According to Palinscar's work on reciprocal teaching, when a teacher has the students involved in structured conversations about text, reading comprehension improves.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 2When a teacher is trying to promote language growth, which of the following techniques should be used?
A) increasing time for discussion
B) fishing
C) lecturing
D) parroting
Ques. 3Students who have great facility with their oral language system should easily be able to tap into these systems when they come to an unfamiliar word while reading.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 4According to Tough, when a child says, That's messy, he or she is using which of the following?
A) self-maintaining language
B) projecting language
C) imagining language
D) reasoning language
Ques. 5In elementary schools, most attention is focused on teaching children how to improve their talking and listening.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 6Pragmatics refers to the rules that help us navigate our conversations.
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Ques. 7Semantics refers to the rules we learn to help us navigate conversations.
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Ques. 8Most language growth is completed by school age; therefore, the thrust of language instruction should be mainly in the area of syntax.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 9When students develop communication skills such as turn-taking, conversational repair, topic introduction, and maintenance, they are using what language component?
A) pragmatics
B) semantics
C) morphology
D) phonology
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