Why are Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) usually easier for ESOL students to acquire than Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) skills?

BICS are more often context driven, whereas CALP requires more advanced knowledge & skills.

Which of the following sentences is/are correct? You and he should go to the store. You and him should go to the store. Stand and him should go to the store. Both B and C are written correctly.

You and he should go to the store.

Which sentence uses the present perfect verb tense? Options: He's been there a few times already., Katrina thinks the present is perfect for her mother., Juan is going to drive home tomorrow., Sean leaves at 8:00 am everyday.

He's been there a few times already.

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: Wrapping packages for the soldiers, the kid woman tightly rolled the T-shirts to see how much space remained for the homemade cookies.

wrapping packages for the soldiers

According to behaviorists, how are children encouraged to string together groups of syllables to form words?

by being provided with rewards and incentives for speech

How does Noam Chomsky's theory of Universal Grammar differ from the behaviorist theories that existed before his?

It assumes an innate, genetic capacity to learn language.

What should Mrs. Holly do to help Ana develop her pronunciation skills, given that Ana substitutes the /h/ sound for the /j/ sound?

Plan activities that focus on Ana's accent.

Mr. Swenson is trying to help Jacque work through his silent period and begin speaking more in class. What should he do to encourage Jacque's speech? Options: Assign students in Jacque's class individual oral reports. Take Jacque aside and work with him privately on speaking. Tell Jacque that if he does not begin speaking in class he will fail. Set up a rotation of small-group activities for Jacque's class.

Set up a rotation of small-group activities for Jacque's class.

Why do second-language learners develop an interlanguage?

to help them move forward in their second-language learning

What are some of the factors that may lead to differences in morpheme acquisition order in English language learners?

cognitive and first-language interference

Xiang is highly motivated in his English class. He strives for high grades, rarely misses an assignment, and asks thoughtful questions in class. How can Xiang's teacher continue to encourage his motivation? Options: by allowing him to skip an assessment, by having him complete easier assignments, by providing him with small-group opportunities, by giving him assignments to complete on his own

by providing him with small-group opportunities

What strategy should Ms. Becht try to motivate Anja, who has shown little interest in learning English and rarely completes her assignments? Options: Allow Anja to create an assignment for herself to complete. , Have Anja working in small groups in order to encourage her to speak. , Provide Anja with a list of simple vocabulary words to memorize and recite. , Design a contract in which Anja can earn homework passes for turning in her work.

Allow Anja to create an assignment for herself to complete.

What should Mr. Horn do to help Miguel with his /h/ sounds?

Pronounce familiar h words correctly and have Miguel repeat them.

Which of the following is an example of using comprehensible input to increase student vocabulary? Students are provided with a list of vocabulary words that focuses on a central theme. , Students generate a list of questions regarding vocabulary that they would like to know. , A teacher narrates what she is doing as she shows students how to work a math problem. , A teacher assigns a short reading paragraph that incorporates both familiar and unfamiliar words.

A teacher assigns a short reading paragraph that incorporates both familiar and unfamiliar words.

Which of the following scaffolding techniques is least effective in presenting new content to students learning English? using modified reading materials, previewing vocabulary prior to a lesson, providing students with an outline for notes, performing regular checks for understanding

performing regular checks for understanding

Which classroom activity would best help students to understand phonemes? Options: having students map out the syllables in sentences they create, asking students to sound out words they hear and write them down, asking students to write down all the ways they know how to create the /f/ sound, having students break down the words of a story they hear into individual sounds

having students break down the words of a story they hear into individual sounds

Which assignment would allow students to practice applying the standard conventions of written English? Options: editing a friend's history essay, reading a novel for a literature class, discussing how to write a lab report, writing a rough draft of a research paper

editing a friend's history essay

Why are students with strong phonological awareness of their native language more likely to succeed in learning to read English?

They have a higher likelihood of knowledge transfer between languages.

Which of the following activities uses the direct method of second-language instruction? Students are paired together to write a short story. Students read a play together with each student taking a role. Students choose a topic from a teacher-provided list and have a discussion about it. Students give oral presentations on research they have done for their science classes.

Students choose a topic from a teacher-provided list and have a discussion about it.

In order to ensure that she is using the natural method correctly, Mrs. Holmes must do which of the following? provide specific targeted vocabulary, require students to speak in the target language, provide instruction in the students' first languages, make specific corrections to grammatical errors

provide specific targeted vocabulary

Why do some language theorists and instructors OPPOSE the grammar-translation method of foreign language instruction?

Students are not required to speak in the target language.

Which of the following would be considered task-based instruction? students listen to songs on the radio, select a song, & rehearse the lyrics; they use the chorus of the song as a conversation starter, students translate passages from their favorite short stories; they trade papers with a partner and read each other's papers, students organize a classroom party using their target language; they create a detailed plan, distributing responsibility and mapping out activities, students read aloud to one another from texts provided by the teacher; then they take turns asking one another questions about the text

students organize a classroom party using their target language; they create a detailed plan, distributing responsibility and mapping out activities

Mrs. Rose would like to try total physical response with one of her classes. Which class would this method MOST benefit? students who are preparing to exit ESOL instruction, students who are in their first year of ESOL instruction, students who demonstrate advanced speaking & listening skills, students who demonstrate intermediate intermediate reading & writing skills

students who are in their first year of ESOL instruction

Ms. Ortega is a new ESOL teacher providing push-in instruction to 8th grade English Language Arts students. Which activity would NOT be a good use of her specialized training? Options: helping her co-teacher grade multiple-choice quizzes from the language learners in her class, creating differentiated materials for language learners in the classroom, contributing to the co-teacher's lesson plan and helping her to execute it with the language learners in the classroom, working with a small group of English language learners to understand a difficult passage in the novel the class is reading.

helping her co-teacher grade multiple-choice quizzes from the language learners in her class

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Which of the following IPA symbols represents the sound of the consonant cluster /ng/ in the word swing? [O], [ae], [n], [f]

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[n]

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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Which of the following would most likely explain why a student is having problems being understood when she says the words think, wreath, the, ruthless?

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She is not distinguishing between the voiced & unvoiced /th/ sounds.

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In which of the following would a speaker most likely have rising intonation?
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Please bring some bread.
I am afraid.
Frankie & Johnny are waiting outside.
Do you want to watch a movie?

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Do you want to watch a movie?

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The underlined part of the word rebuilding is

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a stem or root.

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Which of the following statements is/are true? A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language. All words are morphemes, but not all morphemes are words. An affix is a free morpheme. Both A & B are true statements.

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Both A & B are true statements.

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Syntax is concerned with which of the following? how words are combined to convey meaning, stages of second language acquisition, ensuring transfer of language skills from L1 to L2, how words are formed into phrases or sentences

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how words are formed into phrases or sentences

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Semantics could be applied to which aspect of everyday English? Options: the use of quotation marks in quoted speech, the use of idioms, the pronunciation of vowels, the use of commas with conjunctions

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the use of idioms

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