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CSET Spanish Subtest
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Acquires both languages at the same time and prior to the age of 3
Simultaneous language acquisition
Acculturation
Metalinguistic awareness
Proposition 227 of 1998
2. Moving back and forth between registers - dialects - or languages. change languages at phrase level
Codemixing
Whole Language Approach
Codeswitching
Oracy
3. Immersion: optional - thrives on conviction - students generally start with same lack of experience in second language - additive bilingualism.
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Immersion v Submersion
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Transitional Bilingual Education
4. Foreign words that have become permanent part of recipient language. part of continuum of codeswitching
Language borrowing
Submersion
Language competence
Biliteracy
5. Type of second language information received when learning language
Information processing approach
Language inputs
Late exit bilingual education
Oracy
6. Someone who is equally competent in two languages
Balanced bilingual
Proposition 227 of 1998
Interdependence
Lau v Nichols 1970
7. Students are taught with simplified vocab
Personal factors in language acquisition
Sheltered English instruction
Language Competence
Immersion
8. 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
Meaningful output
Codeswitching
Holistic view of bilingualism
9. Simply reading and writing so one can operate in society (usu. low level) - reading and writing seen as separate skills
Information processing approach
Language inputs
Functional Literacy Approach
Construction of Meaning Approach
10. Outcome of formal instruction
Language interference
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Oracy
Language achievement
11. Ability to use particular social strategies to achieve communicative goals - i.e. know when to interrupt - how to initiate conversation
Meaningful output
language brokers
Oracy
social competence
12. Federal case that determined segregation of Mexican and Mexican - American students in Orange County was unconstitutional
Total immersion
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Submersion
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
13. Observable - clearly defined components of language
Dual Language education
Language skills
Transitional Bilingual Education
Language loss
14. 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
Whole Language Approach
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Meaningful input
15. Aim is to be bilingual and bicultural without loss of achievement. form depends on when child begins.
Convergent thinking
Elective bilingualism
Immersion
Structured input
16. Ability for person to come up with multiple answers to a problem (more creative thinkers)
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Divergent thinking
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Acculturation
17. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Educate America Act of 1994
Separatist Education
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
18. Requires that language sub skills are repeated until they move from being controlled to automatic; difficult to delete.
Partial immersion
Dual Language education
Information processing approach
Whole Language Approach
19. 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
Total immersion
Separatist Education
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Metalinguistic awareness
20. The ability to think about the nature and functions of language
Meaningful input
Additive bilingualism
Language competence
Metalinguistic awareness
21. 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
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Contrastive Analysis
Partial immersion
Interdependence
22. Both languages operate through the same central processing system
Connectionism
Language Competence
Common underlying proficiency
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
23. 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
non - linguistic outcomes
Threshold theory
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Late exit bilingual education
24. Includes pressure to replace or demote first language
Accommodation
Acculturation
Biliteracy
Subtractive language acquisition
25. IQ tests - force students to converge onto one answer
Convergent thinking
Holistic view of bilingualism
Common underlying proficiency
Critical Literacy Approach
26. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding
Translanguaging
Dual Language education
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
social competence
27. Humans are cognitively wired for language and have universal - abstract nature of rules that underlie competence
Language Acquisition Device
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Sheltered English instruction
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
28. Receptive skill: reading - Productive skill: writing
Information processing approach
Literacy
Language competence
Semilingual
29. People have two separate language systems for each language then share a separate non - verbal system that is shared by both
Early exit bilingual education
Intake
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
Subtractive language acquisition
30. Most supported by VII funds. students are temporarily allowed to use native tongue until they are competent enough to move into mainstream education
strategic competence
Transitional Bilingual Education
Language Acquisition Device
Language performance
31. Inner - mental representation of language
Functional Literacy Approach
Language competence
Metalinguistic awareness
Educate America Act of 1994
32. Ralph Yarborough introduced Bilingual Education Act as an amendment. Enacted in 1968. Indicated that bilingual programs were part of the federal education system.
Partial immersion
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Audiolingualism
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
33. Brain is a complex network of links between information - links are strengthened when repetitively activated
Submersion with pull - out classes
Connectionism
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Acculturation
34. Outward evidence of language competence
Diglossia
Separatist Education
Language performance
sociolinguistic competence
35. Need to emphasize speaking and writing (ability to communicate with others) in addition to input (listening and reading) in the classroom
Meaningful output
Late exit bilingual education
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Information processing approach
36. Allows around 40% of classroom teaching in the mother tongue until the 6th grade
Divergent thinking
Language achievement
Late exit bilingual education
Proposition 227 of 1998
37. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages
Nationality Act of 1906
Total immersion
Language Acquisition Device
Language interference
38. 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
Proposition 227 of 1998
Partial immersion
Communicative sensitivity
Sheltered English instruction
39. Authorized by Congress in 1978 - allowing native language to be used only as much as necessary to develop English skills
Transitional bilingual education
Contrastive Analysis
Language borrowing
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
40. Ability to use verbal and non - verbal communication strategies to compensate for gaps in language user's knowledge
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Lau v Nichols 1970
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
strategic competence
41. Occurs when there are contextual supports and props to support language (functional meaning)
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
Circumstantial bilingualism
Segregationalist
42. 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
Language skills
Communicative sensitivity
Elective bilingualism
Common underlying proficiency
43. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling
Partial immersion
Semilingual
Functional Literacy Approach
Meaningful input
44. Second language acquisition depends on the extent to which first language is developed
Submersion
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Nationality Act of 1906
Interdependence
45. A language minority separates from the language majority in order to protect their language
Sheltered English instruction
Immersion v Submersion
Meaningful output
Separatist Education
46. 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
Nationality Act of 1906
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Divergent thinking
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
47. Changing languages at word level
Accommodation
Language skills
Codemixing
language brokers
48. Majority member learning second language without losing first languages
Holistic view of bilingualism
Elective bilingualism
Contrastive Analysis
Educate America Act of 1994
49. Goal: assimilation. contain bilingual kids but are barely bilingual in nature
Semilingual
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Separate underlying proficiency
Sheltered English instruction
50. 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
Metalinguistic awareness
Audiolingualism
Lau v Nichols 1970
Total immersion