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. Examples of phoneme manipulation include:

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    2. To identify sounds of word helps learners to:

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    3. Twenty-first century learning skills do NOT include:

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    4. You can get a child to pay attention:

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    Category: Literacy learning

    5. Development of voluntary attention:

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

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    Category: Literacy learning

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

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    Category: Literacy learning

    8. Based on research, which of the following is NOT an important sub-skill of listening skills?

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    Category: Literacy learning

    9. To become a good reader, it is important that a child:

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    Category: Literacy learning

    10. In teaching vocabulary, it is important to:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    11. Which of the following is an example of a communication mode?

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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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    13. Multilingualism:

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    14. Metalinguistic awareness and development begins:

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    15. A good way to teach morphological awareness is:

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    16. Which of the following is NOT true of text comprehension?

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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. Which of the following best describes the role of phonics in a research-based primary-school reading program in local languages?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    20. Which of the following best describes the primary purpose and function of a classroom reading assessment?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    21. Teacher-directed teaching is beneficial:

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    22. Child-centred teaching means that:

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    23. A teacher needs to inspire and encourage learners to generate ideas for what they want to write by:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    24. Who chooses the appropriate learning time for adult learners?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    25. Why does teaching adult learners require special skills?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    26. When assessing reading in transparent languages:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    27. When assessing reading and spelling:

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    28. After the first school year, the best predictor of spelling skill in transparent languages is:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

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

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    30. Apps for reading development

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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. 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. A reading disorder is a developmental disorder that is characterised by reading achievement (i.e., accuracy, speed, and comprehension) being significantly below standards expected for which of the following:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

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

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    36. Effective interventions for students with learning difficulties typically:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

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

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    Category: Reading difficulties

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

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    Category: Reading difficulties

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

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    40. Based on genetic studies of dyslexia, we know that:

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