Praxis ESOL 5362

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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."

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Which activity provides practice sequencing information?

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An ESL teacher is teaching her students how to write paragraphs. She takes a basic paragraph and cuts the sentences into strips. She asks the students to arrange the sentences in a logical order.

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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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Which teaching practice is best for increasing students’ reading skills and vocabulary?

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Providing students with opportunities to use context to determine meanings of unknown words

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ESL pullout programs are most often found in school districts where:

• there are equal numbers of ELL and native English speakers, and multiple ESL teachers are placed in a single school
• there are small numbers of ELLs in each school, and ESL teachers frequently travel from school to school
• ESL teachers are bilingual, and the language of instruction for beginning students is the students’ native language
• ELLs follow the regular curriculum, and the language level of instruction is adapted to the proficiency level of the students

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there are small numbers of ELLs in each school, and ESL teachers frequently travel from school to school

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Which activity most effectively uses technology to provide writing practice in English in an intermediate ESL classroom?

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

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

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Code-switching

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Which assignment would rely most on the student's recognition of a topic sentence and supporting ideas?

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Rearrange the following sentences to create a logically sequenced composition.

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An intermediate-level ESL class has just finished reading an article online. The teacher assigns an essay in which the students are asked to take a stand on the issue presented in the article and provide data to support their opinion. Which rhetorical mode should students use in their essays?

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Argumentation

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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