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CSET Spanish Subtest

Subjects : cset, languages, spanish
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What is actually assimilated. more important than input






2. Goal: assimilation. contain bilingual kids but are barely bilingual in nature






3. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking






4. Most supported by VII funds. students are temporarily allowed to use native tongue until they are competent enough to move into mainstream education






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






6. Brain is a complex network of links between information - links are strengthened when repetitively activated






7. Ralph Yarborough introduced Bilingual Education Act as an amendment. Enacted in 1968. Indicated that bilingual programs were part of the federal education system.






8. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language






9. Ability for person to come up with multiple answers to a problem (more creative thinkers)






10. 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






11. Minority language student taught entirely in majority language - first language is replaced. Students cannot develop cognitively






12. Immersion: optional - thrives on conviction - students generally start with same lack of experience in second language - additive bilingualism.






13. 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






14. The ability to think about the nature and functions of language






15. Learn second language with little pressure to replace/remove first






16. Required that immigrants learn English






17. 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'






18. Observable - clearly defined components of language






19. Literacy can be used to maintain hegemony/control masses and it can also be a liberator






20. Ability to develop appropriate cultural meaning from texts






21. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling






22. Promoted foreign language acquisition due to Cold War; fear that US wouldn't be able to compete in international world






23. Receptive skill: reading - Productive skill: writing






24. Inner - mental representation of language






25. Major education reform. set high standards for immigrant communities and continued federal support for bilingual programs. acknowledged benefits of bilingual education






26. Two years maximum in mother tongue






27. Idea that readers bring their own meaning to text






28. 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






29. IQ tests - force students to converge onto one answer






30. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages






31. Requires that language sub skills are repeated until they move from being controlled to automatic; difficult to delete.






32. Foreign words that have become permanent part of recipient language. part of continuum of codeswitching






33. Acquires both languages at the same time and prior to the age of 3






34. Moving back and forth between registers - dialects - or languages. change languages at phrase level






35. Ability to use verbal and non - verbal communication strategies to compensate for gaps in language user's knowledge






36. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts






37. Bilingual doesn't equal two monolinguals in one person - can't measure against native speaker. Different languages in different contexts






38. Decline in speaker's first language proficiency while a second language is being learned






39. Humans are cognitively wired for language and have universal - abstract nature of rules that underlie competence






40. Someone who is equally competent in two languages






41. Ability to use particular social strategies to achieve communicative goals - i.e. know when to interrupt - how to initiate conversation






42. Skills in literacy of primary language can be transferred to second language






43. Simply reading and writing so one can operate in society (usu. low level) - reading and writing seen as separate skills






44. Minority language speakers are denied access to programs/schools






45. Ability to use appropriate strategies in constructing texts and spoken discourse






46. People who translate and sometimes transform ideas into socially acceptable terms






47. Awareness of sociocultural context in which language concerned is used by native speakers






48. When equal numbers of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization






49. Two languages in a community






50. Changing languages at word level