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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. Promoted foreign language acquisition due to Cold War; fear that US wouldn't be able to compete in international world
Holistic view of bilingualism
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
sociocultural competence
Circumstantial bilingualism
2. Someone who is equally competent in two languages
Balanced bilingual
Construction of Meaning Approach
Total immersion
Mendez v Westminster 1947
3. Happens when learner has weak identification with own ethnic group - does not regard their ethnic group as inferior to dominant group - finds their position mobile and wishes to move into 'out - group'
Subtractive language acquisition
Educate America Act of 1994
Accommodation
Sheltered English instruction
4. 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
Language interference
Connectionism
Threshold theory
Acculturation
5. Awareness of sociocultural context in which language concerned is used by native speakers
Biliteracy
Common underlying proficiency
sociocultural competence
Language Competence
6. Majority member learning second language without losing first languages
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Language borrowing
Elective bilingualism
sociocultural competence
7. Both languages operate through the same central processing system
Critical Literacy Approach
social competence
Common underlying proficiency
Personal factors in language acquisition
8. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding
language brokers
Functional Literacy Approach
Translanguaging
Biliteracy
9. 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
Meaningful input
Language performance
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
10. Requires that language sub skills are repeated until they move from being controlled to automatic; difficult to delete.
Information processing approach
sociocultural competence
Balanced bilingual
Transitional bilingual education
11. Skills in literacy of primary language can be transferred to second language
Biliteracy
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Language Competence
Dual Language education
12. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling
Acculturation
Partial immersion
Intake
Language Competence
13. 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
Transitional Bilingual Education
Whole Language Approach
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Language skills
14. Idea that languages constitute two 'balloons' in the brain and there's only so much room for both of them. Incorrect - languages share
Diglossia
Language Acquisition Device
Additive bilingualism
Separate underlying proficiency
15. Language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics
Partial immersion
Submersion
Audiolingualism
Divergent thinking
16. Observable - clearly defined components of language
Structured input
Balanced bilingual
Functional Literacy Approach
Language skills
17. Two years maximum in mother tongue
Additive bilingualism
Subtractive language acquisition
Elective bilingualism
Early exit bilingual education
18. Inner - mental representation of language
Partial immersion
Language competence
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Transitional Bilingual Education
19. Idea that readers bring their own meaning to text
Construction of Meaning Approach
Early exit bilingual education
Divergent thinking
Codemixing
20. When equal numbers of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization
Construction of Meaning Approach
Educate America Act of 1994
Dual Language education
Metalinguistic awareness
21. 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
Proposition 227 of 1998
Contrastive Analysis
Early exit bilingual education
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
22. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts
Codemixing
sociolinguistic competence
non - linguistic outcomes
Literacy
23. Ability to use appropriate strategies in constructing texts and spoken discourse
Diglossia
social competence
discourse competence
Elective bilingualism
24. Learning language to survive
Circumstantial bilingualism
Language competence
Language skills
non - linguistic outcomes
25. Effect on self - esteem and ego - new cultural reference
Acculturation
Oracy
non - linguistic outcomes
Intake
26. Authorized by Congress in 1978 - allowing native language to be used only as much as necessary to develop English skills
Separatist Education
Accommodation
Segregationalist
Transitional bilingual education
27. Receptive skill: reading - Productive skill: writing
Language Competence
Semilingual
Functional Literacy Approach
Literacy
28. Minority language student taught entirely in majority language - first language is replaced. Students cannot develop cognitively
Submersion
discourse competence
Nationality Act of 1906
Diglossia
29. Simply reading and writing so one can operate in society (usu. low level) - reading and writing seen as separate skills
Language inputs
Construction of Meaning Approach
Language skills
Functional Literacy Approach
30. IQ tests - force students to converge onto one answer
Convergent thinking
Contrastive Analysis
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Information processing approach
31. Someone who does not have total competency in either language
Divergent thinking
Elective bilingualism
Semilingual
Critical Literacy Approach
32. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages
Literacy
Threshold theory
Semilingual
Language interference
33. Can be measured in six different ways. need to measure in ways beyond linguistic competence
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
strategic competence
Subtractive language acquisition
Language Competence
34. Goal: assimilation. contain bilingual kids but are barely bilingual in nature
Language inputs
Literacy
Immersion v Submersion
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
35. Aim is to be bilingual and bicultural without loss of achievement. form depends on when child begins.
Audiolingualism
sociocultural competence
Immersion
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
36. Most supported by VII funds. students are temporarily allowed to use native tongue until they are competent enough to move into mainstream education
Codemixing
lexical gaps
Information processing approach
Transitional Bilingual Education
37. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning
Convergent thinking
Language skills
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Literacy
38. People who translate and sometimes transform ideas into socially acceptable terms
Meaningful output
Codemixing
Literacy
language brokers
39. Literacy: learning to read/write naturally for a purpose - for meaningful communication and for inherent pleasure. Reading and writing seen as connected - demands process of learning is interesting and relevant to student
Whole Language Approach
Partial immersion
Threshold theory
Dual Language education
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
Balanced bilingual
Total immersion
discourse competence
Language inputs
41. Immersion: optional - thrives on conviction - students generally start with same lack of experience in second language - additive bilingualism.
Immersion
Metalinguistic awareness
Language achievement
Immersion v Submersion
42. Federal case that determined segregation of Mexican and Mexican - American students in Orange County was unconstitutional
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Diglossia
Contrastive Analysis
43. 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
sociocultural competence
Elective bilingualism
Contrastive Analysis
Threshold theory
44. 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
Submersion with pull - out classes
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Codeswitching
Information processing approach
45. Ralph Yarborough introduced Bilingual Education Act as an amendment. Enacted in 1968. Indicated that bilingual programs were part of the federal education system.
Language competence
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Transitional Bilingual Education
Williams v State of California 2000
46. Outward evidence of language competence
Meaningful input
Language performance
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Language achievement
47. Refers to those people whose experiences are not well represented by their language and therefore have difficulties expressing their thoughts and feelings verbally
Convergent thinking
Codeswitching
Segregationalist
lexical gaps
48. The ability to think about the nature and functions of language
Partial immersion
Early exit bilingual education
Metalinguistic awareness
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
49. 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
Acculturation
Lau v Nichols 1970
Submersion with pull - out classes
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
50. Literacy can be used to maintain hegemony/control masses and it can also be a liberator
Total immersion
Critical Literacy Approach
Elective bilingualism
Language inputs