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CSET Spanish Subtest
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Idea that the further the child moves to balanced bilingualism - the more likely cognitive advantages exist. 1st threshold: enough proficiency to avoid negative effects. 2nd threshold: enough for advantages to exist
Threshold theory
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
Audiolingualism
2. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking
Codeswitching
Semilingual
Separatist Education
Oracy
3. Ability to use appropriate strategies in constructing texts and spoken discourse
discourse competence
Language interference
Translanguaging
Immersion
4. Outcome of formal instruction
Biliteracy
Language skills
Language achievement
Transitional Bilingual Education
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
Immersion
Convergent thinking
language brokers
Meaningful input
6. 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
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Literacy
Proposition 227 of 1998
Dual Language education
7. Ability to use verbal and non - verbal communication strategies to compensate for gaps in language user's knowledge
Early exit bilingual education
strategic competence
Separatist Education
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
8. 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
Lau v Nichols 1970
Additive bilingualism
lexical gaps
Transitional Bilingual Education
9. Humans are cognitively wired for language and have universal - abstract nature of rules that underlie competence
Simultaneous language acquisition
Language Acquisition Device
Interdependence
Biliteracy
10. Most supported by VII funds. students are temporarily allowed to use native tongue until they are competent enough to move into mainstream education
Information processing approach
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Transitional Bilingual Education
11. Receptive skill: reading - Productive skill: writing
Language achievement
Literacy
Whole Language Approach
Communicative sensitivity
12. Major education reform. set high standards for immigrant communities and continued federal support for bilingual programs. acknowledged benefits of bilingual education
Accommodation
Oracy
Educate America Act of 1994
Language Acquisition Device
13. 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
Language performance
Contrastive Analysis
Language inputs
Functional Literacy Approach
14. Learn second language with little pressure to replace/remove first
Interdependence
Personal factors in language acquisition
Acculturation
Additive bilingualism
15. Ability for person to come up with multiple answers to a problem (more creative thinkers)
Divergent thinking
Language Acquisition Device
Elective bilingualism
Partial immersion
16. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning
discourse competence
Literacy
Educate America Act of 1994
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
17. Simply reading and writing so one can operate in society (usu. low level) - reading and writing seen as separate skills
Intake
Construction of Meaning Approach
Meaningful input
Functional Literacy Approach
18. What is actually assimilated. more important than input
Biliteracy
Accommodation
Intake
Connectionism
19. Type of second language information received when learning language
Partial immersion
Language inputs
Holistic view of bilingualism
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
20. Aim is to be bilingual and bicultural without loss of achievement. form depends on when child begins.
Additive bilingualism
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
strategic competence
Immersion
21. Language is a matter of habit forming; careful control of input by teacher very important
Accommodation
Structured input
Segregationalist
Proposition 227 of 1998
22. Literacy can be used to maintain hegemony/control masses and it can also be a liberator
Critical Literacy Approach
Semilingual
Nationality Act of 1906
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
23. People who translate and sometimes transform ideas into socially acceptable terms
social competence
Metalinguistic awareness
language brokers
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
24. When equal numbers of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Oracy
Dual Language education
Balanced bilingual
25. Two languages in a community
Separate underlying proficiency
Diglossia
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
26. Learning language to survive
Partial immersion
Circumstantial bilingualism
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Convergent thinking
27. 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
sociolinguistic competence
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Total immersion
Language Competence
28. 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
Partial immersion
Language performance
Acculturation
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
29. Foreign words that have become permanent part of recipient language. part of continuum of codeswitching
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Language borrowing
Critical Literacy Approach
Immersion v Submersion
30. A language minority separates from the language majority in order to protect their language
Separatist Education
non - linguistic outcomes
Lau v Nichols 1970
Threshold theory
31. Occurs when there are contextual supports and props to support language (functional meaning)
Language borrowing
Contrastive Analysis
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Immersion
32. Someone who does not have total competency in either language
Language skills
Structured input
Semilingual
sociocultural competence
33. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts
sociolinguistic competence
Acculturation
Literacy
Submersion
34. 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
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Dual Language education
Literacy
non - linguistic outcomes
35. Moving back and forth between registers - dialects - or languages. change languages at phrase level
Functional Literacy Approach
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Codeswitching
36. Ralph Yarborough introduced Bilingual Education Act as an amendment. Enacted in 1968. Indicated that bilingual programs were part of the federal education system.
Williams v State of California 2000
Functional Literacy Approach
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
37. Refers to those people whose experiences are not well represented by their language and therefore have difficulties expressing their thoughts and feelings verbally
Holistic view of bilingualism
Connectionism
lexical gaps
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
38. Effect on self - esteem and ego - new cultural reference
discourse competence
non - linguistic outcomes
Literacy
Lau v Nichols 1970
39. Awareness of sociocultural context in which language concerned is used by native speakers
sociocultural competence
Language interference
sociolinguistic competence
Simultaneous language acquisition
40. Authorized by Congress in 1978 - allowing native language to be used only as much as necessary to develop English skills
Communicative sensitivity
Transitional bilingual education
Critical Literacy Approach
Mendez v Westminster 1947
41. 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
Segregationalist
Language performance
42. 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
Language performance
Whole Language Approach
Semilingual
Literacy
43. 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
lexical gaps
Communicative sensitivity
Williams v State of California 2000
Connectionism
44. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation
Personal factors in language acquisition
Language inputs
Immersion
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
45. Bilingual doesn't equal two monolinguals in one person - can't measure against native speaker. Different languages in different contexts
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Intake
Holistic view of bilingualism
46. Can be measured in six different ways. need to measure in ways beyond linguistic competence
Language Competence
Immersion v Submersion
Separatist Education
social competence
47. Minority language speakers are denied access to programs/schools
Biliteracy
Segregationalist
Language loss
Language Acquisition Device
48. Language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics
Audiolingualism
Threshold theory
Elective bilingualism
Metalinguistic awareness
49. 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'
Language Competence
Accommodation
Submersion with pull - out classes
Semilingual
50. Promoted foreign language acquisition due to Cold War; fear that US wouldn't be able to compete in international world
Literacy
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Audiolingualism
Literacy