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Oral Language & Listening Comprehension Flashcards

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  1. A student hears: 'Although it was raining heavily, Maria decided to walk to the store.' What is the relationship between the two clauses?

    Answer: Contrast or concession

    The word 'although' signals a concessive relationship, meaning the second action happened despite the first.

  2. Which WIAT-4 task requires a student to listen to a sentence and then repeat it verbatim?

    Answer: Sentence Repetition

    Sentence Repetition directly measures a student's ability to hold and reproduce spoken sentences accurately.

  3. A child consistently omits the subject of sentences when speaking, saying 'Went to the park' instead of 'I went to the park.' This most likely reflects a deficit in:

    Answer: Morphosyntactic production

    Omitting obligatory sentence subjects is a morphosyntactic production error affecting grammatical sentence structure.

  4. On the WIAT Listening Comprehension subtest, a student hears a passage and must answer questions about it. Which cognitive skill is LEAST directly measured by this task?

    Answer: Oral reading fluency

    Oral reading fluency requires decoding printed text, which is not involved in a purely auditory listening comprehension task.

  5. When evaluating a student's oral expression, an examiner notes frequent use of vague language like 'stuff' and 'things' instead of specific nouns. This pattern most directly suggests a weakness in:

    Answer: Word retrieval

    Using vague placeholders instead of specific words is a hallmark of word-finding or word-retrieval difficulties.

  6. A student listens to the following riddle: 'I have hands but no fingers. I have a face but no eyes. What am I?' Understanding this riddle requires:

    Answer: Interpreting figurative and non-literal language

    Riddles depend on recognizing that words like 'hands' and 'face' are used in non-literal, figurative senses.

  7. Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Oral Word Fluency task on the WIAT?

    Answer: Assessing how many words a student can generate in a category within a time limit

    Oral Word Fluency measures lexical retrieval speed and breadth by having students name as many items in a given category as possible.