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CSET Spanish Subtest
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Acquires both languages at the same time and prior to the age of 3
Simultaneous language acquisition
Codemixing
Holistic view of bilingualism
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
2. Literacy can be used to maintain hegemony/control masses and it can also be a liberator
Critical Literacy Approach
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Personal factors in language acquisition
3. What is actually assimilated. more important than input
Dual Language education
Intake
Sheltered English instruction
Mendez v Westminster 1947
4. 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
Lau v Nichols 1970
Whole Language Approach
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
lexical gaps
5. Major education reform. set high standards for immigrant communities and continued federal support for bilingual programs. acknowledged benefits of bilingual education
Holistic view of bilingualism
Educate America Act of 1994
Meaningful input
Williams v State of California 2000
6. Changing languages at word level
Codemixing
Language achievement
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
social competence
7. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts
sociolinguistic competence
Sheltered English instruction
social competence
Interdependence
8. Majority member learning second language without losing first languages
language brokers
Diglossia
Elective bilingualism
Literacy
9. Humans are cognitively wired for language and have universal - abstract nature of rules that underlie competence
Lau v Nichols 1970
social competence
Total immersion
Language Acquisition Device
10. Idea that languages constitute two 'balloons' in the brain and there's only so much room for both of them. Incorrect - languages share
Separate underlying proficiency
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Dual Language education
Partial immersion
11. Ability to use particular social strategies to achieve communicative goals - i.e. know when to interrupt - how to initiate conversation
Language achievement
Acculturation
Convergent thinking
social competence
12. Simply reading and writing so one can operate in society (usu. low level) - reading and writing seen as separate skills
Dual Language education
Interdependence
Functional Literacy Approach
Common underlying proficiency
13. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages
Subtractive language acquisition
Language interference
Literacy
Elective bilingualism
14. Inner - mental representation of language
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Nationality Act of 1906
Language competence
15. Ability to use verbal and non - verbal communication strategies to compensate for gaps in language user's knowledge
strategic competence
lexical gaps
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Lau v Nichols 1970
16. Someone who does not have total competency in either language
Semilingual
Language interference
Language borrowing
Submersion
17. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning
Acculturation
Language skills
Intake
Literacy
18. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language
non - linguistic outcomes
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
19. Minority students in submersion programs but are pulled out to have ESL lessons. Students fall behind on classroom content and seen as remedial
Submersion with pull - out classes
Subtractive language acquisition
Immersion
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
20. Outward evidence of language competence
Submersion with pull - out classes
Language borrowing
Language performance
Information processing approach
21. Both languages operate through the same central processing system
Submersion
Common underlying proficiency
Sheltered English instruction
Submersion with pull - out classes
22. Students are taught with simplified vocab
language brokers
Sheltered English instruction
Meaningful output
Williams v State of California 2000
23. 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
Semilingual
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Total immersion
Convergent thinking
24. The ability to think about the nature and functions of language
lexical gaps
Critical Literacy Approach
Immersion v Submersion
Metalinguistic awareness
25. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding
Translanguaging
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Divergent thinking
26. Language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics
strategic competence
Divergent thinking
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Audiolingualism
27. When equal numbers of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization
Additive bilingualism
Dual Language education
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
28. Minority language student taught entirely in majority language - first language is replaced. Students cannot develop cognitively
Biliteracy
Submersion
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Acculturation
29. Learn second language with little pressure to replace/remove first
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Immersion
Additive bilingualism
Language Competence
30. 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
Williams v State of California 2000
Whole Language Approach
Immersion v Submersion
Holistic view of bilingualism
31. 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'
Construction of Meaning Approach
Accommodation
Communicative sensitivity
Elective bilingualism
32. Authorized by Congress in 1978 - allowing native language to be used only as much as necessary to develop English skills
Language skills
Transitional bilingual education
Metalinguistic awareness
Nationality Act of 1906
33. Promoted foreign language acquisition due to Cold War; fear that US wouldn't be able to compete in international world
Separatist Education
social competence
Convergent thinking
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
34. Refers to those people whose experiences are not well represented by their language and therefore have difficulties expressing their thoughts and feelings verbally
lexical gaps
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Williams v State of California 2000
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
35. Language is a matter of habit forming; careful control of input by teacher very important
Literacy
Common underlying proficiency
Audiolingualism
Structured input
36. Two years maximum in mother tongue
Partial immersion
Early exit bilingual education
Immersion
Common underlying proficiency
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
Personal factors in language acquisition
Lau v Nichols 1970
Convergent thinking
Whole Language Approach
38. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation
Language Acquisition Device
Personal factors in language acquisition
Partial immersion
sociolinguistic competence
39. 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
Biliteracy
Contrastive Analysis
Interdependence
40. 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
Contrastive Analysis
Additive bilingualism
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
Circumstantial bilingualism
41. Supreme Court declared a state law prohibiting the teaching of a foreign language unconstitutional under 14th Amendment. Found that proficiency in other language was not 'injurious to health or morals of child
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Oracy
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Early exit bilingual education
42. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking
Additive bilingualism
Meaningful input
Oracy
Educate America Act of 1994
43. Learning language to survive
Circumstantial bilingualism
Language competence
Language skills
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
44. Essentially wanted to end bilingual education - only leaving sheltered English programs. Largely decreased enrollment in bilingual education programs - but still some parents/schools could opt in to bilingual
Dual Language education
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Proposition 227 of 1998
lexical gaps
45. Goal: assimilation. contain bilingual kids but are barely bilingual in nature
Simultaneous language acquisition
Translanguaging
Semilingual
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
46. Skills in literacy of primary language can be transferred to second language
Dual Language education
Critical Literacy Approach
Biliteracy
Divergent thinking
47. A language minority separates from the language majority in order to protect their language
Separatist Education
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Literacy
Intake
48. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling
Language inputs
Common underlying proficiency
Partial immersion
Information processing approach
49. Ability to develop appropriate cultural meaning from texts
Semilingual
Language performance
Additive bilingualism
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
50. Context reduced situations: pronunciation - grammar - vocab
Late exit bilingual education
Contrastive Analysis
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
sociocultural competence