Concept questions: an effective way of checking understanding of meaning

Silva, Elisabete Mendes

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Concept questions: an effective way of checking understanding of meaning

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dc.contributor.author	Silva, Elisabete Mendes
dc.date.accessioned	2017-01-16T12:08:08Z
dc.date.available	2017-01-16T12:08:08Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	When teaching English as a foreign language it is quite recurrent to ask the following question: ‘Do you understand?’ in order to get feedback on grammar issues or vocabulary comprehension, for example. The most common answer to this question is, most of the times, ‘yes’ which is obviously quite uninformative. Normally, students answer ‘yes’ because they don’t want to look unwise or because they think they understand. However, this very traditional technique is not effective when it comes to understanding the meaning of language items students are learning. We believe concept questions do the trick here. Albeit concept questions are not new, they are still unknown to many teachers. Therefore, this workshop’s main aim is to introduce concept questions as the most effective method of checking understanding of vocabulary items and of more complicated language or grammatical structures. Even though they also require ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers, the key point is to avoid the ‘do you understand?’ question.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	Silva, Elisabete Mendes (2015). Concept questions: an effective way of checking understanding of meaning. I Colóquio Internacional de Línguas Estrangeiras: de uma língua a outra. Bragança	pt_PT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10198/13793
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Escola Superior de Educação	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Concept questions	pt_PT
dc.subject	Teaching foreign languages	pt_PT
dc.subject	Checking meaning	pt_PT
dc.title	Concept questions: an effective way of checking understanding of meaning	pt_PT
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oaire.citation.title	I Colóquio Internacional de Línguas Estrangeiras: de uma língua a outra	pt_PT
person.familyName	Silva
person.givenName	Elisabete Mendes
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