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CSET Spanish Subtest

Subjects : cset, languages, spanish
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding






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






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






4. Minority students in submersion programs but are pulled out to have ESL lessons. Students fall behind on classroom content and seen as remedial






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






6. Both languages operate through the same central processing system






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






8. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning






9. 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






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






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






13. Two years maximum in mother tongue






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






15. People have two separate language systems for each language then share a separate non - verbal system that is shared by both






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






17. 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






18. Context reduced situations: pronunciation - grammar - vocab






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






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






21. 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






22. Can be measured in six different ways. need to measure in ways beyond linguistic competence






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






24. Students are taught with simplified vocab






25. Authorized by Congress in 1978 - allowing native language to be used only as much as necessary to develop English skills






26. Idea that readers bring their own meaning to text






27. Ability to develop appropriate cultural meaning from texts






28. Federal case that determined segregation of Mexican and Mexican - American students in Orange County was unconstitutional






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






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






31. Language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics






32. Inner - mental representation of language






33. What is actually assimilated. more important than input






34. Aim is to be bilingual and bicultural without loss of achievement. form depends on when child begins.






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






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






40. 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






41. Outcome of formal instruction






42. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation






43. Someone who is equally competent in two languages






44. Effect on self - esteem and ego - new cultural reference






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






46. Idea that languages constitute two 'balloons' in the brain and there's only so much room for both of them. Incorrect - languages share






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






48. Two languages in a community






49. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking






50. 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