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A language teacher enters into casual discussion with the class for a few moments to encourage group social interaction before returning to teaching the day's lesson. What is the term for this? - ✔✔class- centered teaching A syllabus is made up of different elements. The element that refers to how teachers and learners work on the selected substance of the course is which of the following? - ✔✔methodology Any special register of speech used by care-takers to assist infants and young children to learn their mother-tongue is called - ✔✔child-directed speech Which of the following transcriptions best represents the way a native speaker of standard American English would pronounce the word "now? - ✔✔nauw "Noticing" a new language means that learners are paying attention to the ___,____, and_____ of the language - ✔✔form, use and meaning Functional load is - ✔✔the use made of a linguistic contrast in the sound system. The more minimal pairs (pairs of words distinguished by one phoneme only) a contrast between two phonemes distinguishes, the greater its functional load. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) - ✔✔- emphasizes interaction among students and among the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) to work on authentic tasks. One of the goals of CLT is to produce anxiety-free learning as much as possible. A criticism of this method is that there should be more of an emphasis on teaching grammar and linguistic structures. You are an ESOL teacher who is using an integrative approach to teach English language skills and a teaching method that includes presentation, practice and production. What ESOL method are you using to model your teaching strategies? - ✔✔communicative language teaching
You are a teacher who is monitoring your students in your classroom using a formative assessment. You are doing this by checking on students while they are working, collecting work samples and checking their work against rubrics. Using a summative assessment would involve which of the following? - ✔✔use of scoring criteria - points are assigned to each question The ESL teacher is checking to see what types of programs are available under LPAC (Language Proficiency Assessment Committee). What types of programs does LPAC ensure are available to students? - ✔✔It ensures instructional and support programs are made available to ELL students. When a student is in a percentile or a rank of other students, what is the type of criterion being used? - ✔✔norm-referenced The idea that language does not exist in isolation but is linked to the society in which it is used is called what? - ✔✔sociocultural context Embedding is the process of - ✔✔inserting one sentence into another sentence. "We told the teacher that WE LIKED THE WAY SHE TOLD THE STORY" What would be a tenet of a "functional" syllabus? - ✔✔Assumes learner builds a repertoire What would be a tenet of an "informal" syllabus? - ✔✔assumes a learner accumulates and synthesizes the target language and all its components What are the four major processes of speech production? - ✔✔1. Conceptualization (planning the message content)
- formulation (finding the right words and phrases for the message)
- articulation (involvement of the articulatory organs like the tongue and lips)
- self-monitoring (identifying and self-correcting mistakes. Keeping a vocabulary notebook that allows multiple ways of retrieving words should contain four important pieces of information: - ✔✔1. a target word
- a translation
3 stages to learning academic English. - ✔✔beginning stage, middle stage advanced stage Construct definition is a - ✔✔description of the nature of the abilities being assessed. If one is developing an assessment of reading, he must define what is meant by "reading ability." This is construct definition. When the teacher makes vowel sounds, air flows - ✔✔freely through the vocal system Which of the following data, is gained by using CATS? - ✔✔What students have learned ESP is usually classified into two main categories. They are - ✔✔English for academic purposes and English for occupational purposes A student is placed in a transitional bilingual late exit program. How long will the student be in the program at a minimum? - ✔✔6 years The focus on language assessment has changed to reflect the students' ability to communicate. Which of the following types of test is now used for this purpose? - ✔✔integrative Pelmanism refers to any activity that learners have to complete by - ✔✔memorizing objects Discourse analysts work with ____ rather than _____ - ✔✔utterances (sequences of words written or spoken in specific contexts) rather than with sentences (sequences of words conforming, or not, to the rules of grammar for the construction of phrases, clauses and more) term used when speaking of the sequence of strong and weak elements in language? - ✔✔rhythm
Monochronic cultures value - ✔✔punctuality Which of the following is the term for studying how language devices are used to achieve their effect on a reader? - ✔✔- stylists EX:repetition and parallelism. The "uy" in "buy" is a phonetic diphthong, and is represented as - ✔✔[ai] The "iy" is the phonetic symbol for the ___ sound in "read. - ✔✔"ea" Words that have only one morpheme are known as _______ words. Words that have more than one morpheme are known as _____ - ✔✔- monomorphemic
- polymorphemic Phonological variation is a - ✔✔classification tool used to determine dialect using the grammatical aspects of language. This is a little different than phonetic variation , which concentrates on the pronunciation of a word. In phonological variation the emphasis is on the variation of phonemes. Marker (or model) sentences are sentences that are - ✔✔- clear examples of what is being taught in the lesson. --Marker sentences help learners understand the structure, use and meaning of new language. Clipping occurs when a word is - ✔✔shortened without changing the word's meaning Which of the following "Natural Approach Hypothesis" components, includes confidence? - ✔✔affective filter hypothesis There are many types of word formations including - ✔✔coinages, nonce words, borrowing (or loanwords), calquing, and clipping
