Teacher Certification

    Background

    This Teacher Certification module was developed to give You feedback, how well You master the research-based content of Literacy learning, Literacy teaching and Reading difficulties. If you successfully complete the module, you will receive a Certificate of Completion that enhances Your professional development.

    How to start?

    Before you start to study eTALE Africa learning content, we highly recommend You do first a “pretest” by answering 40 random multiple-choice questions. Note that there is only one correct answer for each question (a, b, c or d). You will have one hour to complete the pretest. After answering to all 40 questions, you will receive immediate feedback how well You did.

    How to do the test?

    If You already are an expert in the content and receive at least 70% (28 out of 40 questions correct) in the pretest, you will automatically receive the Certificate to your email. You can save and print it as a demonstration of your knowledge in literacy learning and teaching and reading difficulties.

    What if I do not get 70% in pretest?

    If You don’t get 70% in the pretest, do not worry. The “pretest” is the starting point of eTALE Africa eLearning environment! When You have gone through and studied the content, you can do the “post-test” or “final examination”. You can do the test as many times as you like. But note the questions will not be the same or in same order.

    When You have answered correctly least to 28 questions (that is 70% and above), the Certificate is send to Your email.

    Parts of the eTALE Africa content may seem challenging and the test might not be an easy task! But remember, You can always read a little bit more and do the test again.

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    Category: Literacy learning

    1. The external factor that can be harmful to children’s learning to read is:

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    Category: Literacy learning

    2. What would be a good starting point for teaching letter sounds?

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    Category: Literacy learning

    3. To identify sounds of word helps learners to:

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    4. The skill of identifying and producing rhyming words is useful for:

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    Category: Literacy learning

    5. Which of these does NOT make a child a good reader?

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    Category: Literacy learning

    6. A common manifestation of weak cognitive or mental flexibility in children is NOT:

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    Category: Literacy learning

    7. To increase reading motivation, it is important that:

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    Category: Literacy learning

    8. A child shows intrinsic motivation when:

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    Category: Literacy learning

    9. In teaching motor and visuo-motor skills, it is important to:

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    Category: Literacy learning

    10. Which one of these is NOT a good strategy to reduce working memory load when a child has problems with working memory?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    11. Which of the following is an example of a semiotic system?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    12. Multiliteracy pedagogy stresses the need for language and literacy education to take into account:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    13. Many countries around the world are promoting multilingualism, even in places where multilingualism is absent from official educational policy, because multilingualism has been shown to have several advantages. These advantages do NOT include:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    14. Multilingualism:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    15. Which of the following is NOT a level at which phonological awareness is taught?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    16. A good way to teach morphological awareness is:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    17. Which of the following activities would be most appropriate for introducing pre-primary learners (5-6 year old children) to the alphabetic principle?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    18. Which of the following teacher prompts would be most appropriate to use to promote pre-primary learners’ (5-6 year old children) phonemic awareness skills?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    19. Organisational support in teaching means:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    20. Teaching through interaction means that:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    21. Teacher-directed teaching is beneficial:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    22. Why do not adult learners spend all day learning, as children do?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    23. When assessing reading in transparent languages:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    24. When beginning to teach a new phoneme, it is useful to tell a story because:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    25. When supporting text composition:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    26. When spelling in transparent languages (e.g., bantu languages):

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    27. Which of the following is NOT a psychological benefit of listening to stories?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    28. Which of the following is not beneficial for listening to stories?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    29. A benefit of using messaging apps (e.g.WhatsApp) in teaching is:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    30. Which of the following is NOT considered a benefit of ICT usage?

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    31. In learning to read, it is important that:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    32. Part-time special education in grades one and two:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    33. For very young children, the reading environment in the home is strongly linked to their emergent literacy skills before entering school. Which of these is NOT an important aspect of the home literacy environment:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    34. We can say that a child has dyslexia or a reading disability when we are sure that:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    35. Which of the following is INCORRECT based on research? Fundamental principles for interventions for word-level reading difficulties include:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    36. Based on research, which of these statements is INCORRECT. Intensity of reading instruction and intervention can be increased by:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    37. Screening instruments used in prevention programs for reading difficulties do NOT usually assess which of the following skills?

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    38. Which of the following is the most effective method for improving literacy in children and adolescents with reading difficulties?

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    39. The main idea of a multi-tiered system of support in instruction is that:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    40. Based on research, we know that the most effective intervention for reading difficulties is:

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