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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. Outward evidence of language competence
lexical gaps
Threshold theory
Functional Literacy Approach
Language performance
2. Federal case that determined segregation of Mexican and Mexican - American students in Orange County was unconstitutional
Accommodation
lexical gaps
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Mendez v Westminster 1947
3. What is actually assimilated. more important than input
Total immersion
Intake
Proposition 227 of 1998
Semilingual
4. Humans are cognitively wired for language and have universal - abstract nature of rules that underlie competence
discourse competence
Language Acquisition Device
lexical gaps
Biliteracy
5. Receptive skill: listening - Productive skill: speaking
Total immersion
Audiolingualism
Oracy
Intake
6. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation
Interdependence
Personal factors in language acquisition
Language loss
Sheltered English instruction
7. Someone who is equally competent in two languages
Balanced bilingual
discourse competence
Oracy
Language borrowing
8. 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
Language loss
Lau v Nichols 1970
Literacy
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
9. Simply reading and writing so one can operate in society (usu. low level) - reading and writing seen as separate skills
sociocultural competence
Whole Language Approach
Nationality Act of 1906
Functional Literacy Approach
10. 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
Total immersion
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Language skills
Audiolingualism
11. 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
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Proposition 227 of 1998
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Partial immersion
12. Brain is a complex network of links between information - links are strengthened when repetitively activated
Submersion with pull - out classes
Connectionism
social competence
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
13. Occurs when there are contextual supports and props to support language (functional meaning)
discourse competence
Partial immersion
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Elective bilingualism
14. Students are taught with simplified vocab
Sheltered English instruction
Educate America Act of 1994
non - linguistic outcomes
Language interference
15. Bilingual doesn't equal two monolinguals in one person - can't measure against native speaker. Different languages in different contexts
sociolinguistic competence
Early exit bilingual education
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Holistic view of bilingualism
16. Literacy can be used to maintain hegemony/control masses and it can also be a liberator
Immersion v Submersion
Language loss
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
Critical Literacy Approach
17. IQ tests - force students to converge onto one answer
Convergent thinking
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Accommodation
Common underlying proficiency
18. 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
Accommodation
Transitional bilingual education
Meaningful input
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language
19. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages
Codeswitching
Language interference
non - linguistic outcomes
Interdependence
20. Ability to use verbal and non - verbal communication strategies to compensate for gaps in language user's knowledge
Language inputs
Meaningful input
strategic competence
Language performance
21. Outcome of formal instruction
Immersion v Submersion
Functional Literacy Approach
Language achievement
Language loss
22. 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
Communicative sensitivity
Audiolingualism
Language skills
sociolinguistic competence
23. Receptive skill: reading - Productive skill: writing
Submersion with pull - out classes
Literacy
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Divergent thinking
24. 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
Educate America Act of 1994
lexical gaps
Submersion with pull - out classes
25. Minority language student taught entirely in majority language - first language is replaced. Students cannot develop cognitively
Construction of Meaning Approach
Dual Language education
Whole Language Approach
Submersion
26. 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
Personal factors in language acquisition
Acculturation
Language competence
Transitional bilingual education
27. Acquires both languages at the same time and prior to the age of 3
Critical Literacy Approach
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Simultaneous language acquisition
Proposition 227 of 1998
28. Skills in literacy of primary language can be transferred to second language
Biliteracy
Early exit bilingual education
Immersion
Diglossia
29. Includes pressure to replace or demote first language
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Codemixing
Subtractive language acquisition
language brokers
30. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning
Construction of Meaning Approach
Circumstantial bilingualism
Literacy
Accommodation
31. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts
sociolinguistic competence
Transitional Bilingual Education
Convergent thinking
Connectionism
32. Ability for person to come up with multiple answers to a problem (more creative thinkers)
Transitional bilingual education
Divergent thinking
Immersion
Semilingual
33. Changing languages at word level
Late exit bilingual education
Accommodation
Language borrowing
Codemixing
34. Major education reform. set high standards for immigrant communities and continued federal support for bilingual programs. acknowledged benefits of bilingual education
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Language loss
Biliteracy
Educate America Act of 1994
35. 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
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Codemixing
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
36. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding
Connectionism
Accommodation
Translanguaging
Additive bilingualism
37. Idea that readers bring their own meaning to text
Construction of Meaning Approach
Connectionism
Partial immersion
Threshold theory
38. Language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics
Codeswitching
Audiolingualism
Proposition 227 of 1998
Educate America Act of 1994
39. 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
Transitional bilingual education
Communicative sensitivity
Lau v Nichols 1970
Intake
40. Requires that language sub skills are repeated until they move from being controlled to automatic; difficult to delete.
Audiolingualism
Information processing approach
Segregationalist
Simultaneous language acquisition
41. Foreign words that have become permanent part of recipient language. part of continuum of codeswitching
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
strategic competence
Language borrowing
Literacy
42. Effect on self - esteem and ego - new cultural reference
Meyer v Nebraska 1923
Circumstantial bilingualism
non - linguistic outcomes
Convergent thinking
43. Awareness of sociocultural context in which language concerned is used by native speakers
Language inputs
Subtractive language acquisition
Meaningful output
sociocultural competence
44. The ability to think about the nature and functions of language
Personal factors in language acquisition
language brokers
Metalinguistic awareness
discourse competence
45. Ability to develop appropriate cultural meaning from texts
Balanced bilingual
Submersion
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Personal factors in language acquisition
46. When equal numbers of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization
Threshold theory
Dual Language education
Separatist Education
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
47. Aim is to be bilingual and bicultural without loss of achievement. form depends on when child begins.
lexical gaps
Functional Literacy Approach
Late exit bilingual education
Immersion
48. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language
Elective bilingualism
Critical Literacy Approach
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Literacy
49. 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
Whole Language Approach
Meaningful output
Audiolingualism
Communicative sensitivity
50. 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'
Transitional bilingual education
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
Sheltered English instruction
Accommodation