1. How many word families does an 6. In order to have a good chance of average adult native speaker of English guessing the meaning of an unknown word know? from context clues, what percentage of the running words in the text does the learner A) 150,000 need to know? B) 100,000 A) 78% B) 80% C) 90% D) 98% C) 50,000 7. Which of these most helps vocabulary D) 20,000 learning? 2. If learners know the most frequent 2000 A) meeting or using the word in a new way words of English, what percentage of B) having its meaning explained running words in an academic text will be C) meeting the word in context known to them? A) 60% B) 80% C) 90% D) 98% D) searching for the word in a dictionary 8. Quickly providing meanings for 3. What is the most important factor in unknown words while listening or reading formal measures of readability? A) has little effect on comprehension of the text A) background knowledge B) vocabulary knowledge B) upsets comprehension of the text C) greatly increases the amount of C) reading skill in L1 vocabulary learned D) grammatical knowledge D) results in little vocabulary learning 4. The most effective way of beginning to learn the meaning of a word is by 9. How many closely related members does A) the use of a picture a typical English word family have? A) 3 B) 5 C) 7 D) 9 B) translation into the first language C) a dictionary definition 10. To test learners' productive knowledge of vocabulary we must get learners to D) seeing a word in context A) produce words in spoken or written 5. Initially opposites like hot and cold sentences should be learned B) produce spoken or written forms from a A) at the same time meaning cue B) in quick succession C) produce or recognize spoken or written word forms from a meaning cue C) as part of a bigger lexical set D) produce a first language translation of D) at widely separated times words
1. How many word families does an average adult native speaker of English know? A) 150,000 B) 100,000 C) 50,000 D) 20,000 2. If learners know the most frequent 2000 words of English, what percentage of running words in an academic text will be known to them? A) 60% B) 80% C) 90% D) 98% 3. What is the most important factor in formal measures of readability? A) background knowledge B) vocabulary knowledge C) reading skill in L1 D) grammatical knowledge 4. The most effective way of beginning to learn the meaning of a word is by A) the use of a picture B) translation into the first language C) a dictionary definition D) seeing a word in context 5. Initially opposites like hot and cold should be learned A) at the same time B) in quick succession C) as part of a bigger lexical set D) at widely separated times 6. In order to have a good chance of guessing the meaning of an unknown word from context clues, what percentage of the running words in the text does the learner need to know? A) 78% B) 80% C) 90% D) 98% 7. Which of these most helps vocabulary learning? A) meeting or using the word in a new way B) having its meaning explained C) meeting the word in context D) searching for the word in a dictionary 8. Quickly providing meanings for unknown words while listening or reading A) has little effect on comprehension of the text B) upsets comprehension of the text C) greatly increases the amount of vocabulary learned D) results in little vocabulary learning 9. How many closely related members does a typical English word family have? A) 3 B) 5 C) 7 D) 9 10. To test learners' productive knowledge of vocabulary we must get learners to A) produce words in spoken or written sentences B) produce spoken or written forms from a meaning cue C) produce or recognize spoken or written word forms from a meaning cue D) produce a first language translation of words