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






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






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. Context reduced situations: pronunciation - grammar - vocab






10. Two languages in a community






11. 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






12. 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






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






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






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






16. Ability to develop appropriate cultural meaning from texts






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






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






19. 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






20. What is actually assimilated. more important than input






21. Acquires both languages at the same time and prior to the age of 3






22. 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






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






24. Two years maximum in mother tongue






25. Someone who is equally competent in two languages






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Outward evidence of language competence






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






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






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






37. Required that immigrants learn English






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






39. Includes pressure to replace or demote first language






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






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






42. Students are taught with simplified vocab






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






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






45. 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'






46. 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






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






48. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking






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






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