PrepTest 153, Section 4, Question 13

What we’re looking for

Working the answers

• A

  Fluent speakers addressing community members fits the recommended speeches. Discussing issues facing the community also gives listeners a practical reason to engage with the language. This belongs with the advocated programs.

• B

  Traditional songs are expressly recommended, and the native-speaking host adds another opportunity to hear the language in use. The songs also introduce learners to its rhythms.

• C

  Elders discussing traditional spiritual beliefs connect fluent language use with the community's culture. Religion wasn't separately listed, but this fits the relevant relationship rather than contradicting it.

• D
  Correct

  This is instruction in rules of grammar and idiom—the lesson format contrasted with the recommended cultural programming. Idioms themselves aren't the problem; the second paragraph values older people helping others understand them. The difference is between learning through meaningful cultural use and a broadcast consisting of rules about usage.

• E

  The anthropologists made the recordings, but the content is the community's folktales recited in its language. That still gives listeners language within an oral cultural tradition. The writer doesn't require every broadcast to be live or every recording to have been made by a community member. E therefore fits better than the detached instructional format in D.