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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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1. 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






2. Majority member learning second language without losing first languages






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






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






5. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling






6. Promoted foreign language acquisition due to Cold War; fear that US wouldn't be able to compete in international world






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






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






9. Type of second language information received when learning language






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






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






12. Ability to develop appropriate cultural meaning from texts






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






14. Students are taught with simplified vocab






15. What is actually assimilated. more important than input






16. Context reduced situations: pronunciation - grammar - vocab






17. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning






18. Requires that language sub skills are repeated until they move from being controlled to automatic; difficult to delete.






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






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






21. Someone who is equally competent in two languages






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Ability to use appropriate strategies in constructing texts and spoken discourse






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. Required that immigrants learn English






39. Inner - mental representation of language






40. People have two separate language systems for each language then share a separate non - verbal system that is shared by both






41. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages






42. 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






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






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






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






46. Outward evidence of language competence






47. Changing languages at word level






48. Outcome of formal instruction






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






50. Learning language to survive