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Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - Spoken Language
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Studying spoken language, how we speak, can be fascinating. When you transcribe recorded speech you become aware of the difference between writing and speech. Spontaneous speech contains repetition, fillers, hesitations, interruptions, unfinished sentences and sentences which appear ungrammatical. A good dialog, or speaking with others, also involves turn-taking and cooperation.

Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - Spoken Language
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10 Questions

1. What is a transcript?
2. What does 'stress' mean in the context of spoken language?
3. Someone who speaks without much repetition or many fillers, pauses, or false starts would be described as...
4. When more than one person speaks at a time, ......... occurs.
5. Someone who speaks without much repetition or many fillers, pauses, or false starts would be described as...
6. Which one of the following is a reason why one speaker might interrupt another?
7. In a transcript, which of the following represents a micro pause?
8. What does 'stress' mean in the context of spoken language?
9. Which one of the following is a reason why one speaker might interrupt another?
10. When more than one person speaks at a time, ......... occurs.