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    5 Language Ab Initio Student Workbook

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    This student workbook provides an overview and guidance for a language acquisition course. It covers key concepts in language learning, assessments including portfolios, productive and receptive skills like writing, listening and reading comprehension, and individual oral exams. Strategies are presented to help students successfully complete internal and external assessments through practice exercises and sample responses. The appendices include assessment explanations, additional exercises, answer keys and references.

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    5 Language Ab Initio Student Workbook

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    This student workbook provides an overview and guidance for a language acquisition course. It covers key concepts in language learning, assessments including portfolios, productive and receptive skills like writing, listening and reading comprehension, and individual oral exams. Strategies are presented to help students successfully complete internal and external assessments through practice exercises and sample responses. The appendices include assessment explanations, additional exercises, answer keys and references.

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    This student workbook provides an overview and guidance for a language acquisition course. It covers key concepts in language learning, assessments including portfolios, productive and receptive skills like writing, listening and reading comprehension, and individual oral exams. Strategies are presented to help students successfully complete internal and external assessments through practice exercises and sample responses. The appendices include assessment explanations, additional exercises, answer keys and references.

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    5 Language Ab Initio Student Workbook

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    This student workbook provides an overview and guidance for a language acquisition course. It covers key concepts in language learning, assessments including portfolios, productive and receptive skills like writing, listening and reading comprehension, and individual oral exams. Strategies are presented to help students successfully complete internal and external assessments through practice exercises and sample responses. The appendices include assessment explanations, additional exercises, answer keys and references.

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    Language Ab Initio

    Student Workbook
    Detailed table of contents

    1. Introduction
    2. Target audience
    3. How to use this student workbook
    4. Course overview
    5. Conceptual understanding
    5.1. What are the concepts in language acquisition ?
    5.2. The five conceptual understandings in language acquisition
    5.3. Conceptual understanding in practice
    5.4. How is your conceptual understanding assessed ?
    6. Assessment overview
    6.1. External assessment
    6.2. Internal assessment
    7. The Portfolio
    7.1. Rationale for a Portfolio
    7.2. Possible formats of your Portfolio
    7.3. Your personal topic-based Portfolio
    8. Portfolio samples
    8.1. Developing your Portfolio
    8.2. Your turn
    8.3. A note on Powerpoint/Keynote presentations
    8.4. A note on producing a video Portfolio
    9. Productive skills (Paper 1)
    9.1. Key information
    9.2. About this chapter
    9.3. Using past papers
    9.4. Strategies for successfully completing the Composition component
    9.4.1. During the course
    9.4.2. Before the examination starts
    9.4.3. During the examination
    9.5. Reading the instructions, planning and drafting
    9.5.1. Sample instruction
    9.5.2. Detailed plan
    9.5.3. For the visual learner
    9.5.4. Selecting the most appropriate text type for the task
    9.6. Structuring your writing
    9.7. The text types
    9.8. Your turn
    9.8.1. Personal texts
    9.8.2. Professional/mass media texts
    9.9. General advice on Paper 1
    10. Listening comprehension (Paper 2)
    10.1. Key information
    10.2. About this chapter
    10.3. Listening Comprehension as a discreet assessment
    10.4. Strategies for successfully completing the Listening Comprehension
    component
    10.4.1. Throughout the course
    10.4.2. Before the examination starts
    10.4.3. During the examination
    10.5. Your turn
    10.6. Developing your listening skills
    10.6.1. Practise frequently
    10.6.2. Use authentic resources
    10.6.3. Listen to a variety of formats and content
    10.6.4. Listen with a purpose
    10.6.5. Design your own questions
    10.6.6. Focus on key words
    10.6.7. Listen three times
    11. Reading comprehension (Paper 2)
    11.1. Key information
    11.2. About this chapter
    11.3. Using past papers
    11.4. Strategies for successfully completing the Reading Comprehension
    component
    11.4.1. Throughout the course
    11.4.2. Before the examination starts
    11.4.3. During the examination
    11.5. Your turn
    12. The Individual Oral
    12.1. Key information
    12.2. About this chapter
    12.3. Strategies for successfully completing the Individual Oral
    12.3.1. Throughout the course
    12.3.2. On examination day
    12.3.2.a. Preparation (15 minutes)
    12.3.2.b. The oral exam (10 minutes)
    12.4. The visual stimulus
    12.5. Your turn
    12.6. Further suggestions on how to prepare and practise for your oral
    exam
    12.6.1. Role-plays
    12.6.2. Commercials
    12.7. The teacher’s dos and don’ts for the Individual Oral
    13. Learning a foreign language
    13.1. Music
    13.2. Movies
    13.3. Radio
    13.4. Television
    13.5. Online resources
    13.6. At home and in your community
    13.7. Read, read, read …
    13.8. Note-taking
    13.9. Drills
    14. Appendices
    14.1. Assessments – Key terms explained
    14.2. Further practice on text types and conceptual understandings
    14.3. Chapter 10 : Listening Comprehension – Answer key
    14.4. Chapter 11 : Reading Comprehension – Answer key
    14.5. Reading Comprehension prior to 2020
    14.6. Pre-2020 Reading Comprehension – Answer key
    14.7. References for the extracts in Chapter 11
    14.8. Extension resources to be used with this Student Workbook

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