· Step 2. Look over the 8 headings given in the table.
· Step 3. Skim each paragraph to identify the topic.
Match the given 8 headings with the 8 paragraphs of the text:
Insertion and alternation
The nature of the conversation
A potential of LaRa
Insights into Lingua Receptiva (LaRa)
The role of proficiency
Codeswitching
Strategies in LaRa
The degree of difference
Identifying where to find information.
· Step 1. Survey introductory and concluding paragraphs, and identify the core ideas of the passage.
· Step 2. Skim the rest of the passage to make sure.
· Step 3. Scan the text to find the correct wording of its main idea, the topic, and the purpose, write out the key words from each paragraph.
· Step 4. Skim the text for examples of descriptions, step-by-step explanations, directions, comparisons and contrasts, analyses, analogies, and definitions.
A/ The main idea is what the author has in mind when s/he is writing a text. Which one of the sentences given below most closely renders the main idea of the text?
1. Receptive Multilingualism activates understanding processes in intercultural and interlingual interactions in which the participants use different languages/varieties as speakers or as listeners.
2. LaRa has become an accepted mode of communication.
3. Creative verbal elements within LaRa result from receptive multilingual discourse.
4. LaRa has a potential for solving communicative problems both by overcoming ideological asymmetries and establishing discursive interculture(s).
5. LaRa enhances the idea of cultural and linguistic diversity and helps immigrants be integrated into 'dominant' society.