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Teaching In A Pluralistic Society
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1. A position supported by U.S. English - a citizen's action group - which is seeking to have English declared by Congress as the official language of the United States. Individuals who support this movement believe that all public documents - records -
Mennonite
Official Language
Secular Humanism
Dialects
2. A religion founded by Guru Nanak during the fifteenth or sixteenth century B.C.E in India. He drew from the elements of Hinduism and Islam - and stressed a universal single God. Union with God - he said - is accomplished through meditation and surren
Argot
Evangelical
Informal Standard
Sikhism
3. A spiritualistic movement that began in the early 1980's. it has roots in the 19th century spiritualism and in the counterculture movement of the 1960's - rejecting materialism and favoring spiritual experience to organized religion. It emphasizes re
New Age
Evangelical
Orthodox Jews
Language
4. A natural language that has been developed and used by persons who are deaf using a system of manual gestures.
Agnostic
Informal Standard
American Sign Language
Colloquialisms
5. An individual who has the ability to speak or utilize two or more dialects.
Conservative Protestants
Regression to the mean
Bidialectical
Colloquialisms
6. Conservative Christians who fall under a broad umbrella. Some are considered more moderate within the group and focus on social action agendas in addition to their religious agenda. Another group tends to be more conservative and focuses on issues su
Evangelical
Agnostic
Official Language
Argot
7. The second largest religion in the world - which is still growing n numbers and influence. It means to submit to the will of Allah or God and is derived from the same Arabic word as 'peace.' It offers hope and salvation to the righteous and God-feari
Ebonics
Allah
Secular Humanism
Islam
8. One who believes that the existence of God can neither be proven or unproven. An agnostic does not believe in a God or Goddess.
Agnostic
Proposition 227
English Language Learners
Language
9. A dialect used by many African Americans and used primarily by those in working-class families.
Atheist
Conservative Protestants
Black English
Proposition 227
10. A conservative religious group founded by rev. Jerry Falwell in 1979 consisting of a Christian action committee who campaigned and supported political candidates who supported Christian 'moral law' - believing that they supported the majority of peop
Official Language
New Age
Moral Majority
Standard English
11. Students who have limited or no English skills and who are in the process of learning English.
English Language Learners
Fundamentalist Christians
Bilingual Education
Agnostic
12. The informal or conversational speech in a community.
Atheist
Cognitive academic language proficiency
Allah
Colloquialisms
13. Members comprise the largest Christian church in the world with over 1 billion adherents. Most believers live in Europe - South America - and North America. The numbers of them in Africa and Asia have been growing in recent years. Catholics believe t
Pedagogy
Black Muslims
Fundamentalist
Roman Catholics
14. The Arabic word for Muslims - which means the struggle in the path of Allah or God. It can mean the struggle against human passions and instincts - which inhibit one from doing the work of God. It can also mean an armed struggle against forces of inj
Jihad
Liberal Protestants
Allah
Regression to the mean
15. Programs that emphasize bilingual education as a means of moving from the culture and language most commonly used for communication in the home to the mainstream of U.S. language and culture. The native language of the home is used to help the studen
Intelligent Design
Dialects
Koran
Transitional Programs
16. Art or science of teaching - which includes instructional strategies and methods.
Islam
Pedagogy
Old Order Amish
Colloquialisms
17. Occurs when two languages are of equal value and neither dominates the other
Old Order Amish
Agnostic
Colloquialisms
Additive bilingualism
18. A dialect used by the majority of African Americans and used primarily by those in working-class families.
Informal Standard
Bidialectical
Fundamentalist Christians
Ebonics
19. The adherents of Islam. Estimates are as high as 1.3 billion in the world - and the highest estimates in the U.S. are approximately 7 million. Only about 20% of them live in the Middle East. India and Indonesia have the largest numbers with about 175
Conservative Protestants
American Sign Language
Muslim
Argot
20. The ability to speak only one language.
Signed English
Born Again
Monolingualism
Bidialectical
21. One who positively does not believe in the existence of a God or Goddess.
Cognitive academic language proficiency
Atheist
Sabbath
Sikhism
22. They had their origins with the Swiss Mennonites by broke away in the 1690's because of disagreements over church discipline. Like the Mennonites - they are forbidden to go to war - swear oaths - or hold any public offices. They require their members
Black English
Old Order Amish
Bilingual Education
Standard English
23. The language considered proper in a community.
Orthodox Jews
Formal Standard
Pedagogy
Informal Standard
24. A statistical phenomenon that implies that scores at the extreme ends of the statistical distribution move toward the population average - with low scores moving higher and high scores moving lower.
