Session 4

Question 1

91. discourse competence

Answer 1

arranging words or texts into cohesive conversations

Question 2

92. strategic competence

Answer 2

using strategies to keep a conversation going when you get stuck speaking in L2

Question 3

93. irregular verbs

Answer 3

verbs that completely change form when changing tense- eat, ate, eaten

Question 4

94. irregular nouns

Answer 4

nouns that do not add an S when becoming plural- man to men, foot to feet

Question 5

95. irregular spelling

Answer 5

words that are not spelled like they sound- said vs sed

Question 6

96. communicative competence

Answer 6

a person’s ability to use grammar, syntax, phonology to communicate clearly

Question 7

97. How does spoken English differ syntactically from written English?

Answer 7

Spoken English oftentimes repeats words and has incomplete sentences. Written text includes punctuation. Speech uses tone, volume to add emotion. Sometimes speech is more informal, slang

Question 8

98. List 3 ways to spell the English phoneme i

Answer 8

ee, i, ie

Question 9

99. What kinds of words most frequently occur in a reduced form in natural speech

Answer 9

gonna, hafta, wanna

Question 10

100. What types of utterances have a rising intonation pattern

Answer 10

surprise, question, politeness, hesitation, insecurity

Question 11

101. declarative sentence

Answer 11

a statement (to declare)

Question 12

102. interrogative sentence

Answer 12

asks a question (interrogate)

Question 13

103. tag question

Answer 13

question tagged at the end of statement- It’s red, isn’t it?

Question 14

104. direct object

Answer 14

Ask who or what receives the action. Heidi passed the candy.

Question 15

105. indirect object

Answer 15

after you find the direct object, ask “to who”. Heidi passed the candy to me.

Question 16

106. indefinite article

Answer 16

A or an- shows something is not specific

Question 17

107. idiom

Answer 17

expression that can’t be explained literally- over the moon

Question 18

108. present perfect progressive

Answer 18

began in past and continues up to the present- I have been waiting for you.

Question 19

109. what are phrasal verbs

Answer 19

verbs that change meaning according to how they are paired- pick vs pick up, give vs give up

Question 20

110. What is one problem of Arabic speakers learning English?

Answer 20

they pronounce consonants that should be silent - apostles :)

Question 21

111. What is one problem of Spanish speakers learning English?

Answer 21

They forget the s in 3rd person- He play all day.

Question 22

112. What is one problem of Chinese speakers learning English?

Answer 22

word stress- when a Chinese word is stressed differently it completely changes the meaning but not so in English

Question 23

113. Difference between simultaneous and sequential bilingualism

Answer 23

Students learn 2 languages at same time vs learning one language then another

Question 24

114. Define interlanguage

Answer 24

Language used by ELLs as they are learning a 2nd language- combo of L2 and pigeon language

Question 25

115. List rhetoric patterns in writing

Answer 25

Cause and effect, classification, compare and contrast, description, narration

Question 26

116. Define orthography

Answer 26

Writing words with correct spelling

Question 27

117. What is one example of an utterance that shows evidence of language transfer?

Answer 27

Speakers apply knowledge from native language to a second language