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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation






2. Ability to use verbal and non - verbal communication strategies to compensate for gaps in language user's knowledge






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






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






5. 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






6. Federal case that determined segregation of Mexican and Mexican - American students in Orange County was unconstitutional






7. Outward evidence of language competence






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






9. 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






10. Two languages in a community






11. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking






12. Idea that readers bring their own meaning to text






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






14. Required that immigrants learn English






15. Outcome of formal instruction






16. Occurs when there are contextual supports and props to support language (functional meaning)






17. Receptive skill: reading - Productive skill: writing






18. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language






19. 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






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






21. 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






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






23. Changing languages at word level






24. A language minority separates from the language majority in order to protect their language






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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






29. Context reduced situations: pronunciation - grammar - vocab






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






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






32. Type of second language information received when learning language






33. Authorized by Congress in 1978 - allowing native language to be used only as much as necessary to develop English skills






34. Refers to those people whose experiences are not well represented by their language and therefore have difficulties expressing their thoughts and feelings verbally






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






36. 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'






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






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






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






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






41. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts






42. What is actually assimilated. more important than input






43. Minority language speakers are denied access to programs/schools






44. Brain is a complex network of links between information - links are strengthened when repetitively activated






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






46. Someone who is equally competent in two languages






47. 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






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






49. Students are taught with simplified vocab






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