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CSET Spanish Subtest
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1. Both languages operate through the same central processing system
Dual Language education
Language interference
Common underlying proficiency
Circumstantial bilingualism
2. Authorized by Congress in 1978 - allowing native language to be used only as much as necessary to develop English skills
Personal factors in language acquisition
language brokers
Convergent thinking
Transitional bilingual education
3. People who translate and sometimes transform ideas into socially acceptable terms
language brokers
Circumstantial bilingualism
Language Acquisition Device
Lau v Nichols 1970
4. A language minority separates from the language majority in order to protect their language
Separatist Education
Holistic view of bilingualism
Language loss
Proposition 227 of 1998
5. Someone who does not have total competency in either language
Educate America Act of 1994
Holistic view of bilingualism
Lau v Nichols 1970
Semilingual
6. Decline in speaker's first language proficiency while a second language is being learned
Language loss
Separatist Education
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Whole Language Approach
7. Learning language to survive
Circumstantial bilingualism
Late exit bilingual education
Partial immersion
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
8. 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
Information processing approach
Holistic view of bilingualism
Williams v State of California 2000
Elective bilingualism
9. 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
Additive bilingualism
Translanguaging
Language Acquisition Device
Threshold theory
10. 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 Competence
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Dual Language education
Diglossia
11. Refers to those people whose experiences are not well represented by their language and therefore have difficulties expressing their thoughts and feelings verbally
Personal factors in language acquisition
lexical gaps
Additive bilingualism
Total immersion
12. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation
sociolinguistic competence
Balanced bilingual
Personal factors in language acquisition
Separate underlying proficiency
13. 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
National Defense and Education Act of 1958
Contrastive Analysis
Partial immersion
Simultaneous language acquisition
14. 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
Lau v Nichols 1970
Nationality Act of 1906
Whole Language Approach
15. Second language acquisition depends on the extent to which first language is developed
Interdependence
Literacy
Construction of Meaning Approach
Accommodation
16. Pejorative term for borrowing between languages
Dual Language education
Circumstantial bilingualism
Language interference
Diglossia
17. Two years maximum in mother tongue
Early exit bilingual education
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Submersion with pull - out classes
Codeswitching
18. Allows around 40% of classroom teaching in the mother tongue until the 6th grade
Late exit bilingual education
Nationality Act of 1906
Language performance
Contrastive Analysis
19. 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
Submersion
language brokers
Language skills
Acculturation
20. Need to emphasize speaking and writing (ability to communicate with others) in addition to input (listening and reading) in the classroom
Meaningful output
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
strategic competence
Transitional bilingual education
21. 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
Language loss
Interdependence
Information processing approach
22. Two languages in a community
Contrastive Analysis
Diglossia
Codemixing
Immersion
23. Immersion: optional - thrives on conviction - students generally start with same lack of experience in second language - additive bilingualism.
Immersion v Submersion
Audiolingualism
Submersion
Biliteracy
24. Occurs when there are contextual supports and props to support language (functional meaning)
Language Competence
Meaningful output
Lau v Nichols 1970
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
25. 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
Language loss
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills
Submersion
Total immersion
26. The ability to interact with text in reading or writing in order to produce meaning
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
Literacy
Metalinguistic awareness
Holistic view of bilingualism
27. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts
Proposition 227 of 1998
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Acculturation
sociolinguistic competence
28. Aim is to be bilingual and bicultural without loss of achievement. form depends on when child begins.
Contrastive Analysis
Immersion
Late exit bilingual education
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
29. The ability to think about the nature and functions of language
Literacy
Personal factors in language acquisition
Dual Language education
Metalinguistic awareness
30. Majority language students learn minority language. works better if there is high incentive (economic - social) for students to learn language
Construction of Meaning Approach
Mainstream Education (with foreign language teaching)
Partial immersion
Language interference
31. Literacy can be used to maintain hegemony/control masses and it can also be a liberator
Critical Literacy Approach
Bilingual Dual Coding Model
Acculturation
Immersion v Submersion
32. IQ tests - force students to converge onto one answer
sociocultural competence
Language loss
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Convergent thinking
33. 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'
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Transitional bilingual education
Oracy
Accommodation
34. Foreign words that have become permanent part of recipient language. part of continuum of codeswitching
Language borrowing
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Partial immersion
Transitional bilingual education
35. Type of second language information received when learning language
Language performance
Language inputs
Subtractive language acquisition
Separatist Education
36. Apx 50% immersion throughout infant and junior schooling
Transitional Bilingual Education
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Partial immersion
Communicative sensitivity
37. 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
Connectionism
Divergent thinking
Whole Language Approach
Language skills
38. Effect on self - esteem and ego - new cultural reference
non - linguistic outcomes
Partial immersion
Submersion with pull - out classes
Personal factors in language acquisition
39. Acquires both languages at the same time and prior to the age of 3
Cognitive/academic language proficiency
Simultaneous language acquisition
social competence
Codemixing
40. Ralph Yarborough introduced Bilingual Education Act as an amendment. Enacted in 1968. Indicated that bilingual programs were part of the federal education system.
strategic competence
Separate underlying proficiency
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Educate America Act of 1994
41. 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
Codeswitching
Intake
Transitional bilingual education
Proposition 227 of 1998
42. Outward evidence of language competence
Threshold theory
Sociocultural Literacy Approach
Language performance
Weak Models of Bilingual Education
43. Ability to use particular social strategies to achieve communicative goals - i.e. know when to interrupt - how to initiate conversation
social competence
Immersion
Simultaneous language acquisition
Diglossia
44. Inner - mental representation of language
Transitional bilingual education
Language competence
Codeswitching
Divergent thinking
45. Ability for person to come up with multiple answers to a problem (more creative thinkers)
strategic competence
non - linguistic outcomes
Threshold theory
Divergent thinking
46. Humans are cognitively wired for language and have universal - abstract nature of rules that underlie competence
Castaneda v Pickard 1978
Language Acquisition Device
Meaningful input
Separate underlying proficiency
47. Someone who is equally competent in two languages
Balanced bilingual
Transitional Bilingual Education
Transitional bilingual education
Communicative sensitivity
48. Moving back and forth between registers - dialects - or languages. change languages at phrase level
Construction of Meaning Approach
Codeswitching
Simultaneous language acquisition
Language competence
49. 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
Segregationalist
Lau v Nichols 1970
Educate America Act of 1994
Accommodation
50. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding
Segregationalist
Proposition 227 of 1998
Literacy
Translanguaging
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