Phonology Correct Answer: 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?
Their native language never clusters but separates consonants with vowels.
Correct 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?
Parallel structure Correct Answer: 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...
Using articles Correct Answer: 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?
A student learns to speak in different words and constructions with adults than
with friends. Correct Answer: Give an example of how choices among language
variations are influenced by various types of discourse:
Coherence Correct Answer: 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?
The purpose of the writing and the target reading audience Correct Answer: Of
the following, which does a student need to attend to most to become
pragmatically competent in his or her writing?
Exposition Correct Answer: Which type of academic essay is MOST likely to use
comparison and contrast or cause and effect to explain a process to the reader?
B) Penalty, punish, penitentiary Correct 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
D) Periscope, perimeter, peripheral Correct 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
Cirr- Correct Answer: Which root is found in both Greek and Latin, spelled the
same but with different word origins and meanings?
"Edible" and "obese" Correct Answer: Give an example of a pair of English words
that are descended from the same origin:
To be able to figure out new word meanings Correct Answer: What is the MOST
significant reason for learning Greek and Latin roots for English words?