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CSET Spanish Subtest
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Observable - clearly defined components of language
Language skills
Common underlying proficiency
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Language inputs
2. Both languages operate through the same central processing system
Literacy
Circumstantial bilingualism
Acculturation
Common underlying proficiency
3. Plaintiffs sued the state to complain about appalling conditions of public schools. included specific provisions state better bilingual education instruction was needed. State settled and is making changed throughout the state
Williams v State of California 2000
language brokers
Divergent thinking
Common underlying proficiency
4. Effect on self - esteem and ego - new cultural reference
Convergent thinking
social competence
Codeswitching
non - linguistic outcomes
5. When children use their home language as a means of instruction with goal of full bilingualism. native language protected and developed alongside English. minority language used 50%+ of the time. Mostly elementary schools
Language competence
Critical Literacy Approach
Information processing approach
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
6. Decline in speaker's first language proficiency while a second language is being learned
Language performance
Interdependence
Convergent thinking
Language loss
7. Second language acquisition depends on the extent to which first language is developed
Common underlying proficiency
Interdependence
Language Acquisition Device
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
8. What is actually assimilated. more important than input
Transitional Bilingual Education
Literacy
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Intake
9. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Literacy
sociocultural competence
Holistic view of bilingualism
10. Ability for person to come up with multiple answers to a problem (more creative thinkers)
non - linguistic outcomes
Divergent thinking
Interdependence
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
11. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding
Translanguaging
Meaningful input
Whole Language Approach
Separate underlying proficiency
12. Acquires both languages at the same time and prior to the age of 3
Simultaneous language acquisition
Audiolingualism
Common underlying proficiency
Threshold theory
13. Includes pressure to replace or demote first language
Subtractive language acquisition
Metalinguistic awareness
Nationality Act of 1906
sociocultural competence
14. Outcome of formal instruction
Meaningful output
Language achievement
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Submersion
15. Idea that readers bring their own meaning to text
Sheltered English instruction
Whole Language Approach
Audiolingualism
Construction of Meaning Approach
16. Majority member learning second language without losing first languages
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Elective bilingualism
Proposition 227 of 1998
17. Ability to use appropriate strategies in constructing texts and spoken discourse
discourse competence
Subtractive language acquisition
Separate underlying proficiency
Communicative sensitivity
18. Refers to those people whose experiences are not well represented by their language and therefore have difficulties expressing their thoughts and feelings verbally
Dual Language education
Submersion with pull - out classes
Language Acquisition Device
lexical gaps
19. Federal case that determined segregation of Mexican and Mexican - American students in Orange County was unconstitutional
Total immersion
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Simultaneous language acquisition
Separatist Education
20. Major education reform. set high standards for immigrant communities and continued federal support for bilingual programs. acknowledged benefits of bilingual education
Accommodation
sociocultural competence
Acculturation
Educate America Act of 1994
21. Skills in literacy of primary language can be transferred to second language
Language performance
Biliteracy
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Mendez v Westminster 1947
22. Language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics
Language performance
Audiolingualism
Total immersion
Partial immersion
23. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language
Submersion
Literacy
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Literacy
24. Required that immigrants learn English
Semilingual
language brokers
Structured input
Nationality Act of 1906
25. Someone who is equally competent in two languages
Balanced bilingual
Segregationalist
Transitional bilingual education
Diglossia
26. Allows around 40% of classroom teaching in the mother tongue until the 6th grade
Late exit bilingual education
Accommodation
Williams v State of California 2000
Language competence
27. Moving back and forth between registers - dialects - or languages. change languages at phrase level
Codeswitching
Communicative sensitivity
Connectionism
Nationality Act of 1906
28. Type of second language information received when learning language
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Language inputs
Immersion
sociolinguistic competence
29. Idea that the further the child moves to balanced bilingualism - the more likely cognitive advantages exist. 1st threshold: enough proficiency to avoid negative effects. 2nd threshold: enough for advantages to exist
Threshold theory
Language achievement
Language inputs
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
30. Goal: assimilation. contain bilingual kids but are barely bilingual in nature
Subtractive language acquisition
Language inputs
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Separatist Education
31. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation
strategic competence
Personal factors in language acquisition
Lau v Nichols 1970
Balanced bilingual
32. Requires that language sub skills are repeated until they move from being controlled to automatic; difficult to delete.
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Information processing approach
Construction of Meaning Approach
Late exit bilingual education
33. Humans are cognitively wired for language and have universal - abstract nature of rules that underlie competence
Separatist Education
Educate America Act of 1994
Language Acquisition Device
Convergent thinking
34. Students are taught with simplified vocab
Submersion
Transitional bilingual education
Language achievement
Sheltered English instruction
35. Can be measured in six different ways. need to measure in ways beyond linguistic competence
Critical Literacy Approach
Convergent thinking
Language Competence
Contrastive Analysis
36. Supreme Court declared a state law prohibiting the teaching of a foreign language unconstitutional under 14th Amendment. Found that proficiency in other language was not 'injurious to health or morals of child
social competence
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Language inputs
Subtractive language acquisition
37. IQ tests - force students to converge onto one answer
Dual Language education
Transitional bilingual education
Convergent thinking
Contrastive Analysis
38. Ability to use verbal and non - verbal communication strategies to compensate for gaps in language user's knowledge
non - linguistic outcomes
language brokers
strategic competence
Circumstantial bilingualism
39. The ability to think about the nature and functions of language
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Translanguaging
Metalinguistic awareness
Accommodation
40. Starts with 100% immersion in second language - reducing after 2-3 yrs to 80% for next 3-4 yrs - then ending junior schooling with apx. 50% immersion
Contrastive Analysis
Simultaneous language acquisition
Total immersion
Subtractive language acquisition
41. Language teaching is about conveying meaning - focus on socially appropriate forms of communication; suggests learners need to identify some of their own errors. Implicit rule formation rather than explicit habit
Separatist Education
Meaningful input
Transitional Bilingual Education
non - linguistic outcomes
42. Receptive skill: reading - Productive skill: writing
Language inputs
Literacy
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Late exit bilingual education
43. Essentially wanted to end bilingual education - only leaving sheltered English programs. Largely decreased enrollment in bilingual education programs - but still some parents/schools could opt in to bilingual
Educate America Act of 1994
Common underlying proficiency
Proposition 227 of 1998
Sheltered English instruction
44. Language learner is adapting to new culture - degree to which new language is gained depends on degree to which person integrates self into new culture
Educate America Act of 1994
Acculturation
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Information processing approach
45. Two languages in a community
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Personal factors in language acquisition
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Diglossia
46. Brain is a complex network of links between information - links are strengthened when repetitively activated
Connectionism
Structured input
discourse competence
Biliteracy
47. Castaneda argued that Texas school district was violating his children's rights by not offering them bilingual education to help them overcome their language barriers. Decision: district had to provide bilingual education to help students overcome hu
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
language brokers
Literacy
Total immersion
48. Ability to develop appropriate cultural meaning from texts
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Common underlying proficiency
sociocultural competence
Language inputs
49. Inner - mental representation of language
Critical Literacy Approach
strategic competence
Language performance
Language competence
50. Learning language to survive
Communicative sensitivity
Connectionism
Circumstantial bilingualism
Sheltered English instruction