finish.Which of the following feedback strategies should the teacher use to help Remi understand how to present his content-area knowledge in completing the science experiment report? A. The teacher should mark an X through cuz and u and write "misspelled" in the margin. B. The teacher should use Remi's sentence in the next day's Daily Oral Language exercise and have students try to correct the sentence. C. The teacher should affirm the learner's frustration over not completing the experiment, explaining that next time, he should use science terms to explain why he didn't finish. D. The teacher should leave the sentence as is since writing is not the focus of the science class. Answer (C) The correct response is C. The item stem focuses on feedback so the response should demonstrate an appropriate feedback strategy. Response C shows the teacher providing affective support to the student and explaining how to improve next time. Response C shows the teacher using feedback to promote the learner's achievement. Response A is incorrect because, technically, the words are not misspelled; instead, the use of cuz and u shows a mix up of registers.