Young Learners Flashcards
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Which type of assessment is MOST suitable for young learners who cannot yet read or write well?
Answer: Observation and performance-based tasks
Observation and task-based assessment allow teachers to evaluate young learners' language use without requiring literacy skills.
A teacher asks a young learner to point to the correct picture after hearing a word. This activity primarily assesses:
Answer: Listening comprehension
Pointing to a picture in response to an audio stimulus measures whether the student understood the spoken word, which is a listening comprehension task.
Which phonics approach introduces letter-sound correspondences one at a time before blending them into words?
Answer: Synthetic phonics
Synthetic phonics teaches individual phoneme-grapheme correspondences and then trains students to blend them to decode words.
A young learner says 'I goed to the park.' The teacher responds, 'Oh, you WENT to the park! How nice!' This is an example of:
Answer: Recasting
Recasting restates the learner's utterance correctly without directly pointing out the error, maintaining conversational flow.
When planning a listening activity for 7-year-olds, which task sequence is MOST appropriate?
Answer: Pre-listen task → Listen for gist → Listen for detail
A pre-listening task activates prior knowledge, listening for gist builds global understanding, and listening for detail develops focused comprehension.
Why is it important to use short, illustrated texts when developing reading skills in young learners?
Answer: Pictures and brief text reduce cognitive load and support meaning-making
Illustrations provide contextual clues that help young learners decode meaning, while short texts match their limited attention span and processing capacity.
Which writing activity is MOST developmentally appropriate for 5-to-6-year-old English learners?
Answer: Copying and tracing familiar words or short captions under drawings
Tracing and copying familiar words builds fine motor skills and letter-sound awareness at a level appropriate to early literacy development.