Language Learning and Testing FoundationMLAT-ES Parte 2
PART 2 – MATCHING WORDS
There are 30 questions in MLAT-ES 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. Ayer, María rompió el VIDRIO.
la
un
.
2. Beatriz CANTÓ una canción bonita a su clase.
al
.
3. Pedro recibió un gato BLANCO por su cumpleaños.
Mi
una
el
.
4. El PERRO peludo ladraba toda la noche.
a la
pan
?
PART 2 – MATCHING WORDS
Correct answers to Sample Items for MLAT-ES Parte 2:
1. A mark would be put in the box beneath torta. In the first sentence, something was broken, and the thing that was broken was a VIDRIO (window). In the second sentence, something was cut, and that thing was a torta (cake).
2. A mark would be put in the box beneath tira because CANTÓ (sang) in the first sentence and tira (throws) in the second sentence are both the action that occurs.
3. A mark would be put in the box beneath grande because BLANCO (white) in the first sentence describes the cat and grande (big) in the second sentence describes an apple.
4. A mark would be placed in the box beneath Paco because the first sentence is about a PERRO (dog) and the second sentence is about Paco.