Core Skills & Teaching Methods
Q1. LSRW stands for:
Correct Answer: A. Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Q2. Which two skills are RECEPTIVE?
Correct Answer: A. Listening and Reading
Q3. Which two skills are PRODUCTIVE?
Correct Answer: A. Speaking and Writing
Q4. In natural acquisition, which skill develops first?
Correct Answer: A. Listening
Q5. Sub-skills of listening include:
Correct Answer: A. Discrimination and comprehension
Q6. Pronunciation, prosody and fluency are sub-skills of:
Correct Answer: A. Speaking
Q7. Skimming a text means:
Correct Answer: A. Reading rapidly to get the gist
Q8. Scanning a text means:
Correct Answer: A. Reading quickly to locate specific information
Q9. Intensive reading is best described as:
Correct Answer: A. Careful, thorough reading for detail
Q10. Extensive reading mainly aims at:
Correct Answer: A. Overall meaning and pleasure
Q11. Mechanics in writing include:
Correct Answer: A. Spelling, punctuation, capitalisation
Q12. Which is generally considered the most demanding of the four skills?
Correct Answer: A. Writing
Q13. A class discussion mainly integrates which two skills?
Correct Answer: A. Listening and Speaking
Q14. Show-and-tell, role play and storytelling chiefly develop:
Correct Answer: A. Speaking skills
Q15. Note-taking is a higher-order sub-skill of:
Correct Answer: A. Listening
Q16. Paragraph organisation, with related ideas grouped, is a sub-skill of:
Correct Answer: A. Writing
Q17. Read-alouds, audio recordings and oral storytelling primarily train:
Correct Answer: A. Listening
Q18. Discourse management is a sub-skill of:
Correct Answer: A. Speaking
Q19. Why must a complete language education attend to all four skills?
Correct Answer: A. Real-world use rarely confines to one skill
Q20. In the natural-acquisition order, the LAST skill to develop is usually:
Correct Answer: A. Writing
