A. HARM B. GARDEN C. VARIOUS D. FARM READ THE...

Câu 2: A. harm B. garden C. various D. farm

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer to each of the questions.

By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can considerably increase

their children’s language development. It is surprising, but true. How parents talk to their children makes a

big difference in the children’s language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to

what the parent is reading, the child’s language skills increase.

A study was done with two or three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the thirty children

participants were in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental

group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended

questions rather than yes-no questions. For example, the parent should ask, “What is the doggy doing?”

rather than, “Is the doggy running away?” Experimental parents were also instructed how to expand on their

children’s answers, how to suggest alternative possibilities, and how to praise correct answers.

At the beginning of the study, the children did not differ on levels of language development, but at the

end of one month, the children in the experimental group were 5.5 months ahead of the control group on a

test of verbal expression and vocabulary. Nine months later, the children in the experimental group still

showed an advance of 6 months over the children in the control group.