During a discussion, a teacher provides a list of useful phrases and acts as a quick reference for questions. This illustrates which role?

• A. Facilitation
• B. Exploitation
• C. Extension Task
• D. Formal Assessment

Answer: (A)

Facilitation is about guiding discussion, keeping it productive, and helping everyone contribute. When a teacher provides a list of useful phrases and uses that list as a quick reference for questions, they’re giving students a tool to participate more easily and to shape the dialogue. This creates a supportive structure that invites responses and lowers barriers to speaking up, which is the heart of facilitating a discussion. Exploitation would involve taking advantage of others, extension tasks add extra or more challenging work beyond the main activity, and formal assessment focuses on measuring what students have learned rather than guiding the discussion.