ESL Praxis 0360
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What is Interlanguage? | A deveopmental system based on L1 , L2 input, language universals, and communication strategies. |
| Which of the following teacher actions would best support the development of the literacy skills of elementary ESOL students? | Providing students with motivating reading and writing materials and assignments at an appropriate level. |
| Where is the error in pronunciation in the word "she" if the student pronounces "she" as [si]? | Point of articulation. [s] is an alveolar fricative sound, and [ʃ] is a palato-alveolar fricative sound. |
| How would a native speaker of standard American English pronounce the word "these"? | [ðiyz] |
| What is an apropriate way to determine a new ESOL student's level for classroom placement? | To administer a diagnostic test. |
| How would a native speaker of standard English pronounce "laughed"? | [læft] |
| Where is the error in the word "bed" if a student prounounces "bed" as [bet]? | [t] is a voiceless sound and [d] is voiced. Voiced and voiceless sounds. |
| What approach to language learning makes the greatest use of active participation, including gestures and bodily movement? | Total Physical Response |
| What method encourages individual accountability in cooperative group learning? | Evaluating the contribution of each individual member of the group. |
| When is subtractive bilingualism most likely to occur to second-language learners? | When the second-language learner has little opportunity to continue using their firs language. |
| The majority of the ESOL learners in the U.S. speak? | Spanish |
| Alternative Assessments | Created and selected to fit specific student needs rather than being standardized for the general population. |
| Semantic Maps | Graphically organize a student's knowledge and ideas about a topic, are particularly appropriate in the first stage of the writing process-prewriting and brainstorming. |
| What is Constructivism? | A throretical body of literature that views the human brain as having certain fundamental structures of understanding that enable it to draw meaning from experience. They believe that learning occurs as a result of interactions between the environment and the learner's mind. |
| What are Immmersion Programs? | Refers to programs in which native and non-native speakers of English work together, with all students learning content and language through two languages. |
| What is the Natrualistic Method? | A period of time devoted to learning solely by listening before any speaking is allowed. |
| What is Direct Method? | Pronunciation is taught through intuition and imitation; students imitate a model--teacher or a recording. A grammatical approach that focuses less on explicit instruction of grammar rules and structures and more on the repetition and memorization of language patterns. |
| What are Bilingual Programs? | Two-Way Developmental Bilingual Education, One-way Developmental Education, Transitional Bilingual Education, ESL taught through academic content using current approaches, ESL Pull-Out. |
| What is the Audiolingual Method? | It is patterns of drills and dialogue desighed to develop grammatical structures and vocabulary in a highly sequential structures and vocabulary in a highly sequential manner. Teacher reinforces accurate production and error corection through consistent feedback. |
| What is Total Physical Response? | Language learning method based on the coordination of speech and aciton. Emphasizes direct associaiton with the target language. |
| What is the Silent Way? | Subordinates teaching to learning. It presents learners with simple linguistic situations that they were to observe and then describe in the target language, focusing especially on the actions they witnessed. |
| What is circumlocution? | The use of more words than necesssary to express something, especially to avoid saying it directly. |
| Achievement Test | Can provide information about how much students learn and retain from a unit of instruciton. |
| What is Language Experience Approach? | Students orally relate their personal experiences to the teacher; the teacher transcribes these experiences, complete with errors, and then developes other reading and writing activities based on the transcription. |
| What is a Digraph? | A pair of letters that together are used to repressent one sound. The consonants "sh" in the word "shirt" represents a single sound. |
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