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CSET Spanish Subtest
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Required that immigrants learn English
Segregationalist
Construction of Meaning Approach
Submersion
Nationality Act of 1906
2. Students are taught with simplified vocab
Sheltered English instruction
Connectionism
Common underlying proficiency
Construction of Meaning Approach
3. Two languages in a community
Information processing approach
Diglossia
non - linguistic outcomes
Sheltered English instruction
4. 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
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Biliteracy
Functional Literacy Approach
Codemixing
5. 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
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Translanguaging
Williams v State of California 2000
Accommodation
6. Changing languages at word level
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Late exit bilingual education
Codemixing
Submersion with pull - out classes
7. Type of second language information received when learning language
Language inputs
Literacy
Meaningful output
Language achievement
8. Majority member learning second language without losing first languages
Contrastive Analysis
Audiolingualism
Immersion
Elective bilingualism
9. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Williams v State of California 2000
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Personal factors in language acquisition
10. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language
Educate America Act of 1994
Lau v Nichols 1970
Language inputs
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
11. Decline in speaker's first language proficiency while a second language is being learned
Oracy
Language loss
Structured input
Divergent thinking
12. Humans are cognitively wired for language and have universal - abstract nature of rules that underlie competence
Separate underlying proficiency
Language Acquisition Device
Nationality Act of 1906
Interdependence
13. 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
discourse competence
Proposition 227 of 1998
Threshold theory
sociolinguistic competence
14. Occurs when there are contextual supports and props to support language (functional meaning)
Construction of Meaning Approach
Threshold theory
Whole Language Approach
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
15. Simply reading and writing so one can operate in society (usu. low level) - reading and writing seen as separate skills
Biliteracy
Functional Literacy Approach
sociocultural competence
Williams v State of California 2000
16. People who translate and sometimes transform ideas into socially acceptable terms
Language skills
language brokers
Circumstantial bilingualism
Language Acquisition Device
17. Second language acquisition depends on the extent to which first language is developed
Immersion v Submersion
Acculturation
Interdependence
Information processing approach
18. Refers to those people whose experiences are not well represented by their language and therefore have difficulties expressing their thoughts and feelings verbally
Functional Literacy Approach
lexical gaps
Nationality Act of 1906
Literacy
19. Requires that language sub skills are repeated until they move from being controlled to automatic; difficult to delete.
Language borrowing
Acculturation
Immersion v Submersion
Information processing approach
20. When equal numbers of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization
Language Acquisition Device
Translanguaging
Dual Language education
Structured input
21. 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
lexical gaps
non - linguistic outcomes
Codeswitching
22. Someone who is equally competent in two languages
Language competence
Balanced bilingual
Whole Language Approach
Language skills
23. Outcome of formal instruction
Language loss
strategic competence
Holistic view of bilingualism
Language achievement
24. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts
Accommodation
strategic competence
sociolinguistic competence
Total immersion
25. 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
Immersion
language brokers
Intake
Acculturation
26. Minority language student taught entirely in majority language - first language is replaced. Students cannot develop cognitively
Meaningful output
Submersion
Simultaneous language acquisition
Language inputs
27. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages
Language interference
Meaningful input
Partial immersion
Williams v State of California 2000
28. Awareness of sociocultural context in which language concerned is used by native speakers
Meaningful output
non - linguistic outcomes
sociocultural competence
discourse competence
29. 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
Acculturation
Meaningful input
Holistic view of bilingualism
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
30. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling
Partial immersion
Segregationalist
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Language borrowing
31. Observable - clearly defined components of language
Language skills
Late exit bilingual education
Balanced bilingual
Information processing approach
32. Ability to use appropriate strategies in constructing texts and spoken discourse
discourse competence
Language performance
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Biliteracy
33. Outward evidence of language competence
social competence
Segregationalist
Transitional bilingual education
Language performance
34. 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
Early exit bilingual education
discourse competence
Critical Literacy Approach
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
35. Aim is to be bilingual and bicultural without loss of achievement. form depends on when child begins.
Immersion v Submersion
Total immersion
Late exit bilingual education
Immersion
36. Learn second language with little pressure to replace/remove first
Additive bilingualism
Language borrowing
Subtractive language acquisition
Partial immersion
37. IQ tests - force students to converge onto one answer
Whole Language Approach
lexical gaps
Language achievement
Convergent thinking
38. People have two separate language systems for each language then share a separate non - verbal system that is shared by both
Structured input
Dual Language education
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
Lau v Nichols 1970
39. 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
Lau v Nichols 1970
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
40. Inner - mental representation of language
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Language competence
Early exit bilingual education
Convergent thinking
41. The ability to think about the nature and functions of language
Language Acquisition Device
Accommodation
Separatist Education
Metalinguistic awareness
42. Someone who does not have total competency in either language
Semilingual
sociolinguistic competence
Structured input
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
43. Ralph Yarborough introduced Bilingual Education Act as an amendment. Enacted in 1968. Indicated that bilingual programs were part of the federal education system.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Submersion with pull - out classes
Whole Language Approach
Literacy
44. Two years maximum in mother tongue
Immersion v Submersion
Early exit bilingual education
lexical gaps
Elective bilingualism
45. Allows around 40% of classroom teaching in the mother tongue until the 6th grade
social competence
Personal factors in language acquisition
Late exit bilingual education
Immersion v Submersion
46. 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
Lau v Nichols 1970
Williams v State of California 2000
Information processing approach
Language Competence
47. 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
Williams v State of California 2000
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Semilingual
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
48. Promoted foreign language acquisition due to Cold War; fear that US wouldn't be able to compete in international world
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Total immersion
Nationality Act of 1906
Contrastive Analysis
49. Idea that readers bring their own meaning to text
Proposition 227 of 1998
Construction of Meaning Approach
Intake
Mendez v Westminster 1947
50. Language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics
Semilingual
Submersion
Information processing approach
Audiolingualism