FLT3701 Assignment 2 2022

SSIGNMENT 01 – MCQs 1. Select the correct option that relates to the following statement: When teaching a first additional language (FAL) in the Foundation Phase, it is important that teachers keep the following guidelines in mind: 1. The FAL content and context should show progression in each grade. 2. FAL teaching is also influenced by the learner’s home language and “additive bilingualism”. 3. The FAL should be taught using an interactive teaching approach. 4. All of the above. 2. Read the following scenario and then choose the correct option. A Grade 2 teacher allows learners to first communicate ideas that are important to them, such as their personal experiences, thereby allowing other learners to understand what they are saying, which is not necessarily based on the structure of that particular language. Which approach is the teacher following to teach a language? 1. The total physical response approach 2. The grammar translation approach 3. The communicative approach 4. The task-based language teaching approach 3. Identify the method below that is based on the idea that the home language and FAL have separate linguistic systems; whereby the teacher only teaches the FAL in the classroom, using actions and pictures to give meaning. Learners thereafter repeat dialogues, rhymes and short songs, which they hear from the teacher. 1. The audio - lingual method 2. The communicative language approach 3. Total physical response approach 4. The grammar translation method 4 4. Identify the correct option below that relates to the following question: What is important when teaching and learning English First Additional Language (EFAL) as an additional language in the Foundation Phase? 1. To pay attention to the development of the learners as growing children 2. The development of language and how it is used 3. Teachers’ knowledge of the language is not necessarily equivalent to the number of years of they have been teaching 4. It serves as a precursor for English to be taught as the language of teaching and learning (LoLT) in the Intermediate Phase 5. Identify which one of the following lessons limits the learners’ opportunity to acquire a FAL during language learning. 1. A lesson that caters for the different strategies that learners use in their learning 2. A lesson that creates a classroom environment that allows learners to feel confident in their learning. 3. A lesson that forces learners to express themselves correctly, without catering for any mistakes or trial and error. 4. A lesson that encourages and motivates learners to acquire knowledge of the additional language. 16. Select the correct option that relates to the following statement: Most knowledge is based on theories, which provide a set of ideas that needs to be put in practice to see whether they will or will not work to prove them. 1. Theories lay the foundation upon which we build our practical approach to something. 2. Theories provide helpful ideas in understanding how learners learn and why they experience certain problems. 3. Theories form the basis upon which we design our lessons and approaches to teaching. 4. All the above. FLT3701/102/0/2022 5 7. Choose the correct statement that best describes the relationship between word decoding and reading in the beginning of the readers’ development. 1. Rapid automatic decoding skills help facilitate development of reading fluency and comprehension. 2. Reading comprehension skills directly facilitate the development of decoding skills. 3. Decoding skills and reading comprehension skills tend to develop independently of one another. 4. Development of decoding skills is secondary to the development of reading fluency and comprehension skills. 8. Which of the following language skills is the first skill mastered in the Foundation Phase? 1. Reading 2. Listening 3. Speaking 4. Writing 9. Blunden-Greef and Motila, as cited in (Phatudi 2014), maintain that teachers need to consider the following hint when teaching learners how to speak a first additional language (FAL): 1. Learners need to be exposed to the basic form of that particular language, which will allow them to easily gain meaning from the context. 2. Learners must be forced to use the high-order phrases of that particular additional language. 3. There is no need to teach them when to use formal and informal language. 4. All of the above. 10. Select the correct hypothesis that relates to the following statement: This hypothesis implies that a number of factors play a role in first additional acquisition. 1. The input hypothesis 2. The acquisition learning hypothesis 3. The natural order hypothesis