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Delta Module 1 With Complete Solutions
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Test-Teach-Test - ✔✔✔-A lesson design in which learners first perform a task,
which the teacher uses to assess learners' specific needs. They are then taught
whatever they need in order to re-do the task more effectively.
Modality - ✔✔✔-The lexical and grammatical ways used by speakers to express
their attitude to what they're saying. For example: Maybe Sarah is a chef. (lexical
_______: adverb)
Cohesion - ✔✔✔-The use of grammatical and lexical means to achieve connected
text, either spoken or written.
Induction - ✔✔✔-The process of working out rules on the basis of examples. Also
called discovery learning.
Priming - ✔✔✔-The process by which a word gathers particular associations
through repeated encounters.
Process writing - ✔✔✔-An approach to writing where learners are encouraged to
brainstorm, plan, draft, re-draft, review, and "publish" their written work.
Word family - ✔✔✔-A group of words which share the same root but have different
affixes, as in care, careful, careless, carefree, uncaring, carer.
Sentence - ✔✔✔-The largest purely grammatical unit in a language.
Silent period - ✔✔✔-This refers to the fact that children learning their first language
go through a lengthy period simply listening before they say their first words.
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Uptake - ✔✔✔-What learners report to have learnt from a language lesson.
Typically this does not match what the teacher intended to teach.
Notional syllabus - ✔✔✔-A syllabus that is organised according to general areas of
meaning that are used in most grammars, such as frequency, location, duration
and possibility.
Deixis - ✔✔✔-The way language points to spatial, temporal and personal features
of the context. For example, I have been here three weeks now, the referents of I,
here and now cannot be identified without knowing the context.
Phatic language - ✔✔✔-Language whose purpose is to smooth the conduct of social
relations. It has an interpersonal function.
Phoneme - ✔✔✔-One of the distinctive sounds of a particular language. It cannot
be replaced with another sound without causing a change in meaning.
Phonology - ✔✔✔-The study of a sound system of a particular language, which
describes the abstract system that allows the speakers of a language to distinguish
meaning from mere verbal noise.
Polysemy - ✔✔✔-This refers to the case where one word has more than one related
meaning.
Prosodic features - ✔✔✔-The stress, rhythm, and intonation along with tempo,
loudness and voice quality of speech.
Ellipsis - ✔✔✔-The leaving out of elements of a sentence because they are either
unnecessary or because their sense can be worked out from the immediate
context.
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Display questions - ✔✔✔-Asked by teachers in order to find out what a learner can
say in the target language.
Face validity - ✔✔✔-Used to say that a test is acceptable to a learner, in that it
meets the learner's expectations of what a test should be like.
TALO - ✔✔✔-Text as a Linguistic Object
TAVI - ✔✔✔-Text as a Vehicle for Information
TASP - ✔✔✔-Text as a Stimulus for Production
Dictogloss - ✔✔✔-A classroom dictation activity where learners are required to
reconstruct a short text by listening and noting down key words, which are then
used as a base for reconstruction.
Diagnostic test - ✔✔✔-A test that helps the teacher and learners identify problems
that they have with the language.
Diglossia - ✔✔✔-A situation where a language that has two forms, one a 'higher'
and more prestigious form used by educated speakers in formal situations, and the
other a 'lower', vernacular form used more commonly.
Dipthong - ✔✔✔-A one-syllable sound that is made up of two vowels. In Received
Pronunciation English there are eight of these.
Discourse management - ✔✔✔-The ability to produce extended written and spoken
texts, for example conversations.
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Achievement test - ✔✔✔-This test evaluates a learner's understanding of a specific
course or study programme.
Action research - ✔✔✔-A development tool for a teacher that involves observing or
gathering other data about a class through interviews, case studies, and
questionnaires.
Non-gradable adjectives - ✔✔✔-Adjectives that cannot be expressed in degrees
and so cannot be graded.
Backwash - ✔✔✔-The positive or negative impact of a test on classroom teaching.
Substitution - ✔✔✔-The replacing of a noun phrase or a clause by a single word in
order to avoid repetition or to make a text more cohesive.
Universal Grammar - ✔✔✔-The theory which claims that every speaker of a
language knows a set of principles which apply to all languages and also a set of
parameters that can vary from one language to another, but only within set limits.
Connotation - ✔✔✔-The attitudinal meaning of a word, which may be culturally
determined, such as whether it carries a positive or negative meaning.
Nuclear stress - ✔✔✔-The place in an utterance where the major pitch movement
begins, marking the focal point of the message.
Fossilisation - ✔✔✔-A process through which an error has become a permanent
feature of a learner's language use and is believed to be resistant to correction.
Adjacency pair - ✔✔✔-A sequence of two related utterances by two different
speakers. The first utterance leads to a set of expectations about the response.
