Language Learning and Testing FoundationMLAT-E Part 2
PART 2 – MATCHING WORDS
There are 30 questions in MLAT-E Part 2. The questions test recognition, analogy, and understanding of a far greater range of syntactic structures than the 4 sample questions shown here. Although knowledge of grammatical relationships is measured in this part, no explicit reference is made to grammatical terminology, so grammatical sensitivity is measured without measuring grammatical knowledge gained through formal instruction.
In each of the following questions, we call the first sentence the key sentence. One word in the key sentence will be underlined and printed in capital letters. The task is to select the word in the second sentence that plays the same role in that sentence as the underlined word in the key sentence.
1. Yesterday, Mary caught a FISH at the lake.
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2. Amy SANG a pretty song to her class.
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3. Peter got an ORANGE cat for his birthday.
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4. The furry DOG barked at us as we walked by.
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PART 2 – MATCHING WORDS
Correct answers to Sample Items for MLAT-E Part 2:
1. A mark would be put in the box beneath cake. In the first sentence, something was caught, and the thing that was caught was a FISH. In the second sentence, something was cut, and that thing was a cake.
2. A mark would be put in the box beneath throws because SANG in the first sentence and throws in the second sentence are both the action that occurs.
3. A mark would be put in the box beneath big because ORANGE in the first sentence describes the cat and big in the second sentence describes an apple .
4. A mark would be placed in the box beneath John because the first sentence is about a DOG and the second sentence is about John.