stand-alone ESL - ✔✔Students are taken out of class for small portions of the day to focus on linguistic development EX: Pull out (elementary) Class period (Middle/High) Resource center (group together students from several classes or schools) Push in (elementary) Newcomer ESL-plus programs main focus is - ✔✔content area instruction. Guessing from context, analyzing, reasoning inductively and deductively, taking systematic notes and reorganizing information fall into the category of what type of learning strategy? - ✔✔cognitive Word formation processes are important for ESL teachers to understand and teach the students. The ESL teacher is going over terms with the students. The teacher asks the students what term is associated with when a word is shortened without changing the word's meaning. The correct student states which of the following? - ✔✔A student states that this is known as clipping. What is the technical term for the relationship between vocabulary and grammar? - ✔✔lexico-grammar When controversial topics like discrimination or prejudice are avoided in a textbook in favor of a more idealistic view, this is called - ✔✔unreality Mrs. Smith is assessing her ELL students in competence and production of vocabulary. She is giving pictures of vocabulary items to identify and categorize. This type of assessment is known as: - ✔✔recognition task Which sentence structure includes both phrases and sentences? - ✔✔clause A Syllabus is a summary that describes in detail the - ✔✔objectives
topics resources main themes philosophy expectations Which of the following would be the spelling of the word "today" according to the phonetic alphabet? - ✔✔tuwdey The "Cognitive Theory" is the exact opposite of "______". The cognitive approach differs because those that believe in "cognitive" or "thinking" theories, believe that a person's mind is actually responding to learning and is not an automatic, almost biological or instinctual response. - ✔✔- Behaviorism When a person is speaking about language learning, what does the term "PPP" mean? - ✔✔presentation, practice, production Another term for the inductive approach where a teacher provides examples of a language item and helps the learners to find the rules themselves is which of the following? - ✔✔guided discovery In many cases, there is no suitable diagnostic test to determine student exceptionalities in the ELL student's first native language. In this case, what is the BEST option? - ✔✔Observation, use of existing diagnostic tests, consultation with family When the conditions of test administration are poor it may result in which of the following assessment related factors? - ✔✔measurement error Which of the following strategies divides students into groups in which each group member is assigned a number 1, 2, and 3? - ✔✔writing collaborative stories The answer to the question of what it means "to know how to use a language" is known as - ✔✔construct definition
The interactional view of language is associated with - ✔✔viewing language as the means for creating and maintaining interpersonal relationships. In regard to the speed used in speaking a second language to learners of this language, it is consistently found that the best aid to comprehension is to - ✔✔speak at a normal rate with extra pauses Stern's proposal considers a syllabus as having several strands to address complementary and interrelated goals. His integrated language curriculum consists of: - ✔✔- language syllabus
- culture syllabus
- communicative activities syllabus
- general language education syllabus What is the approach to literacy that stresses meaning and the experience of creating and understanding text? - ✔✔whole-word method English as a foreign language (EFL) is the term to use where English is being taught where it is - ✔✔neither widely used for communication, nor used as the medium of instruction Interactive dictation happens when - ✔✔- students break into pairs or triads. They then use a piece of written material they are used to and one student reads a few words and the others write them down. Then each student checks their work and each others' work for accuracy. Essentialization is the term used to describe the process by which individuals are - ✔✔individuals are reduced to one of their many identities (e.g. a woman, a student, a foreigner, etc.). They are thus stereotyped accordingly. A "speech community" is a group of people that - ✔✔speak a common dialect shared writing - ✔✔similar to the language experience approach; the only difference is that the students begin to share in decision-making process, although the teacher is still doing all of the writing. Once the students seem to understand the basic sound-symbol relationships, that is, which letters to use to represent sounds in words, it is time to progress to interactive writing.
The look-and-say method and the whole-word method rely on recognizing words through - ✔✔memorization. 3 types of validity - ✔✔construct, content, criterion modification for an ELL student in a content classroom - ✔✔- bilingual dictionary
- working in same lang. groups
- using verbal and written directions a needs assessment is used to determine whether or not students had - ✔✔- experience and skills necessary to do a research project.
- key first step in differentiating instruction SDAIE stands for what? - ✔✔- It stands for Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English.
- This strategy includes the use of simplified English, visual aids, and gesture The ESL teacher and the principal are placing students in the proper classroom. What type of program has about 50% native English speakers and about 50% ELL students? - ✔✔two-way bilingual program. When a teacher uses a technique to get a learner to give information rather than giving it to him it is called - ✔✔elicitation Sounds made by the letters n, l, and j in words are examples of which of the following? - ✔✔sonorants In the context of speaking and pronunciation the English sound system can be divided into two categories. What are they? - ✔✔egmentals and suprasegmentals
