Correct Response: A. The strategy described in the scenario directly promotes the student's awareness of the connections between spoken and written English because the teacher transcribes the student's own words into print. B is incorrect because the activity described in the scenario does not involve the student's use of first-language literacy skills. C is incorrect because the teacher writes the student's words verbatim on a sheet of paper. An emerging-level English language learner typically makes many syntactic errors, so this type of activity is not likely to promote the student's awareness of sentence structures that he/she would encounter in English texts. D is incorrect because the text the teacher transcribes is limited to vocabulary that is already part of the student's expressive oral vocabulary in English.
