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

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    2. Examples of phoneme manipulation include:

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    3. To identify sounds of word helps learners to:

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    4. Phonological awareness means:

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

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    Category: Literacy learning

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

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

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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. Which one is NOT true? Listening skills...

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    Category: Literacy learning

    10. In teaching vocabulary, it is important to:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    11. Multiliteracy pedagogy acknowledges learners:

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    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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    13. Multilingualism:

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    14. Monolingualism:

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

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    16. Metalinguistic awareness and development begins:

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    17. A good way to teach morphological awareness is:

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

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    19. 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

    20. 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

    21. Instructional support means that:

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    22. Teaching through interaction means that:

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    23. Teacher-directed teaching is beneficial:

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    24. Choose the correct process for teaching productive writing:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    25. Which of the following statements about the importance of teaching productive writing is FALSE?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

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

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    27. In phonics-based instruction, one of the repeated processes is NOT:

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

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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. Which of the following is NOT a good way to teach phonics?

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    31. To preventing reading difficulties:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    32. 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

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

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

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    35. A precise estimate of the prevalence of dyslexia in any population is:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    36. In learning to read, it is most important that a child:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    37. Based on neuroimaging studies:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

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

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    39. In shallow and transparent orthographies:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

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

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