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

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    3. A transparent language has the following characteristics:

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    4. Why is letter knowledge important for literacy development?

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    5. The method of promoting the development of phonemic awareness in young children is:

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    Category: Literacy learning

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

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    Category: Literacy learning

    7. Which of these is NOT part of the executive functions of the brain?

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    Category: Literacy learning

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

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    Category: Literacy learning

    9. Fine motor skills are NOT that important in:

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    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. 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

    13. Which of these is NOT a metalinguistic skill?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    14. Steps of teaching reading comprehension when the child masters the basic reading skills.

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    15. 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

    16. A pre-primary school teacher orally presents learners with pairs of words (e.g., buy/tie, see/saw) and has learners identify whether the words rhyme or not. Next, she says a list of one-syllable words and asks learners to point to a part of the body that rhymes with each word (e.g., the teacher says bed, and the learners point to their heads). These activities promote learners’ reading development primarily by:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    17. Instructional support means that:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    18. Emotional support in teaching means that:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    19. Choose the correct process for teaching productive writing:

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    20. How can you help adult learners become fluent in reading?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    21. When can adult learners begin to learn to read phrases and sentences?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

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

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    23. How can you manage adult learners during literacy learning sessions?

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    24. When assessing reading and spelling:

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

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    26. Phonics-based instruction:

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    27. How should a teacher NOT help children with spelling difficulties?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    28. Apps for reading development

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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. Blended learning is:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

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

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    32. To preventing reading difficulties:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    33. Which of the following modalities is the most beneficial in learning to read:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    34. 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

    35. Based on research, which of the following is NOT true:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

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

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    37. Based on research, which of these statements is NOT true?

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    38. Spoken language skills:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    39. The orthographic structure of a language is:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    40. The most prominent characteristic of reading disability (dyslexia) is:

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