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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. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding
Construction of Meaning Approach
sociolinguistic competence
Translanguaging
Contrastive Analysis
2. Both languages operate through the same central processing system
Common underlying proficiency
Partial immersion
Contrastive Analysis
Threshold theory
3. IQ tests - force students to converge onto one answer
Educate America Act of 1994
Interdependence
sociolinguistic competence
Convergent thinking
4. Occurs when there are contextual supports and props to support language (functional meaning)
Segregationalist
Additive bilingualism
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Meaningful input
5. Major education reform. set high standards for immigrant communities and continued federal support for bilingual programs. acknowledged benefits of bilingual education
Educate America Act of 1994
social competence
Literacy
Audiolingualism
6. Simply reading and writing so one can operate in society (usu. low level) - reading and writing seen as separate skills
Functional Literacy Approach
Early exit bilingual education
Threshold theory
Language interference
7. Two languages in a community
Intake
Diglossia
Language loss
Early exit bilingual education
8. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts
sociolinguistic competence
Subtractive language acquisition
Language achievement
Separatist Education
9. Allows around 40% of classroom teaching in the mother tongue until the 6th grade
Structured input
Codemixing
Late exit bilingual education
Nationality Act of 1906
10. Promoted foreign language acquisition due to Cold War; fear that US wouldn't be able to compete in international world
Proposition 227 of 1998
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Subtractive language acquisition
Language achievement
11. Outward evidence of language competence
Additive bilingualism
Total immersion
Language performance
lexical gaps
12. Language is a matter of habit forming; careful control of input by teacher very important
Structured input
Literacy
Transitional bilingual education
Nationality Act of 1906
13. Minority language speakers are denied access to programs/schools
Segregationalist
Language performance
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Holistic view of bilingualism
14. Idea that readers bring their own meaning to text
Additive bilingualism
Contrastive Analysis
Construction of Meaning Approach
Accommodation
15. 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
Meaningful output
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Immersion
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
16. Minority students in submersion programs but are pulled out to have ESL lessons. Students fall behind on classroom content and seen as remedial
Whole Language Approach
Total immersion
Submersion with pull - out classes
Convergent thinking
17. Language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Convergent thinking
Audiolingualism
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
18. 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
Language Competence
social competence
lexical gaps
Threshold theory
19. Ability to develop appropriate cultural meaning from texts
sociolinguistic competence
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Interdependence
Biliteracy
20. Humans are cognitively wired for language and have universal - abstract nature of rules that underlie competence
Codeswitching
Language Acquisition Device
sociolinguistic competence
Transitional bilingual education
21. Someone who does not have total competency in either language
Functional Literacy Approach
Codemixing
Semilingual
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
22. Ability to use verbal and non - verbal communication strategies to compensate for gaps in language user's knowledge
Immersion
Language achievement
strategic competence
Interdependence
23. Ralph Yarborough introduced Bilingual Education Act as an amendment. Enacted in 1968. Indicated that bilingual programs were part of the federal education system.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Literacy
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Submersion with pull - out classes
24. Ability for person to come up with multiple answers to a problem (more creative thinkers)
Divergent thinking
Language Acquisition Device
Meaningful input
Contrastive Analysis
25. A language minority separates from the language majority in order to protect their language
Partial immersion
Threshold theory
Structured input
Separatist Education
26. The ability to think about the nature and functions of language
Metalinguistic awareness
Language loss
Transitional Bilingual Education
Interdependence
27. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking
Oracy
Structured input
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
social competence
28. Ability to use appropriate strategies in constructing texts and spoken discourse
Diglossia
discourse competence
Elective bilingualism
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
29. Awareness of sociocultural context in which language concerned is used by native speakers
sociocultural competence
language brokers
strategic competence
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
30. Bilingual doesn't equal two monolinguals in one person - can't measure against native speaker. Different languages in different contexts
Holistic view of bilingualism
sociocultural competence
Codeswitching
Immersion v Submersion
31. 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
Partial immersion
Proposition 227 of 1998
Contrastive Analysis
Critical Literacy Approach
32. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation
Language skills
Accommodation
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Personal factors in language acquisition
33. Changing languages at word level
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Accommodation
Codemixing
Proposition 227 of 1998
34. 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
Circumstantial bilingualism
Functional Literacy Approach
Total immersion
Audiolingualism
35. Immersion: optional - thrives on conviction - students generally start with same lack of experience in second language - additive bilingualism.
Immersion v Submersion
Language competence
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Functional Literacy Approach
36. Foreign words that have become permanent part of recipient language. part of continuum of codeswitching
Immersion
Transitional bilingual education
Language borrowing
Language achievement
37. What is actually assimilated. more important than input
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Elective bilingualism
Intake
38. Includes pressure to replace or demote first language
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Literacy
Subtractive language acquisition
Audiolingualism
39. Majority member learning second language without losing first languages
Language inputs
Elective bilingualism
Contrastive Analysis
Balanced bilingual
40. Skills in literacy of primary language can be transferred to second language
Submersion with pull - out classes
Biliteracy
Williams v State of California 2000
social competence
41. 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
Structured input
Diglossia
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
social competence
42. 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
Partial immersion
Codeswitching
Meaningful input
Proposition 227 of 1998
43. Federal case that determined segregation of Mexican and Mexican - American students in Orange County was unconstitutional
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Language performance
Structured input
Nationality Act of 1906
44. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning
Language borrowing
Literacy
Educate America Act of 1994
Circumstantial bilingualism
45. Need to emphasize speaking and writing (ability to communicate with others) in addition to input (listening and reading) in the classroom
Early exit bilingual education
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Language loss
Meaningful output
46. Second language acquisition depends on the extent to which first language is developed
Interdependence
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Structured input
Separatist Education
47. 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
Intake
Functional Literacy Approach
Information processing approach
48. 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
Acculturation
strategic competence
Early exit bilingual education
Contrastive Analysis
49. Required that immigrants learn English
Personal factors in language acquisition
Convergent thinking
Nationality Act of 1906
discourse competence
50. Learning language to survive
Literacy
Williams v State of California 2000
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Circumstantial bilingualism