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Quiz: Learning and the Language Arts
Due Aug 29 at 11:59pm Points 20 Questions 10 Time Limit 60 Minutes
Allowed Attempts 3
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Submitted Aug 29 at 11:13pm
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The quiz:
Covers theLearnmaterial fromModule 1: Week 1.
Contains10 multiple-choicequestions.
Islimitedto1 hour.
Allows3 attemptsand thehighestattempt will count towards the grade.
Isworth 20 points.
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module 1: Week 1.
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Question 1
In the English language, there are approximately:
26 phonemes
44 phonemes
100 phonemes
500 phonemes
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Question 2
Last year, Sarah felt comfortable using her college's program for online registration.
When the college introduced a new program, however, Sarah had diculty and
experienced:
equilibrium
disequilibrium
schemata
constructivism
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Question 3
Although Emily conversed comfortably with peers and with older adults, she struggled
when presenting oral reports in class. Emily had not yet developed:
alphabetic principles
communicative competence
metacognition
proximal development
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Question 4
Internet texts differ from print materials primarily because Internet texts:
are nonlinear
are written at lower levels
have larger fonts
are based on specic topics
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Question 5
As he is learning English, 7-year-old Sergei often makes grammatical mistakes such as
saying "my dog brown" instead of "My brown dog." Sergei is having diculty with the:
phonological system
syntactic system
semantic system
pragmatic system
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Question 6
Although they could not yet write business letters independently, a group of third-grade
students were able to write business letters with their teacher's assistance.
Consequently, this task fell within the students':
interactive area
frustration level
literacy center
zone of proximal development
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Question 7
The smallest units of sound are called:
phonemes
graphemes
morphemes
letters
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Question 8
Language arts teachers should integrate instruction on viewing with reading
instruction primarily because:
children today watch less television
children use similar strategies in reading and viewing
viewing requires a higher degree of language prociency
drawing can be very motivating
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Question 9
Before reading aloud a text about marine life, the teacher asked her students to share
their memories about a recent eld trip to a New Jersey beach. This suggests that the
teacher's goal was to:
conduct a semantic feature analysis
conduct a miscue analysis
activate background knowledge
develop phonemic awareness
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Question 10
Research suggests that students with less effective oral language abilities tend to:
have strong listening comprehension
have less effective written language abilities
struggle with handwriting
compensate with visual ability
