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1. phonology
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Spanish-speaking students learning English are finding it difficult to hear and pronounce the English
phonemes /b/ and /v/ differently. The teacher gives them minimal pairs, like "bat" and "vat", "buoyed" and
"void", to help them discriminate, What is his exercise a best example of?
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2. Their native language never clusters but separates consonants with vowels.
Answer:
A teacher with a class of English language learner (ELL) students from Japan finds the students have
trouble pronouncing English words featuring consonant clusters, for example, "strike". they tell her that, in
their language, this word is "sutoraiku" . From the Japanese version of the word, how can the cause of their
difficulty be inferred?
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3. Parallel structure
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English language learner (ELL) students at the intermediate level of English language development display
writing errors such as the underlined part of the following: "She likes to ski, skate, and snowboarding.": To
help the correct this type of error, the teacher should work with them on...
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4. Using articles
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A student learning English as a second language tends to speak and write English sentences without "the"
or "a" before nouns, for example, "I have book" and "We are sitting at desk." What does the teacher need
to give the students instruction about?
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5. A student learns to speak in different words and constructions with adults than with friends.
Answer:
Give an example of how choices among language variations are influenced by various types of discourse:
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6. Coherence
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A teacher has given a class of English language learner (ELL) students some sample essay texts to analyze.
They analyze and discuss whether each essay organizes its ideas well and produces a sense of unity
through using a thesis statement and topic sentences throughout. What is the teacher instructing students
in?
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7. The purpose of the writing and the target reading audience
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Of the following, which does a student need to attend to most to become pragmatically competent in his or
her writing?
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8. Exposition
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Which type of academic essay is MOST likely to use comparison and contrast or cause and effect to
explain a process to the reader?
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9. b) Penalty, punish, penitentiary
Answer:
Which of the following words have Latin roots?
a) Pentagon, peptic, pharmacy
b) Penalty, punish, penitentiary
c) Page pediatric, pedagogical
d) Pandemic, phantom, phlegm
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10. d) Periscope, perimeter, peripheral
Answer:
Which of these English words have Greek origins?
a) Pedal, pedestrian, or centipede
b)Pending, pendulum, appendage
c)Perfectly, persistence, permeate
d)Periscope, perimeter, peripheral
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11. Cirr-
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Which root is found in both Greek and Latin, spelled the same but with different word origins and
meanings?
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12. "Edible" and "obese"
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Give an example of a pair of English words that are descended from the same origin:
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13. To be able to figure out new word meanings
Answer:
What is the MOST significant reason for learning Greek and Latin roots for English words?