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AP English Language and Composition Unit 1D: Expository Prose and Informational Analysis — practice questions

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What is it called when a speaker alternates between two or more languages?Read the answer and worked solution →Which media have self-study audio recordings been produced on?Read the answer and worked solution →Strategies for teaching reading should fit which learner features?Read the answer and worked solution →Comprehension relies on which two abilities?Read the answer and worked solution →How is reading comprehension best described?Read the answer and worked solution →Fluent decoding without meaning shows what?Read the answer and worked solution →Working out a word from nearby words is what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why does weak decoding lower understanding?Read the answer and worked solution →Deep processing mainly involves which processing?Read the answer and worked solution →Shallow processing in reading chiefly concerns which of these?Read the answer and worked solution →The levels-of-processing idea behind shallow and deep comprehension was first identified by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →What is gradual release of responsibility?Read the answer and worked solution →Instruction finally aims to lead students to what?Read the answer and worked solution →What role should a teacher of reading play for students?Read the answer and worked solution →What does vocabulary, called glue, hold together?Read the answer and worked solution →How do small-vocabulary students usually read?Read the answer and worked solution →Biemiller advised pre-teaching which words?Read the answer and worked solution →In what order are the SQ3R steps named?Read the answer and worked solution →In SQ3R, what comes first before reading?Read the answer and worked solution →How does SQ3R suggest making questions?Read the answer and worked solution →During the Recite step, how should a reader put the material?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two names are linked with developing reciprocal teaching in the 1980s?Read the answer and worked solution →Which four strategies make up reciprocal teaching?Read the answer and worked solution →In reciprocal teaching, which member of the group answers the questions just posed and explains confusing parts?Read the answer and worked solution →In reciprocal teaching, the Summarizer is expected to tell the main idea how?Read the answer and worked solution →Which strategy means educated guesses about what comes next?Read the answer and worked solution →How does teacher support change over time in reciprocal teaching?Read the answer and worked solution →What does reciprocal teaching teach learners?Read the answer and worked solution →Which psychologist's zone of proximal development matches the scaffolding in reciprocal teaching?Read the answer and worked solution →What do skilled readers do when comprehension breaks down?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What is it called when a speaker alternates between two or more languages?

  1. Back-chaining
  2. Code-switching
  3. Visualization
  4. Sandwiching
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Correct answer: B. Code-switching

1. Multilingual families often move between languages. 2. Alternating between languages for different content or places is code-switching. 3. The other terms are teaching or reading techniques. _Source: Wikipedia, Language education, section Code switching_

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Which media have self-study audio recordings been produced on?

  1. Stone tablets and scrolls
  2. Radio plays and posters
  3. Newspapers and magazines
  4. Records, tapes, CDs, DVDs
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Correct answer: D. Records, tapes, CDs, DVDs

1. Audio recordings use many classroom methods. 2. They have been produced on records, tapes, CDs, DVDs and websites. 3. The other options are not listed. _Source: Wikipedia, Language education, section Audio recordings and books_

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Strategies for teaching reading should fit which learner features?

  1. Height, weight and diet
  2. Address, income and hobby
  3. Ability, aptitude and age
  4. Pitch, colour and weight
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Correct answer: C. Ability, aptitude and age

1. Strategies vary with challenges like new concepts and long sentences. 2. They should fit the ability, aptitude and age level of the learner. 3. Physical or social traits are irrelevant. _Source: Wikipedia, Reading comprehension, section Reading strategies_

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