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One of the five goals areas of the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning is Communication. In the document’s introduction, Communication is described as the organizing principle for language learning in the following way:
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing
Memorizing vocabulary and grammatical structures
Negotiating, creating, and understanding meaning
Knowing how, when, and why to say what to whom
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What are the modes of communication as defined in the National Standards?
Language Functions, Grammatical Structures, and Vocabulary
Identifying, Describing, Narrating, Persuading, and Hypothesizing
Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational
Asking, Telling, Arguing, and Complaining
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To help students acquire proficiency in communication, an ACTFL position statement recommends:
Students should learn all the grammar rules first and then speak only in complete sentences
Teachers and students use the target language as exclusively as possible (90%-plus) at all levels of instruction during instructional time
Students should only listen and speak in the beginning levels, add writing in the intermediate levels, and read literature in upper levels
Teachers spend more time correcting students’ spoken and written errors
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Examples of Interpersonal communication would include:
Texting messages back and forth with a friend
Participating in an open-ended discussion
Making a reservation on the phone
All of the above
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Examples of the Interpretive mode of communication are:
Listening, reading, viewing
Speaking, writing, visually representing
Both listening and speaking
Using a bilingual dictionary
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Interpretive communication is all of the following except:
Predicting what will happen next in a story
Using the gist to figure out the meaning of new words
Translation
Making inferences based on evidence from an article
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An example of Presentational communication is:
Reading a report written by a peer
Participating in an impromptu debate
Engaging in a conversation via Skype
Writing a new ending for a story
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Students have communicated well if:
Their errors do not interfere with comprehension of the listener, reader, or viewer
They paraphrase when they can’t think of the exact word
They ask their partners to rephrase when they don’t understand
All of the above
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An effective model for assessing the modes of communication is:
Having students memorize dialogues
Using fill-in-the-blank worksheets
Integrated Performance Assessment
(IPA)
Spelling quizzes