OISE University of Toronto Teachaway TEFL Unit
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Assessment Triangle - CORRECT ANSWER: Observation, interpretation and cognition
Assimilative approach - CORRECT ANSWER: A monolingual and monocultural focus.
Aims for students to absorb the English language and the customs, values, and beliefs of English-speaking countries or "Western" perspectives.
Classroom listening activities - CORRECT ANSWER: Examples include providing
students with a worksheet with missing lyrics, watching films/videos/YouTube clips, note-taking while listening to lectures, and acting out/role playing.
Cloze Passages - CORRECT ANSWER: An activity involving a text with key words
deleted and replaced with blanks.
CLT - CORRECT ANSWER: Communicative Language Teaching (uses the
Communicative Approach)
Clustering information - CORRECT ANSWER: Language learners may group the
information that they have heard into smaller chunks to try to improve their comprehension. They may run into difficulty when the chunk too narrowly or too broadly.
Cognates - CORRECT ANSWER: Words that are similar in two or more languages
Collaborative Learning Tasks - CORRECT ANSWER: Think-pair-share, Three-step
interview, Learning teams, and jigsaw groups
Collocation Activities - CORRECT ANSWER: Getting learners to match words with
items that they are most often associated.
Colloquial Speech - CORRECT ANSWER: Many language learners have a difficult time determining meaning when slang or idiomatic expressions are used.
Communicative Approach - CORRECT ANSWER: To help students develop their
language abilities. When learners are given the opportunity to speak and interact, they are required to express themselves and clarify their intentions, thoughts, and opinions to ensure that others understand them.
Communicative competence - CORRECT ANSWER: The ability to communicate
effectively in real situations
Connectives - CORRECT ANSWER: Used to add examples, to indicate time and
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Content-based language instruction - CORRECT ANSWER: Uses authentic texts and
materials to teach students.
Conversation Strategies - CORRECT ANSWER: Include express opinions, challenge
ideas, support others, pose questions, agree or disagree, solve problems, build relationships, and take a stand.
Corrective - CORRECT ANSWER: Feedback that shows students where their mistakes
are, AND gives them the correct answer.
Diagnostic - CORRECT ANSWER: Assessment whose purpose is to identify learners'
strengths and areas for improvement based on learning that has been completed.
Diagnostic - CORRECT ANSWER: Feedback that targets the learning gap between
where students are now and a future, goal-driven level. It is not excessively detailed, but it still provides descriptive information to learners.
Discourse Competence - CORRECT ANSWER: Clarity and cohesion in writing and
speaking.
Discourse competence - CORRECT ANSWER: Knowledge of words and phrases to
create meaningful sentences and paragraphs
Evaluative - CORRECT ANSWER: Feedback that gives students overall comments
such as: 'well-done' or 'good work'.
Explicit reading comprehension - CORRECT ANSWER: Ability to comprehend explicit
information in a text by scanning to locate overtly stated information
Extensive reading - CORRECT ANSWER: Generally involves rapid reading of large
quantities of material or longer readings for general understanding with focus generally on the meaning of what is being read than on the language.
Facilitative - CORRECT ANSWER: Feedback that shows students where their mistakes are, but does not give them the correct answer.
Feedback - CORRECT ANSWER: The information that we give to learners about their
performance on an assessment task.
Feedback that should be used - CORRECT ANSWER: Facilitative & diagnostic
Feedback that should not be used - CORRECT ANSWER: Corrective & evaluative
Figurative language - CORRECT ANSWER: Words and expressions that have a totally
different meaning than their literal definitions.
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