ELL Listening and Speaking Skills Flashcards
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What is 'pragmatic competence' in ELL speaking development?
Answer: Knowledge of how to use language appropriately in different social and cultural contexts
Pragmatic competence involves understanding how context, relationship, and culture determine appropriate language use, such as when to be formal versus informal.
Which factor MOST significantly affects an ELL student's listening comprehension in academic settings?
Answer: Background knowledge about the topic being discussed
Prior knowledge of the topic allows listeners to use top-down processing to predict and make sense of incoming language, greatly improving comprehension.
What is the purpose of the 'Think-Pair-Share' strategy in ELL speaking instruction?
Answer: To give students time to think, then practice speaking with a partner before sharing with the class
Think-Pair-Share lowers ELL students' anxiety by giving them processing time and low-stakes partner practice before requiring them to speak to the whole class.
Why is using authentic listening materials (such as real news broadcasts) beneficial for advanced ELL learners?
Answer: They expose learners to natural speech rate, intonation, and real-world vocabulary
Authentic materials expose learners to natural speech features — reduced forms, connected speech, and colloquial vocabulary — that prepare them for real-world listening.
What does 'discourse competence' require of ELL speakers?
Answer: The ability to organize ideas coherently and use cohesive devices to connect speech
Discourse competence means knowing how to structure spoken language into coherent, cohesive units using connectors, transitions, and logical organization.
Which approach is MOST aligned with developing both listening and speaking skills simultaneously in ELL learners?
Answer: Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) using interactive tasks
Communicative Language Teaching focuses on meaningful interaction, which naturally integrates listening and speaking in real communicative contexts.
What is the role of 'phonological awareness' in ELL speaking and listening development?
Answer: It enables learners to perceive, segment, and manipulate the sounds of English
Phonological awareness — the ability to hear and work with the sound structures of a language — is foundational to both accurate pronunciation and listening discrimination in ELL learners.