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Listening is one of four language skills. Which are the others?Read the answer and worked solution →Which language-teaching approach does NOT incorporate a listening component?Read the answer and worked solution →Learners listen to a short piece of speech with maximum accuracy. This is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which type of listening is more effective for building fluency and motivation?Read the answer and worked solution →Which strategies do L2 learners consciously use when listening?Read the answer and worked solution →What did research find about listening anxiety and comprehension in second-language learners?Read the answer and worked solution →Which feature of speech does NOT usually affect how comprehensible listening input is?Read the answer and worked solution →Rhetorical listening, as developed by Krista Ratcliffe, mainly aims to promote what?Read the answer and worked solution →Ratcliffe argued that much literacy teaching foregrounds speaking and writing but ignores what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which view of language acquisition rests on Vygotsky's theories and Jerome Bruner's work?Read the answer and worked solution →In social interactionism, much of a child's linguistic growth stems from what?Read the answer and worked solution →Applied to language, the zone of proximal development covers tasks a child can do how?Read the answer and worked solution →How does social interactionism differ from classical behaviourism?Read the answer and worked solution →Emergentist theories say language acquisition needs what?Read the answer and worked solution →The debate over how infants pick up language is often called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scholar is a leading nativist who stressed the complexity of grammar and limited input?Read the answer and worked solution →Language input is defined as all words, contexts and other forms of language to which a learner is what?Read the answer and worked solution →Babbling by deaf babies shows what about babbling?Read the answer and worked solution →Case studies of language-deprived children such as Genie support the idea of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Prosody in speech conveys what kind of information?Read the answer and worked solution →Learning to speak a new word first requires the learner to be able to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →Children with weak non-word repetition tend to show what in vocabulary growth?Read the answer and worked solution →Children learn about ten to fifteen new word meanings a day. How is most of this learning achieved?Read the answer and worked solution →In the whole object assumption, a novel word label is taken by a child to refer to what?Read the answer and worked solution →Relational frame theory says children acquire language how?Read the answer and worked solution →Cognitive-functional linguists argue that language structure is created through what?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Listening is one of four language skills. Which are the others?

  1. Speaking, reading, writing
  2. Counting, drawing, singing
  3. Spelling, grammar, recitation
  4. Memory, logic, attention
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Correct answer: A. Speaking, reading, writing

1. The four skills of language learning are listening, speaking, reading and writing. 2. All teaching approaches except grammar translation include listening. 3. The other sets are not the four skills. _Source: Wikipedia, Listening, Listening in language learning_

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Which language-teaching approach does NOT incorporate a listening component?

  1. Total physical response
  2. Grammar translation
  3. The direct method
  4. Audio lingual method
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Correct answer: B. Grammar translation

1. The source states all approaches except one include listening. 2. The exception is grammar translation. 3. Total physical response relies heavily on listening and responding. _Source: Wikipedia, Listening, Listening in language learning_

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Learners listen to a short piece of speech with maximum accuracy. This is called what?

  1. Extensive listening
  2. Casual listening
  3. Rhetorical listening
  4. Intensive listening
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Correct answer: D. Intensive listening

1. Intensive listening targets a brief sequence of speech with high accuracy. 2. Extensive listening uses lengthy passages for general comprehension. 3. Rhetorical listening is a different, cultural concept. _Source: Wikipedia, Listening, Listening in language learning_

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