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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. Allows around 40% of classroom teaching in the mother tongue until the 6th grade






2. Outward evidence of language competence






3. Two languages in a community






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






12. Idea that readers bring their own meaning to text






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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. Second language acquisition depends on the extent to which first language is developed






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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






26. 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'






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






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






29. 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






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






31. Ability to develop appropriate cultural meaning from texts






32. Includes pressure to replace or demote first language






33. Required that immigrants learn English






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






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






36. Changing languages at word level






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






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






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






40. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking






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






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






43. Majority member learning second language without losing first languages






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






45. Type of second language information received when learning language






46. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages






47. What is actually assimilated. more important than input






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






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






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