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91.
Middle school English language learners watch an episode of a popular television program without sound and work in small groups to create scripts of what they think the characters in the episode are saying. Then, students make audio recordings of their scripts to be played along with the video. This activity promotes the students' communicative language competence primarily by:
  1. Prompting their use of cohesive devices to communicate clearly.
  2. Developing their ability to negotiate meaning in a conversation.
  3. Exposing them to a variety of proficient English speakers.
  4. Encouraging their oral language production in a meaningful context.
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92.
Use the steps below of an informal aural language assessment administered to English language learners to answer the question that follows.
  1.  A teacher pronounces pairs of words (e.g., thorn/torn, mother/mother, boat/both).
  2.  Students identify whether the words are the same or different.
  3.  The teacher presents written sentences that contain a missing word (e.g., "I want to_____  you for helping me today").
  4.  The teacher reads each sentence, inserting a given word (e.g., thank) for the missing word.
  5.  Students select from a choice of two words (e.g., tank/thank) which word the teacher inserted in the sentence. 

This type of assessment primarily provides information about English language learners':
  1. Listening comprehension.
  2. Grammatical competence.
  3. Phoneme discrimination.
  4. Auditory processing.
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93.
Which of the following informal listening comprehension assessment tasks would be most appropriate to use with an entering-level English language learner?
  1. The student produces a short response to a teacher's open-ended question about a familiar topic.
  2. The student identifies a picture that corresponds to a teacher's aural input.
  3. The student completes a short cloze exercise while listening to audio-recorded aural input.
  4. The student retells a simple story after listening to the story read aloud.
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94.
An ESL teacher is planning to assess English language learners' communicative language skills by conducting one-on-one structured oral interviews. The teacher will use a rubric to score student responses in such areas as describing a personal experience and expressing a personal opinion. Which of the following guidelines would be most important for the teacher to follow when administering this type of oral language assessment?
  1. Provide students with possible responses when they hesitate or fail to respond to a question and move on quickly if a student appears unable to respond.
  2. Ask questions that elicit expected responses on topics of which the teacher and student have shared knowledge.
  3. Avoid making assumptions based on knowledge of a student or on the student's past performance and base judgments on the language produced in the interview.
  4. Allow students to determine the topic and direction of the interview with limited input or guidance from the teacher.
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95.
An ESL teacher is selecting a formal listening comprehension assessment to use with developing-level English language learners. Each potential test requires a student to listen to aural input in an audio recording and respond to written comprehension questions. Which of the following features would be most important for the teacher to consider when selecting an assessment for this purpose for students at this level?
  1. The methods by which the test is scored and results are reported.
  2. The visual layout and attractiveness of the test materials.
  3. The number of speakers used in the test's aural input.
  4. The linguistic difficulty of the test questions.
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