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CSET Spanish Subtest
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Personal factors in language acquisition
Total immersion
Transitional bilingual education
Educate America Act of 1994
2. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation
Semilingual
Personal factors in language acquisition
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Williams v State of California 2000
3. Observable - clearly defined components of language
Language skills
Sheltered English instruction
Williams v State of California 2000
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
4. Brain is a complex network of links between information - links are strengthened when repetitively activated
Connectionism
sociolinguistic competence
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Information processing approach
5. Aim is to be bilingual and bicultural without loss of achievement. form depends on when child begins.
Total immersion
Immersion
Intake
Holistic view of bilingualism
6. A language minority separates from the language majority in order to protect their language
Separatist Education
Personal factors in language acquisition
Holistic view of bilingualism
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
7. Ralph Yarborough introduced Bilingual Education Act as an amendment. Enacted in 1968. Indicated that bilingual programs were part of the federal education system.
Transitional Bilingual Education
Language Competence
language brokers
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
8. Humans are cognitively wired for language and have universal - abstract nature of rules that underlie competence
Circumstantial bilingualism
Translanguaging
Language Acquisition Device
Construction of Meaning Approach
9. Literacy can be used to maintain hegemony/control masses and it can also be a liberator
Whole Language Approach
Personal factors in language acquisition
Critical Literacy Approach
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
10. Receptive skill: reading - Productive skill: writing
Nationality Act of 1906
Separatist Education
Acculturation
Literacy
11. Requires that language sub skills are repeated until they move from being controlled to automatic; difficult to delete.
Information processing approach
Submersion with pull - out classes
Audiolingualism
Transitional bilingual education
12. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Translanguaging
Language competence
social competence
13. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking
Language skills
Oracy
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
lexical gaps
14. Bilingual doesn't equal two monolinguals in one person - can't measure against native speaker. Different languages in different contexts
Elective bilingualism
Proposition 227 of 1998
Language competence
Holistic view of bilingualism
15. Someone who does not have total competency in either language
Sheltered English instruction
Submersion
sociocultural competence
Semilingual
16. Promoted foreign language acquisition due to Cold War; fear that US wouldn't be able to compete in international world
Total immersion
Critical Literacy Approach
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Transitional bilingual education
17. Type of second language information received when learning language
Language inputs
Elective bilingualism
Construction of Meaning Approach
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
18. 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
Circumstantial bilingualism
Proposition 227 of 1998
Williams v State of California 2000
Language competence
19. 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
lexical gaps
Language borrowing
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Transitional bilingual education
20. IQ tests - force students to converge onto one answer
Convergent thinking
Language Acquisition Device
sociolinguistic competence
lexical gaps
21. 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
Language skills
strategic competence
Circumstantial bilingualism
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
22. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
Codeswitching
sociolinguistic competence
Literacy
23. People who translate and sometimes transform ideas into socially acceptable terms
Functional Literacy Approach
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Partial immersion
language brokers
24. Effect on self - esteem and ego - new cultural reference
Separate underlying proficiency
sociolinguistic competence
non - linguistic outcomes
Biliteracy
25. Idea that languages constitute two 'balloons' in the brain and there's only so much room for both of them. Incorrect - languages share
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Acculturation
Separate underlying proficiency
discourse competence
26. 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
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
discourse competence
Whole Language Approach
Transitional bilingual education
27. Allows around 40% of classroom teaching in the mother tongue until the 6th grade
sociocultural competence
Late exit bilingual education
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
language brokers
28. Can be measured in six different ways. need to measure in ways beyond linguistic competence
Language achievement
Language Competence
Late exit bilingual education
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
29. Ability to use verbal and non - verbal communication strategies to compensate for gaps in language user's knowledge
strategic competence
Convergent thinking
Language loss
Nationality Act of 1906
30. Major education reform. set high standards for immigrant communities and continued federal support for bilingual programs. acknowledged benefits of bilingual education
Language borrowing
Language achievement
Construction of Meaning Approach
Educate America Act of 1994
31. What is actually assimilated. more important than input
Communicative sensitivity
Intake
Language achievement
Meaningful output
32. The ability to think about the nature and functions of language
Codeswitching
Construction of Meaning Approach
Metalinguistic awareness
Meaningful input
33. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts
Segregationalist
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
sociolinguistic competence
Elective bilingualism
34. Authorized by Congress in 1978 - allowing native language to be used only as much as necessary to develop English skills
Codeswitching
Transitional bilingual education
Early exit bilingual education
Language inputs
35. Two languages in a community
strategic competence
Diglossia
Transitional bilingual education
Meaningful output
36. Two years maximum in mother tongue
Immersion
Language Acquisition Device
Diglossia
Early exit bilingual education
37. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
sociocultural competence
Submersion
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
38. Decline in speaker's first language proficiency while a second language is being learned
Subtractive language acquisition
Language loss
Williams v State of California 2000
Immersion v Submersion
39. Includes pressure to replace or demote first language
Subtractive language acquisition
Language Competence
Literacy
Construction of Meaning Approach
40. 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
sociocultural competence
sociolinguistic competence
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Critical Literacy Approach
41. 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
Additive bilingualism
Meaningful input
Immersion v Submersion
sociolinguistic competence
42. Learn second language with little pressure to replace/remove first
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Literacy
Sheltered English instruction
Additive bilingualism
43. Students are taught with simplified vocab
Subtractive language acquisition
Contrastive Analysis
Sheltered English instruction
Language Acquisition Device
44. Skills in literacy of primary language can be transferred to second language
Biliteracy
Translanguaging
Structured input
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
45. When equal numbers of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization
Simultaneous language acquisition
Audiolingualism
Dual Language education
Language competence
46. Foreign words that have become permanent part of recipient language. part of continuum of codeswitching
Language performance
Whole Language Approach
Early exit bilingual education
Language borrowing
47. Minority students in submersion programs but are pulled out to have ESL lessons. Students fall behind on classroom content and seen as remedial
Submersion with pull - out classes
sociocultural competence
Language performance
Partial immersion
48. Federal case that determined segregation of Mexican and Mexican - American students in Orange County was unconstitutional
Mendez v Westminster 1947
Language performance
Whole Language Approach
Biliteracy
49. 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 brokers
Threshold theory
Transitional Bilingual Education
Nationality Act of 1906
50. 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
Whole Language Approach
Language competence
Williams v State of California 2000
Mendez v Westminster 1947