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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. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding






2. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking






3. Language is a matter of habit forming; careful control of input by teacher very important






4. Refers to those people whose experiences are not well represented by their language and therefore have difficulties expressing their thoughts and feelings verbally






5. 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






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






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






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






9. Occurs when there are contextual supports and props to support language (functional meaning)






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. A language minority separates from the language majority in order to protect their language






19. 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






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






21. Idea that readers bring their own meaning to text






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






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






24. 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'






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






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






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






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






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






30. Majority member learning second language without losing first languages






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






32. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling






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






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






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






36. Learning language to survive






37. Changing languages at word level






38. Outcome of formal instruction






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






40. Two years maximum in mother tongue






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






42. Context reduced situations: pronunciation - grammar - vocab






43. Someone who does not have total competency in either language






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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






48. What is actually assimilated. more important than input






49. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts






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