Section 3 recording
Planning Child Literacy Research
You will hear two education students, Liam and Maya, discussing their research project on children's reading habits.
2 speakers · Australian and British English · 3:33
In the real test you hear each recording once. Read the questions first, then play it through without pausing.
Go to the questions ↓Questions 1–7
What decision do the students make about each of the following research methods or tasks? Choose 7 answers from the box and write the correct letter, A–I, next to Questions 1–7.
Decisions
- Awill take place earlier than originally scheduled
- Brequires formal permission from headteachers
- Cmight produce unreliable responses
- Dneeds to be reduced in length
- Eshould be carried out after school hours
- Fwill be conducted as a pilot test first
- Ginvolves too much technical equipment
- His likely to be too time-consuming to analyse
- Iwill be removed from the project entirely
1online questionnaires for parents
2in-class reading diaries
3teacher interviews
4focus groups with pupils
5library borrowing records
6audio-recorded storytelling sessions
7book illustration rating task
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