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Verbal communication is that involving...
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Oral communication or speaking, no communication by writing
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Just sounds, no movement.
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Words or lexical units syntactically combined in sentences or utterances.
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The reading subskill called predicting means:
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using clues before we begin reading to guess what a text may be about
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getting the meaning out of every word and out of the links or relationships between words and between sentences
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finding a specific piece or pieces of information in it
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In a normal context, the sentence "The teapot complained because the weather was red" does not match...
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Guessing drills, substitution drills and transformation drills are:
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Post-reading activities are used to...
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To connect the text and new information with the students' reality.
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To prepare the students about the topic to read.
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To check the students' comprehension as they read.
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Different exponents of the same functions according to the level of formality are called:
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Recording
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Register
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Formal exponents
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What is cohesion?
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It is not a standard of textuality but a grammatical device to relate the sentences with our ideas.
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It is a standard of textuality that gives meaning to the different words in a text.
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It is a standard of textuality relating the ways the components in a text are mutually connected.
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According to Jakobson's model, the phatic function is:
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To be concentrated on the context
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To be concentrated on the speaker
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To be concentrated on the channel
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This type of activity allows students to check their comprehension as they read.
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Post-reading activity
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Pre-reading activity
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While-reading activity
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What is the conative function?
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It is a function used to explain something within or about the language itself or the science.
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It is a function used to control the behaviour of a participant.
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It is a function used to explain something that is always very difficult to understand.
Question 11
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If someone needs to control English for relations with several countries, he/she will need to learn...
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English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
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English as an International Language (EIL)
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English as a Second Language (ESL)
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Communicative competence is said to be...
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The communication produced between individuals.
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The ability to use language with a purpose.
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The competition established between individuals when communicating.
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The subskill inferring consists on...
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understanding the writer's opinions which are not implicitly or directly stated.
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understanding by deducing the meaning of particular words.
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understanding just the inferior or more basic parts of a text.
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What are the procedural or prescriptive texts used for?
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To promote the acceptance of or convince about certain ideas as true or false.
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To demonstrate how to perform things.
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To write medical prescriptions.
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This reading subskill is commonly known as reading just to find a specific piece or pieces of information in it.
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Scanning
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Predicting
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Intensive reading
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It is another skill by which we get an idea about the writer's opinion, feelings or intentions on a topic when information is implied, or not directly stated.
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Skimming
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Inferring
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Scanning
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It gives the sense to the text according to our knowledge of the world.
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Coherence
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Cohesion
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Intertextuality
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Artifacts refers to the study of communication by...
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our physical aspects.
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touch
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eye contact
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The language we use to express a function is called:
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Illocutionary act
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Exponent
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Speech act
Question 20
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The imaginative function is used to...
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create an imaginary system of ideas, or using language for pleasure.
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imagine stories and excuses when you are late to class.
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exclusively to create poetry and songs.
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The personal function is used to...
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create personal poetry and songs.
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create an imaginary system of ideas, or using language for pleasure.
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express feelings, emotions, and personal reactions.
Question 22
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This type of text is used to describe an alternative outlook on reality
Question 23
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According to Jakobson's model, the metalinguistic function is:
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To be concentrated on the context
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To be concentrated on the speaker
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To be concentrated on the code
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It reflects the intentions of producers to create a text, that is, their attitude. A text-producer normally seeks to achieve a purpose or goal.
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Informativity
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Cohesion
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Intentionality
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The regulatory function is:
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To make statements, convey facts and knowledge
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To control events. Not to establish a certain power but to maintain control
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To create imaginary system of ideas, using language for the pleasure of it
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If someone needs to control Legal English, he/she must learn...
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English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
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English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
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English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
Question 27
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In a normal context, the sentence "a foor is a slape with a blotic" does not match...
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Post-reading activities are used to...
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To check the students' comprehension as they read.
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To connect the text and new information with the students' reality.
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To prepare the students about the topic to read.
