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CSET Spanish Subtest
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Promoted foreign language acquisition due to Cold War; fear that US wouldn't be able to compete in international world
Language borrowing
strategic competence
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
2. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages
Connectionism
Language Acquisition Device
Diglossia
Language interference
3. Type of second language information received when learning language
Language inputs
Critical Literacy Approach
Common underlying proficiency
social competence
4. 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
Translanguaging
Communicative sensitivity
Contrastive Analysis
Language Competence
5. Language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics
Sheltered English instruction
Metalinguistic awareness
Audiolingualism
Convergent thinking
6. Learn second language with little pressure to replace/remove first
Separatist Education
Additive bilingualism
Communicative sensitivity
Semilingual
7. Allows around 40% of classroom teaching in the mother tongue until the 6th grade
Late exit bilingual education
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Construction of Meaning Approach
Contrastive Analysis
8. Someone who is equally competent in two languages
strategic competence
Balanced bilingual
Early exit bilingual education
Nationality Act of 1906
9. 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
Metalinguistic awareness
Total immersion
Language Acquisition Device
Literacy
10. Can be measured in six different ways. need to measure in ways beyond linguistic competence
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Language Competence
Language achievement
Language performance
11. Need to emphasize speaking and writing (ability to communicate with others) in addition to input (listening and reading) in the classroom
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Meaningful output
Early exit bilingual education
Threshold theory
12. 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
Early exit bilingual education
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Immersion v Submersion
Language Competence
13. 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
Codeswitching
Simultaneous language acquisition
Lau v Nichols 1970
Language borrowing
14. Requires that language sub skills are repeated until they move from being controlled to automatic; difficult to delete.
Metalinguistic awareness
Communicative sensitivity
Information processing approach
Divergent thinking
15. Most supported by VII funds. students are temporarily allowed to use native tongue until they are competent enough to move into mainstream education
Transitional Bilingual Education
Construction of Meaning Approach
sociocultural competence
Language borrowing
16. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning
strategic competence
Codemixing
Meaningful input
Literacy
17. Awareness of sociocultural context in which language concerned is used by native speakers
Immersion v Submersion
sociocultural competence
Language performance
Literacy
18. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling
Partial immersion
Elective bilingualism
Convergent thinking
Submersion with pull - out classes
19. The ability to think about the nature and functions of language
Language Acquisition Device
Metalinguistic awareness
Audiolingualism
Codeswitching
20. Both languages operate through the same central processing system
Audiolingualism
Personal factors in language acquisition
Williams v State of California 2000
Common underlying proficiency
21. Bilingual doesn't equal two monolinguals in one person - can't measure against native speaker. Different languages in different contexts
Meaningful output
Whole Language Approach
Balanced bilingual
Holistic view of bilingualism
22. 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
Acculturation
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Whole Language Approach
Additive bilingualism
23. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Contrastive Analysis
sociolinguistic competence
Functional Literacy Approach
24. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation
Personal factors in language acquisition
Interdependence
Language loss
Critical Literacy Approach
25. People have two separate language systems for each language then share a separate non - verbal system that is shared by both
Connectionism
Partial immersion
sociocultural competence
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
26. Outward evidence of language competence
Literacy
Language performance
Acculturation
sociocultural competence
27. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding
Audiolingualism
Translanguaging
social competence
Information processing approach
28. Two years maximum in mother tongue
Literacy
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Early exit bilingual education
Information processing approach
29. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language
Diglossia
Additive bilingualism
Language competence
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
30. Ability to use particular social strategies to achieve communicative goals - i.e. know when to interrupt - how to initiate conversation
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Circumstantial bilingualism
social competence
Semilingual
31. 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
Additive bilingualism
discourse competence
Language borrowing
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
32. Majority member learning second language without losing first languages
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Codeswitching
Codemixing
Elective bilingualism
33. Idea that readers bring their own meaning to text
Submersion
Construction of Meaning Approach
Language Competence
social competence
34. Acquires both languages at the same time and prior to the age of 3
Language achievement
Communicative sensitivity
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Simultaneous language acquisition
35. Language is a matter of habit forming; careful control of input by teacher very important
Structured input
Metalinguistic awareness
Balanced bilingual
Common underlying proficiency
36. Two languages in a community
Elective bilingualism
Language interference
Threshold theory
Diglossia
37. Decline in speaker's first language proficiency while a second language is being learned
Functional Literacy Approach
Holistic view of bilingualism
Language interference
Language loss
38. Learning language to survive
Diglossia
Circumstantial bilingualism
Threshold theory
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
39. 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
Submersion with pull - out classes
discourse competence
Total immersion
40. Students are taught with simplified vocab
Language Competence
Sheltered English instruction
Interdependence
Acculturation
41. When equal numbers of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization
Intake
Dual Language education
Holistic view of bilingualism
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
42. Context reduced situations: pronunciation - grammar - vocab
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
sociocultural competence
Literacy
43. 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
Literacy
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Meaningful output
44. 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
Accommodation
Threshold theory
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
strategic competence
45. IQ tests - force students to converge onto one answer
Accommodation
Elective bilingualism
Language skills
Convergent thinking
46. 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'
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Accommodation
Communicative sensitivity
47. Literacy can be used to maintain hegemony/control masses and it can also be a liberator
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Meaningful output
Critical Literacy Approach
Mendez v Westminster 1947
48. Idea that languages constitute two 'balloons' in the brain and there's only so much room for both of them. Incorrect - languages share
Literacy
Separate underlying proficiency
Language performance
Balanced bilingual
49. A language minority separates from the language majority in order to protect their language
Separatist Education
Threshold theory
Literacy
Critical Literacy Approach
50. Ability to use verbal and non - verbal communication strategies to compensate for gaps in language user's knowledge
Language performance
strategic competence
Early exit bilingual education
Separate underlying proficiency