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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. Need to emphasize speaking and writing (ability to communicate with others) in addition to input (listening and reading) in the classroom






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. Outward evidence of language competence






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






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






22. Changing languages at word level






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling






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






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'






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






33. Students are taught with simplified vocab






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






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






36. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking






37. Two years maximum in mother tongue






38. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages






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






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






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






42. Receptive skill: reading - Productive skill: writing






43. Type of second language information received when learning language






44. Outcome of formal instruction






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






46. 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






47. Includes pressure to replace or demote first language






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






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






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