Question 29
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Within speaking activities, role plays belong to...
Question 30
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The group of functions "structuring discourse" belongs to..
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CEFR (Van Ek's) list of functions
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Jakobson's list of functions
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Halliday's list of functions
Question 31
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According to Halliday, three of the seven basic functions of language use are:
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Conative, poetic and phatic
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Instrumental, personal, interactional
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Getting things dine, structuring discourse, communication repair
Question 32
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When you read a book with your students, using the title, subtitles, and divisions within the text to predict content and organization or sequence of information this type of activity is called:
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Pre-reading activity
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Post-reading activity
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While-reading activity
Question 33
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It concerns the receiver attitude to admit or recognize the relevance of the message.
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Situationality
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Informativity
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Acceptability
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The standard of acceptability refers to the...
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factors that make the use of a text acceptable upon knowledge of one or more previous texts
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receiver attitude to admit or recognise the relevance of the message
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situtation in which an author accepts reality
Question 35
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The values, preoccupations, memories and mental sets that the language user bring with them to the communication is called:
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Linguistic Context
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Social Context
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Emotional context
Question 36
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Receptive or passive skills are:
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Listening and reading
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Reading and speaking
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Listening and writing
Question 37
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Are MULTILINGUALISM and PLURILINGUALISM the same?
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No, whereas multilingualism is the ability to speak several language, plurilingualism makes reference to the adaption of that knowledge to communicate in different cultural situations
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No, whereas multilingualism is the ability to speak several languages, plurilingualism is the ability to read and understand several languages.
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Yes...
Question 38
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Three of the Seven Standards of Textuality are:
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Situationality, intertextuality, semantics
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Both answers are correct
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Cohesion, acceptability, informativity
Question 39
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CLIL is a method in which the "the FL is used as a vehicle to teach and learn both the ... and ..."
Question 40
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'Identify topic sentences and the main idea of paragraphs' can be a sample of this type of activity:
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While-reading activity
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Post-reading activity
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Pre-reading activity
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Question 42
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Coherence in the message means that it must be...
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understood without considering the context.
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related in meaning with a certain context to be correctly understood.
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related to our non verbal language,
Question 43
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It refers to the study of how space and distance influence communication:
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Haptics
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Paralanguage
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Proxemics
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Question 45
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Within speaking activities, drills belong to...
Question 46
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This type of activities is the most important at lower levels of language proficiency and at earlier stages of reading instruction.
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While-reading activity
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Post-reading activity
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Pre-reading activity
Question 47
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In a normal context, the sentence "Some boys is cried which never away are" does not match
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the pragmatical level.
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the grammatical level.
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the ortographical level.
Question 48
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This type of text is used to promote the acceptance of certain ideas as true or false. Relations of reason, significance, volition, value and opposition.
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Argumentative text
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Narrative text
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Expressive text
Question 49
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What is the metalinguistic function?
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It is a function used to explain something that is always very difficult to understand.
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It is a function used to make a reflection about a methodology.
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It is a function used to explain something within or about the language itself or the science
Question 50
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The subskill skimming consists on...
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reading texts about scanners
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reading very quickly to have a general idea of the meaning of the text.
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reading just to find a specific piece or pieces of information
Question 51
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The process of communication through sending and receiving wordless (mostly visual) cues between people is called:
Question 52
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The instrumental function is used to...
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manipulate people
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ask for a tool, like the hammer, when you need it.
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manipulate the environment, to cause certain events to happen.
Question 53
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This type of text is used to demonstrate how to perform things. Relations of purpose and advice.
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Procedural text
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Narrative text
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Argumentative text
Question 54
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In a normal context, the sentence "The rabbit thought that the best way to read a magazine was using glasses" does not match...
Question 55
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A Spanish person who lives in France and studies English at school will have...
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Spanish as L1, French and English as Foreign Language
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French and Spanish as L1, English as L2
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Spanish as L1, French as L2 and English as Foreign Language
Question 56
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This reading subskill involves getting the meaning out of every word and out of the links or relationships between words and between sentences.
