CALP CALP Academic Listening Skills 3

Question 1

What does 'active listening' mean in a CALP academic context?

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Engaging cognitively to monitor comprehension, identify key ideas, and construct meaning

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Listening while doing another task simultaneously

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Repeating words quietly to aid memory

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Sitting in the front row of a classroom

Question 2

A student hears the lecture phrase: 'This phenomenon, though counterintuitive, is well-documented in the literature.' What CALP skill helps them understand this?

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Parsing complex syntactic structures with embedded clauses

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Social pragmatics

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Basic phonics skills

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Memorization of common phrases

Question 3

How do discourse connectors like 'however,' 'therefore,' and 'consequently' support CALP academic listening comprehension?

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They signal logical relationships between ideas, helping listeners track argument structure

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They slow down lecture pace for easier processing

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They indicate vocabulary definitions

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They have no specific function in academic speech

Question 4

A CALP-proficient listener recognizes that a professor's tone shifts when presenting a contested claim versus an established fact. This skill is called:

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Pragmatic competence applied to academic discourse

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Phonological sensitivity

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Syntactic parsing

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Vocabulary breadth

Question 5

In CALP academic listening, what does 'metacognitive monitoring' refer to?

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Actively assessing one's own comprehension during listening and adjusting strategies accordingly

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Checking that recording equipment is working

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Reviewing notes after a lecture

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Predicting test questions during a lecture

Question 6

Which activity best prepares students for CALP-level academic listening in US content classrooms?

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Listening to academic podcasts and responding analytically in writing

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Watching entertainment television programs

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Practicing conversational English with peers

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Memorizing common social expressions