Praxis ESOL 5362

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Which of the following is a clause? After several meetings about the situation, Although she cannot be there on Monday, In addition to his academic record, The next speaker on the agenda

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Although she cannot be there on Monday

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Makoto, a high school ELLE L L, was in the school hallway speaking to his peers using an informal register with a good deal of slang. When Ms. Richards, his math teacher, approached him while he was with his friends, Makoto immediately spoke to her in a highly formal register. This is an example of

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convergence

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Which of the following activities most effectively uses technology to provide writing practice in English in an intermediate ESL classroom?
- Having students correspond by e-mail with a pen pal whose native language is English
- Having students use a computer to copy English sentences from a textbook
- Having students use a software program that displays direct translations from the ELLs' native language
- Having students write basic directions in English for using a computer program

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Having students correspond by e-mail with a pen pal whose native language is English

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In daily lessons, Ms. Peterson, an ESL teacher, uses vocabulary words and sentence structures that her students have seen before. Additionally, she incorporates words and structures that they have not yet studied. Ms. Peterson is using the concept of

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comprehensible input

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The student’s explanation of manubrio is an example of

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a communication strategy

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The passage contains an example of which of the following language features? Code-switching, Hypercorrection, Language loss, Extralinguistic context

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Code-switching

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A middle school beginning ESL classroom is receiving a number of ELLs, some of whom have interrupted formal education in their L1. Which of the following would be MOST useful to the students in their first lessons? Options: Asking students to read aloud, Assigning additional homework, Introducing commonly used vocabulary, Focusing on English grammar rules

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Introducing commonly used vocabulary

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In the first half of the twentieth century, many school districts in the United States sought to Americanize ELLs and made no special accommodations for their linguistic and cultural differences. This practice reflects a policy of

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assimilation

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Ms. Lee uses a fill-in-the-blank grammar test to assess her ELLs' knowledge of verb tenses. Which term best describes this type of testing?

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Objective

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Which assignment presents discrete practice in forming compound and complex sentences?

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Combine the following pairs of sentences using "and," "so," or "because."