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Deducing
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Predicting
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Intensive reading
Question 57
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Linguistic Competence includes:
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morphological and syntactic knowledge, the knowledge of the lexicon and the knowledge of the written code.
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Both answers are correct.
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grammatical competence, the lexical competence and the ortographic competence.
Question 58
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Within speaking activities, the technique cue words belong to...
Question 59
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According to Halliday (1973) communication is...
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The exchange and negotation of information between at least two individuals.
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A form of social interaction taking place in a context.
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The other two are correct.
Question 60
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the processes by which people artificially develop proficiency in a language
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Neither answer is correct
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the processes by which people naturally develop proficiency in a language.
Question 61
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What does proxemics refer to?
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To the study of communication in Greek.
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To the study of how space and distance influence communication.
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To the study of hand, arm, body, and face movements to communicate.
Question 62
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The standard intertextuality refers to the...
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a factors that make the use of a text dependent upon knowledge of one or more previously encountered texts.
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situation in which an author uniquely commits plagiarism
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way in which a text is written, when the author used flashbacks and mixes thosw parts chronologically previous to those ones that take place afterwards
Question 63
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This reading subskill is commonly known a reading for global understanding, usually to get a general idea of what the text is about:
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Skimming
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Scanning
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Inferring
Question 64
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The group of functions getting things done (suasion) belong to...
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Jakobson's list of functions
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CEFR (Van Ek's) list of functions
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Halliday's list of functions
Question 65
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This context often helps in understanding the particular meaning of the word.
Question 66
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Language acquisition is a ... process
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untutored, artificial and subconscious
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tutored, artificial and conscious
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untutored, natural and subconscious
Question 67
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Homer's The Odyssey and James Joyce's Ulysses are an example of:
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Situationality
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Intertextuality
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Coherence
Question 68
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Spanish is B. She is learning English at school. But she lives in Spain and his father is from France. Then, English is considered her...
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Second language (L2)
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Foreign Language (FL)
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Third Language (L3)
Question 69
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The personal function is :
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To manipulate the environment, to cause certain events to happen
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To acquire knowledge, to learn about the environment
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To express feelings, emotions and personal reactions
Question 70
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It refers to how people communicate by the way they dress, the way we live and things that we can carry with us
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Artifacts
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Haptics
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Paralangue
Question 71
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What is the main goal of speaking activities?
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The students must know how to repeat things
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The students must gain accuracy
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The students must gain fluency
Question 72
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Non-verbal communication is that involving...
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Action rather than words, including sounds and paralanguage
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No oral communication or speaking, just communication by writing
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No sounds, just movement
Question 73
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The heuristic function is used to...
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acquire knowledge, to learn about the environment.
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manipulate the environment, to cause certain events to happen.
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manipulate only people.
Question 74
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This type of text is used to portray people, objects or situations; abundance of attributes, states, instances and specifications.
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Descriptive text.
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Expressive text.
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Procedural text.
Question 75
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Productive or active skills are:
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Reading and speaking
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Listening and reading
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Speaking and writing
Question 76
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It refers to the study of hand, arm, body, and face movements
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Paralanguage
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Eye contact
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Kinesics
Question 77
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This type of text is used to arrange actions and events in a sequential order. Relations of cause, reason, purpose, enablement, and time proximity.
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Descriptive text
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Expressive Text
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Narrative text
Question 78
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A sample of a post-reading activity can be:
Question 79
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This reading subskill involves reading the words around an unknown word or thinking about the situation word is used in to try and work out its meaning.
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Deducing
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Predicting
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Inferring
Question 80
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It refers to the study of communication by touch
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Haptics
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Paralanguage
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Proxemics
Question 81
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The subskill predicting consists on...
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using clues before we begin reading to guess what a text may be about
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understanding by deducing the meaning of particular words
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understanding how a story is going to finish