What term describes making learners more sensitive to specific language or ideas before an activity?

• A. Sensitise
• B. Homonym
• C. Humanistic approach
• D. Hypotheses

Answer: (A)

Sensitising learners to a target language feature before a task involves priming their attention so they notice that feature when they encounter it. This pre-activity awareness helps learners focus on specific language or ideas during the task and notice how it works in context. That’s exactly what the term sensitise describes: making learners more sensitive to particular language aspects ahead of the activity.

A homonym is a word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning, which isn’t about pre-task awareness. The humanistic approach is a broad teaching philosophy focused on the learner as a whole, not specifically about pre-task focus. Hypotheses are tentative guesses, typically used in research or theory, not a teaching technique for priming learner attention.