MCQ Bank
In 1988 Sharan and Shachar offered the _____________ strategies used in collaborative learning discussions.
- A) Computer
- B) Teaching
- C) Affective filter
- D) Cognitive
The _________ works as a central process in cooperative learning and confirms its social and democratic nature.
- A) secret
- B) hidden
- C) private
- D) making public
The learner’s behaviour of ‘Silent Reading’ is considered as, _________behaviour involved in non-verbal discourse strategies.
- A) non-verbal
- B) oral
- C) verbal
- D) loud
Challenges to collaboration in a CALL context are problems that arise when the aim of the __________is to promote language learning at the computer.
- A) Apprentice
- B) Pupil
- C) Teacher
- D) Student
Wegerif and Dawes (1998) summarize ______challenges to learning in groups based on a study conducted with primary schoolchildren.
- A) Seven
- B) Eight
- C) Nine
- D) Six
Other perceived problems with _________include the lack of input from some collaborative group members.
- A) collaboration
- B) Working individually
- C) Working privately
- D) Working alone
Repeating what was just read or said is counted under the ___________ category of ‘Verbal Discourse Strategies Responses’.
- A) Creativity
- B) Copying
- C) Original action
- D) Inventive
Ellis (1997) notes that _______ settings are likely to be poor places for learners to acquire language compared to the world outside the classroom.
- A) Home
- B) Business place
- C) classroom
- D) Office
A process in which two or more learners need to work together to achieve a common goal, usually the completion of a task or the answering of a question is known as ___________.
- A) Collaboration
- B) Singular task
- C) One man show
- D) Individual work
The learner’s behaviour of __________ is considered as non-verbal behaviour involved in non-verbal discourse strategies.
- A) Oral presentation
- B) Silent reading
- C) Loud reading
- D) Speaking
The greatest single benefit of ___________ at the computer is in the way in which it serves to reveal information, not just to the learners’ collaborative partners, but also to the learners themselves.
- A) male learning
- B) collaborative learning
- C) female learning
- D) individual learning
In the process of ____________ the learner shows willingness to listen to others’ ideas and suggestions, so that they can be discussed and integrated into further actions like decision making.
- A) Individual work
- B) Collaboration
- C) Singular task
- D) One man show
From the language learning point of view, the benefit of ‘process of negotiating the meaning’ of a task the ________make decisions about the learning materials they study and the ways in which they should study.
- A) teachers
- B) course designers
- C) learners
- D) administrators
An important activity in the classroom which encourages both social and thinking skills and mirrors the way in which learners often need to work in an academic setting is known as __________.
- A) Collaboration
- B) Singular task
- C) Individual work
- D) One man show
Completion of a task or answering a question is known as _________.
- A) consultation
- B) transmission
- C) collaboration
- D) communication
A process in which two or more learners need to work_______ to achieve a common goal, usually the completion of a task or the answering of a question is known as Collaboration.
- A) singularly
- B) together
- C) separately
- D) individually
There are many benefits to collaboration in _______and how collaboration promotes language learning through exposure to new language.
- A) Reading
- B) CALL
- C) Teaching
- D) Presenting
Good learners develop _______motivation for learning; poor learners decline responsibility for learning and depend more on extrinsic rewards or ignore intrinsic and extrinsic rewards altogether.
- A) extrinsic
- B) No
- C) external
- D) intrinsic