1. Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
Facultad de Educación
Pedagogía en Educación Media en Inglés
Reading comprehension test: Teaching Vocabulary to Advanced Students.
Name: _________________________ Date: ______________ Score: ____ / 30 pts.
Part 1: True or False: Write false or True in the space given. (5 pts.)
1. - true Vocabulary expansion will happen through the practice of other language skills
2. - true Memory and storage system tell us how our memory works might help to create
effective ways to teach vocabulary.
3. - false Production depends on developing receptive skills to acquire vocabulary.
4. - true
Grouping vocabulary by semantic fields, makes easier the learning process.
5. - false Teachers cannot encourage learners to use other methods for learning
vocabulary.
Part 2: Multiple Choice. Circle the right answer. (8pts.)
1. - Homophyny is defined as:
a) Understanding words that have the same pronunciation but different spellings and
meanings.
b) Ability to recognize and reproduce items in speech.
c) Awareness of certain differences and similarities between the native and the
foreign language.
2. - Polysemy means:
a) Distinguishing between the different shades of meaning that synonymous words
have.
b) Being able to distinguish between different levels of formality.
c) Distinguishing between the various meaning of a single word form with several but
closely related meanings.

2. 3. - Choice of material is important, because
a) We wanted to overload students with much reading to acquire vocabulary.
b) We wanted to use authentic material to expose our students to rich, contextualized,
naturally-occurring language.
c) We wanted to save time using the same material for every course every year.
4. - Chunks include
a) Collocations, fixed and semi-fixed expressions and idioms.
b) Adjectives, nouns and adverbs.
c) Collocations, idioms and verbs.
Part 3: Complete with the appropriate words in the given space. (8 pts.)
1. - Guided discovery provide students the opportunity to guess the meaning of a word.
This method is a helpful fashion of to involve students in semantic processing.
2. - With adequate training, dictionaries are an invaluable tool for learners, giving them
independence from the teacher.
3. - Affective meaning distinguishes between the attitudinal and emotional factors, which
depend on the speakers attitude or the situation.
4. - Lewis highlights the importance of vocabulary as being basic to communication.
Part 4: Open questions. Answer the following questions. (9 pts.)
1. - What do advanced students need? (2 pts.)
Advanced students need to broaden their vocabulary to express themselves more clearly
and appropriately in a wide range of situations.
2. - Name the aspects of lexis that need to be taken into account when teaching
vocabulary (4 pts.)

3. There are several aspects of lexis that need to be taken into account such us:
Boundaries between conceptual meaning - polysemy - homonymy - homophyny synonymy - affective meaning - style, register, dialect – translation – chunks - grammar
and pronunciation.
3. - What do Lexical Approach and Task-based Learning have in common? (3 pts.)
Lexical Approach and Task-based Learning have some common principles, which have
influencing foreign language teaching. Both approaches regard intensive, roughly-tuned
input as essential for acquisition of vocabulary and maintain a conversation.