Regression to the mean
Vernacular Black English
Hinduism
Evangelical
25. Occurs when a second language replaces the first.
Protestants
Standard English
Subtractive bilingualism
Informal Standard
26. Protestants who adhere to a simple lifestyle and simple forms of worship. They base their beliefs on the bible - particularly the New Testament - and place much focus on the Sermon on the Mount. They believe the Bible forbids them from going to war -
Formal Standard
Mennonite
Orthodox Jews
Nonstandard Dialect
27. The most conservative with of a religious group - whether Protestant - Catholic - Jewish - Islamic - etc. These are often groups that dig in their heels to protect their faith from external forces they perceive as attacking their faith and morality.
Born Again
Roman Catholics
Buddhism
Fundamentalist
28. Written or spoken human speech. It is a system that enables people to communicate with one another and to share their thoughts and ideas with one another.
Hinduism
Moral Majority
Language
Bilingualism
29. Members of the Roman Catholic Church who believe that the POpe in Rome is God's visible lieutenant on earth and the rightful leader of Christianity.
Protestants
Orthodox Jews
Informal Standard
Catholic
30. The holy writings of Islam - believed by Muslims to be the exact words revealed by God or Allah to the prophet Muhammad. It is written differently in English.
Fundamentalist Christians
Nonstandard Dialect
Religious Right
Koran
31. The oldest - most conservative - and most diverse form of Judaism. They look upon every word in their sacred texts as being divinely inspired. They adhere to a strict dietary law (kosher) - which requires the use of special ingredients and preparatio
Sikhism
Fundamentalist
Standard English
Orthodox Jews
32. The major religion of India and the third largest religion in the world - with over 750 -000 adherents and as many as 1 million in the united States. Unlike Christianity and Islam - they do not limit itself to as single religious book of writings - o
Liberal Protestants
Colloquialisms
Dialects
Hinduism
33. A dialect used by many African Americans and used primarily by those in working-class families.
Signed English
Protestants
Mennonite
African American English
34. A dialect used by the majority of African Americans and used primarily by those in working-class families.
Intelligent Design
Vernacular Black English
Fundamentalist
Agnostic
35. A system that translates the English oral or written word into a sign.
Signed English
Sikhism
Language
Buddhism
36. Somewhat secret vocabulary of a co-culture group.
Argot
Colloquialisms
Signed English
Informal Standard
37. Fundamentalist Protestants who accept the Bible literally as the word of God. The group may include fundamentalist militants who strongly oppose gay rights and abortion rights.
Colloquialisms
Moral Majority
Bilingualism
Religious Right
38. The higher levels of proficiency required in highly structured academic situations.
Informal Standard
African American English
Cognitive academic language proficiency
Mennonite
39. The English spoken by a particular group of individuals in a community. Typically this group is the professional educated middle class and the group with a high degree of influence and prestige in the community.
Transitional Programs
Sikhism
Standard English
Official Language
40. The term advocated by conservative Protestants who support the teaching of the Biblical account of creation in public schools in addition to or in place of the theory of evolution.
Intelligent Design
Sikhism
Creation Science
Standard English
41. The general name given to an extremely divers group of Christians - who may differ slightly or greatly from one another. Together they form the second largest Christian group in the world after Roman Catholics. They are centered primarily in Europe a
Mennonite
Black Muslims
Additive bilingualism
Protestants
42. A nonreligiously based philosophy promoting man as the measure of all things. typically rejects the concept of a personal God and regards humans as supreme. Secular humanists tend to see God as a creation of man - rather than man being a creation of
Secular Humanism
Accent
Proposition 227
Informal Standard
43. Variations of a language usually determined by region or social class.
Informal Standard
Agnostic
Born Again
Dialects
44. The acceptable written language that is typically found in grammar books.
Evangelical
Atheist
Formal Standard
American Sign Language
45. A theory that only an intelligent being could have created a natural world so complex and well ordered as ours. Some - if not most supporters of the evolution theory - view this as a new term for creationism or creation science.
Secular Humanism
Agnostic
Additive bilingualism
Intelligent Design
46. A group of African Americans who now align themselves primarily with the Sunni form of Islam. In the U.S. They had likely had their early beginnings in the late 1800's - but at that time had little in common with traditional Islam. In the 1970's Elij
Liberal Protestants
Born Again
Signed English
Black Muslims
47. Basic -everyday conversational skills - which English Language Learners can develop in approximately two years.
Argot
Liberal Protestants
Basic Interpersonal communications skills
Mennonite
48. An initiative passed by California voters in 1998 that required all language minority students to be educated in sheltered English immersion programs - not normally intended to exceed one year. Although it has not completely succeeded - i was designe
Muslim
Black English
Proposition 227
Fundamentalist
49. The fourth largest religion in the world. Founded in 535 b.c. by Siddhartha Gautama - who was believed to be prince of India. They believe in reincarnation and emphasize virture - good conduct - morality - concentration - meditation - mental developm
Evangelical
Formal Standard
Pedagogy
Buddhism
50. Christians who have had a conversion experience with a spiritual rebirth into a new life.
Fundamentalist
Black English
Fundamentalist Christians
Born Again