Direction: MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

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1. Listening comprehension problems are caused by linguistic and non-linguistic factors. Which of
the following is considered a linguistic obstacle?
a. Students fails to concentrate on what is being listened to
b. Student has limited schema or background knowledge
c. Student fails to discern changes into intonation patterns
d. Student has poor listening habits and strategies
2. Which of the following is an important remedial listening strategy for those students who cannot
distinguish between /r/ and /I/?
a. Provide ample exercise on sound discrimination.
b. Give exercises on various intonation patterns.
c. Practice strategies in decoding sight words.
d. Identify liaisons and incomplete plosives.
3. To address listening comprehension problems what must teachers in the remedial class do?
a. Train students in various types of listening.
b. Train students in predicting and inferring strategies.
c. Train students by asking them to listen to native speakers.
d. Train students in distinguishing between British and American English.
4. The following are the ways to improve students’ listening comprehension, except:
a. Practice sound discrimination, liaisons, and incomplete plosives
b. Teach grammar
c. Improve skills in predicting
d. Teach Stress, rhythm, and intonation
5. One of the techniques in teaching pronunciation is minimal pair drills, what do you mean by this?
a. The teacher established the setting or context then key vocabulary is presented.
b. These provide practice on problematic sounds in the target language through listening
discrimination and spoken practice.
c. Articulatory descriptions, articulatory diagrams, and a phonetic alphabet are used.
d. Passages and scripts are used for students to practice and then read aloud focusing on
stress, timing, and intonation.
6. Below are the techniques teacher can use in improving students’ listening comprehension, except:
a. Recognize stressed and unstressed words
b. Enrich vocabulary
c. Teach IPA
d. Practice inferring information not directly stated
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