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Test-Teach-Test - ✔✔✔-A lesson design in which learners first perform a task,
which the teacher uses to assess learners' specific needs. They are then taught
whatever they need in order to re-do the task more effectively.
Modality - ✔✔✔-The lexical and grammatical ways used by speakers to express
their attitude to what they're saying. For example: Maybe Sarah is a chef. (lexical
_______: adverb)
Cohesion - ✔✔✔-The use of grammatical and lexical means to achieve connected
text, either spoken or written.
Induction - ✔✔✔-The process of working out rules on the basis of examples. Also
called discovery learning.
Priming - ✔✔✔-The process by which a word gathers particular associations
through repeated encounters.
Process writing - ✔✔✔-An approach to writing where learners are encouraged to
brainstorm, plan, draft, re-draft, review, and "publish" their written work.
Word family - ✔✔✔-A group of words which share the same root but have different
affixes, as in care, careful, careless, carefree, uncaring, carer.
Sentence - ✔✔✔-The largest purely grammatical unit in a language.
Silent period - ✔✔✔-This refers to the fact that children learning their first language
go through a lengthy period simply listening before they say their first words.
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Uptake - ✔✔✔-What learners report to have learnt from a language lesson.
Typically this does not match what the teacher intended to teach.
Notional syllabus - ✔✔✔-A syllabus that is organised according to general areas of
meaning that are used in most grammars, such as frequency, location, duration
and possibility.
Deixis - ✔✔✔-The way language points to spatial, temporal and personal features
of the context. For example, I have been here three weeks now, the referents of I,
here and now cannot be identified without knowing the context.
Phatic language - ✔✔✔-Language whose purpose is to smooth the conduct of social
relations. It has an interpersonal function.
Phoneme - ✔✔✔-One of the distinctive sounds of a particular language. It cannot
be replaced with another sound without causing a change in meaning.
Phonology - ✔✔✔-The study of a sound system of a particular language, which
describes the abstract system that allows the speakers of a language to distinguish
meaning from mere verbal noise.
Polysemy - ✔✔✔-This refers to the case where one word has more than one related
meaning.
Prosodic features - ✔✔✔-The stress, rhythm, and intonation along with tempo,
loudness and voice quality of speech.
Ellipsis - ✔✔✔-The leaving out of elements of a sentence because they are either
unnecessary or because their sense can be worked out from the immediate
context.
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Display questions - ✔✔✔-Asked by teachers in order to find out what a learner can
say in the target language.
Face validity - ✔✔✔-Used to say that a test is acceptable to a learner, in that it
meets the learner's expectations of what a test should be like.
TALO - ✔✔✔-Text as a Linguistic Object
TAVI - ✔✔✔-Text as a Vehicle for Information
TASP - ✔✔✔-Text as a Stimulus for Production
Dictogloss - ✔✔✔-A classroom dictation activity where learners are required to
reconstruct a short text by listening and noting down key words, which are then
used as a base for reconstruction.
Diagnostic test - ✔✔✔-A test that helps the teacher and learners identify problems
that they have with the language.
Diglossia - ✔✔✔-A situation where a language that has two forms, one a 'higher'
and more prestigious form used by educated speakers in formal situations, and the
other a 'lower', vernacular form used more commonly.
Dipthong - ✔✔✔-A one-syllable sound that is made up of two vowels. In Received
Pronunciation English there are eight of these.
Discourse management - ✔✔✔-The ability to produce extended written and spoken
texts, for example conversations.
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Achievement test - ✔✔✔-This test evaluates a learner's understanding of a specific
course or study programme.
Action research - ✔✔✔-A development tool for a teacher that involves observing or
gathering other data about a class through interviews, case studies, and
questionnaires.
Non-gradable adjectives - ✔✔✔-Adjectives that cannot be expressed in degrees
and so cannot be graded.
Backwash - ✔✔✔-The positive or negative impact of a test on classroom teaching.
Substitution - ✔✔✔-The replacing of a noun phrase or a clause by a single word in
order to avoid repetition or to make a text more cohesive.
Universal Grammar - ✔✔✔-The theory which claims that every speaker of a
language knows a set of principles which apply to all languages and also a set of
parameters that can vary from one language to another, but only within set limits.
Connotation - ✔✔✔-The attitudinal meaning of a word, which may be culturally
determined, such as whether it carries a positive or negative meaning.
Nuclear stress - ✔✔✔-The place in an utterance where the major pitch movement
begins, marking the focal point of the message.
Fossilisation - ✔✔✔-A process through which an error has become a permanent
feature of a learner's language use and is believed to be resistant to correction.
Adjacency pair - ✔✔✔-A sequence of two related utterances by two different
speakers. The first utterance leads to a set of expectations about the response.
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