IFL/DOE/TM401/SPM

TEACHING AND LEARNING COMPREHENSION

Answer the following questions based on your understanding of the unit.

1. The key principles of teaching and learning comprehension include:

- Effective comprehension makes students think.
- A good comprehension technique gives students a reason for reading or listening.
- Students should use a wide range of comprehension work.
- Prediction plays an important part in comprehension work.
- Texts used for listening practice should usually be easier than those used for reading.

Explain them briefly. Provide some examples to support your points.

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2. How can the students and teachers control the texts in comprehension work?
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3. What are the types of texts that should be used for comprehension work?
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4. “Comprehension guides and student responses can be linguistic or non-linguistic.” Explain
with examples.
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5. What does a teacher probably do in the stages of ‘Pre-listening, While-listening, and Post-
listening’?
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6. Additional detailed techniques for listening and reading include Sequencing, Using
comprehension questions, Selecting, Comparing and matching. Explain them briefly with
examples.
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7. What are the information-type questions used in comprehension work. Explain them briefly
with examples.
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8. What are the problems with typical multiple choice items?
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9. What are some techniques mainly used for listening? Explain them briefly.
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10. What are some techniques mainly used for reading? Explain them briefly.
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