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CSET Spanish Subtest
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1. Someone who does not have total competency in either language
Sheltered English instruction
Meaningful output
Semilingual
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
2. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation
Language skills
Literacy
Personal factors in language acquisition
Submersion
3. Both languages operate through the same central processing system
language brokers
Common underlying proficiency
Transitional Bilingual Education
Elective bilingualism
4. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language
Common underlying proficiency
language brokers
Immersion
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
5. People who translate and sometimes transform ideas into socially acceptable terms
Language competence
Language Competence
sociocultural competence
language brokers
6. Two years maximum in mother tongue
Early exit bilingual education
Educate America Act of 1994
language brokers
lexical gaps
7. Awareness of sociocultural context in which language concerned is used by native speakers
Construction of Meaning Approach
lexical gaps
sociocultural competence
Convergent thinking
8. Ability for person to come up with multiple answers to a problem (more creative thinkers)
Language competence
Language achievement
Language performance
Divergent thinking
9. Can be measured in six different ways. need to measure in ways beyond linguistic competence
Translanguaging
Convergent thinking
Language Competence
Submersion with pull - out classes
10. 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
Translanguaging
Biliteracy
Whole Language Approach
Structured input
11. 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
Segregationalist
Meaningful input
Holistic view of bilingualism
12. 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
Transitional Bilingual Education
Total immersion
Balanced bilingual
13. Two languages in a community
Diglossia
Personal factors in language acquisition
Literacy
Functional Literacy Approach
14. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking
Oracy
discourse competence
Dual Language education
Contrastive Analysis
15. Occurs when there are contextual supports and props to support language (functional meaning)
Language inputs
Transitional Bilingual Education
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
16. Language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics
Audiolingualism
Communicative sensitivity
Functional Literacy Approach
strategic competence
17. Minority language student taught entirely in majority language - first language is replaced. Students cannot develop cognitively
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Submersion
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Immersion
18. Minority language speakers are denied access to programs/schools
Language inputs
Language borrowing
Functional Literacy Approach
Segregationalist
19. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding
Educate America Act of 1994
Translanguaging
lexical gaps
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
20. 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
Circumstantial bilingualism
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Literacy
21. Minority students in submersion programs but are pulled out to have ESL lessons. Students fall behind on classroom content and seen as remedial
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Submersion with pull - out classes
social competence
Structured input
22. 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
Literacy
Balanced bilingual
Threshold theory
Early exit bilingual education
23. Ability to use particular social strategies to achieve communicative goals - i.e. know when to interrupt - how to initiate conversation
Transitional Bilingual Education
Immersion v Submersion
Language competence
social competence
24. Moving back and forth between registers - dialects - or languages. change languages at phrase level
language brokers
Simultaneous language acquisition
Biliteracy
Codeswitching
25. Context reduced situations: pronunciation - grammar - vocab
Dual Language education
Contrastive Analysis
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Language interference
26. 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
Personal factors in language acquisition
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Contrastive Analysis
Literacy
27. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning
Literacy
Segregationalist
Meaningful output
Language skills
28. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling
Language performance
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Partial immersion
Circumstantial bilingualism
29. Type of second language information received when learning language
Language inputs
Separate underlying proficiency
Information processing approach
Intake
30. 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
Accommodation
Structured input
Total immersion
Whole Language Approach
31. Goal: assimilation. contain bilingual kids but are barely bilingual in nature
Accommodation
Convergent thinking
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Additive bilingualism
32. When equal numbers of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization
Lau v Nichols 1970
Dual Language education
strategic competence
language brokers
33. Majority member learning second language without losing first languages
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Sheltered English instruction
Elective bilingualism
34. Learning language to survive
Submersion with pull - out classes
Threshold theory
Circumstantial bilingualism
Subtractive language acquisition
35. Most supported by VII funds. students are temporarily allowed to use native tongue until they are competent enough to move into mainstream education
strategic competence
Transitional Bilingual Education
Translanguaging
Lau v Nichols 1970
36. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages
Common underlying proficiency
Critical Literacy Approach
Language interference
Elective bilingualism
37. Requires that language sub skills are repeated until they move from being controlled to automatic; difficult to delete.
non - linguistic outcomes
Nationality Act of 1906
Language performance
Information processing approach
38. Simply reading and writing so one can operate in society (usu. low level) - reading and writing seen as separate skills
Functional Literacy Approach
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Translanguaging
Proposition 227 of 1998
39. Skills in literacy of primary language can be transferred to second language
Biliteracy
Educate America Act of 1994
Simultaneous language acquisition
Semilingual
40. 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
Codeswitching
Separate underlying proficiency
Language inputs
Williams v State of California 2000
41. Decline in speaker's first language proficiency while a second language is being learned
discourse competence
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Language loss
Separatist Education
42. Refers to those people whose experiences are not well represented by their language and therefore have difficulties expressing their thoughts and feelings verbally
Simultaneous language acquisition
Language skills
lexical gaps
Whole Language Approach
43. Allows around 40% of classroom teaching in the mother tongue until the 6th grade
Language loss
Critical Literacy Approach
Language skills
Late exit bilingual education
44. Immersion: optional - thrives on conviction - students generally start with same lack of experience in second language - additive bilingualism.
Subtractive language acquisition
Language loss
Immersion v Submersion
Common underlying proficiency
45. Foreign words that have become permanent part of recipient language. part of continuum of codeswitching
Balanced bilingual
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Language borrowing
Immersion
46. Ralph Yarborough introduced Bilingual Education Act as an amendment. Enacted in 1968. Indicated that bilingual programs were part of the federal education system.
Early exit bilingual education
Language Competence
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Oracy
47. 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
Balanced bilingual
Williams v State of California 2000
Transitional bilingual education
Acculturation
48. Required that immigrants learn English
Proposition 227 of 1998
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
Nationality Act of 1906
Accommodation
49. 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
Critical Literacy Approach
Acculturation
Elective bilingualism
50. 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'
strategic competence
Accommodation
Construction of Meaning Approach
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
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