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CSET Spanish Subtest
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1. Allows around 40% of classroom teaching in the mother tongue until the 6th grade
Proposition 227 of 1998
Transitional bilingual education
Late exit bilingual education
Construction of Meaning Approach
2. 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
Semilingual
Information processing approach
Common underlying proficiency
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
3. 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
Submersion
Oracy
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Threshold theory
4. Authorized by Congress in 1978 - allowing native language to be used only as much as necessary to develop English skills
Language Competence
strategic competence
Transitional bilingual education
Lau v Nichols 1970
5. Ralph Yarborough introduced Bilingual Education Act as an amendment. Enacted in 1968. Indicated that bilingual programs were part of the federal education system.
Critical Literacy Approach
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Diglossia
Additive bilingualism
6. Aim is to be bilingual and bicultural without loss of achievement. form depends on when child begins.
discourse competence
Immersion
social competence
Interdependence
7. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking
Codeswitching
non - linguistic outcomes
Elective bilingualism
Oracy
8. Differences between two languages that might pose problems for the teacher/students - was later found that many errors couldn't be explained through a negative transfer from the first to second language
Contrastive Analysis
Convergent thinking
Early exit bilingual education
Williams v State of California 2000
9. Ability to use particular social strategies to achieve communicative goals - i.e. know when to interrupt - how to initiate conversation
Separate underlying proficiency
social competence
Language Competence
Language Acquisition Device
10. When equal numbers of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization
Sheltered English instruction
Dual Language education
Subtractive language acquisition
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
11. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Separate underlying proficiency
Proposition 227 of 1998
Language performance
12. Occurs when there are contextual supports and props to support language (functional meaning)
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Nationality Act of 1906
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Elective bilingualism
13. Foreign words that have become permanent part of recipient language. part of continuum of codeswitching
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Language borrowing
Convergent thinking
Late exit bilingual education
14. 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
Acculturation
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Biliteracy
Critical Literacy Approach
15. Need to emphasize speaking and writing (ability to communicate with others) in addition to input (listening and reading) in the classroom
Meaningful output
Language inputs
Codeswitching
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
16. Chinese student against San Francisco School District - said that students didn't receive equal education when taught in language they don't understand. Result: ESL classes - English tutoring and bilingual education for English Language Learners
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Lau v Nichols 1970
Simultaneous language acquisition
Transitional Bilingual Education
17. Second language acquisition depends on the extent to which first language is developed
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Diglossia
Interdependence
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
18. Literacy can be used to maintain hegemony/control masses and it can also be a liberator
Audiolingualism
Convergent thinking
Critical Literacy Approach
Language borrowing
19. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts
Circumstantial bilingualism
discourse competence
Codeswitching
sociolinguistic competence
20. Language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics
Audiolingualism
Translanguaging
Partial immersion
Meaningful output
21. Inner - mental representation of language
Interdependence
Audiolingualism
Language competence
Williams v State of California 2000
22. Minority students in submersion programs but are pulled out to have ESL lessons. Students fall behind on classroom content and seen as remedial
Separatist Education
Submersion with pull - out classes
Proposition 227 of 1998
Language inputs
23. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling
social competence
Partial immersion
Late exit bilingual education
Separate underlying proficiency
24. Refers to those people whose experiences are not well represented by their language and therefore have difficulties expressing their thoughts and feelings verbally
language brokers
Nationality Act of 1906
lexical gaps
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
25. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation
Personal factors in language acquisition
Educate America Act of 1994
sociocultural competence
Acculturation
26. Acquires both languages at the same time and prior to the age of 3
Diglossia
Simultaneous language acquisition
Additive bilingualism
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
27. 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
Metalinguistic awareness
Language achievement
Proposition 227 of 1998
Acculturation
28. Immersion: optional - thrives on conviction - students generally start with same lack of experience in second language - additive bilingualism.
Immersion v Submersion
Subtractive language acquisition
lexical gaps
discourse competence
29. Both languages operate through the same central processing system
Language Competence
Submersion
Common underlying proficiency
Convergent thinking
30. Ability to use verbal and non - verbal communication strategies to compensate for gaps in language user's knowledge
Metalinguistic awareness
Immersion
Language performance
strategic competence
31. Minority language student taught entirely in majority language - first language is replaced. Students cannot develop cognitively
Additive bilingualism
sociolinguistic competence
Communicative sensitivity
Submersion
32. Observable - clearly defined components of language
Dual Language education
Language skills
Translanguaging
Nationality Act of 1906
33. Effect on self - esteem and ego - new cultural reference
Oracy
non - linguistic outcomes
Total immersion
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
34. 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
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Immersion v Submersion
Interdependence
Meaningful input
35. Moving back and forth between registers - dialects - or languages. change languages at phrase level
Language skills
Immersion
Codeswitching
Holistic view of bilingualism
36. People have two separate language systems for each language then share a separate non - verbal system that is shared by both
Communicative sensitivity
Language interference
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
Language competence
37. Awareness of sociocultural context in which language concerned is used by native speakers
sociocultural competence
Williams v State of California 2000
Total immersion
Metalinguistic awareness
38. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning
Simultaneous language acquisition
Literacy
Language skills
Balanced bilingual
39. Type of second language information received when learning language
Codeswitching
Proposition 227 of 1998
Transitional Bilingual Education
Language inputs
40. Context reduced situations: pronunciation - grammar - vocab
Segregationalist
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Meaningful output
language brokers
41. A language minority separates from the language majority in order to protect their language
Separatist Education
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Additive bilingualism
Semilingual
42. Awareness of social nature and communicative functions of language (when to use which language - etc.). Allows bilinguals to correct errors faster and understand needs of listener
Communicative sensitivity
Separate underlying proficiency
Williams v State of California 2000
Transitional bilingual education
43. 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
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Common underlying proficiency
strategic competence
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
44. 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
Diglossia
Language Acquisition Device
sociocultural competence
45. Changing languages at word level
Codemixing
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Structured input
Translanguaging
46. Bilingual doesn't equal two monolinguals in one person - can't measure against native speaker. Different languages in different contexts
Communicative sensitivity
social competence
Holistic view of bilingualism
Language interference
47. Required that immigrants learn English
Communicative sensitivity
Williams v State of California 2000
Nationality Act of 1906
Convergent thinking
48. What is actually assimilated. more important than input
Proposition 227 of 1998
Subtractive language acquisition
Language borrowing
Intake
49. Someone who is equally competent in two languages
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Intake
Acculturation
Balanced bilingual
50. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Functional Literacy Approach
Translanguaging
Late exit bilingual education