Regarding the distinction between focus on form and focus on forms in language teaching, mark T for true and F for false.

(__)Focus on form may involve brief attention to a linguistic feature that becomes relevant during an activity whose primary orientation remains meaning and communication.

(__)Focus on forms typically organizes instruction around linguistic items selected and sequenced in advance, with the forms themselves functioning as major units of pedagogical organization.

(__)The presence of any explicit grammatical explanation during a communicative task necessarily converts the lesson into a focus-on-forms approach.

(__)A teacher who momentarily draws attention to a recurrent grammatical problem emerging during negotiation of a task can preserve the communicative orientation of the activity.



The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is:

Match the interactional strategies in Column I with the turns in Column II.
COLUMN I
1.Confirmation check. 2.Clarification request. 3.Circumlocution. 4.Self-repair.
COLUMN II
(__)So by "implicit criterion," do you mean a criterion that was never explicitly communicated to the students?
(__)Could you explain what you mean by "uptake" in this context? 
(__)They used the... the device that measures how loud the sound is.
(__)The meeting was on Thursday — sorry, I mean Tuesday.


The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is:

Match the information-structure configurations in Column I with the prosodic interpretations in Column II.

COLUMN I
1.Broad focus. 2.Narrow focus. 3.Corrective focus. 4.Deaccenting of given information.
COLUMN II
(__)Prominence is concentrated on a constituent that replaces or rejects an explicitly activated alternative in the preceding discourse.

(__)Previously established material receives reduced prominence because it contributes relatively little new information.

(__)A relatively large constituent, potentially the entire proposition, is presented as new information without contrast being restricted to one lexical item.

(__)Prominence identifies one constituent as the principal informational contribution while the remainder is treated as backgrounded or presupposed.



The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is: