ESL STUDY NOTES

BICS basic interpersonal communication skills

• program for esl students

• skills necessary to function in everyday life

• esl resources

An ESL teacher uses supplementary texts in class that feature aspects of different cultures. The teacher also highlights vocabulary words from each unit that can be translated into the two or three languages the students speak. The class reads the words together and discusses them before beginning each unit. The teacher’s actions are primarily examples of which of the following?

• Culturally responsive instruction

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnocentrism

• Multilingual education

Volunteers from local churches and businesses are interested in assisting students in a school’s ESL program. Which TWO of the following tasks are the most appropriate roles for the volunteers to fulfill?

• Team teaching with a general education or ESL teacher

• Facilitating guided reading groups and literature circles

• Mentoring students with the guidance of the classroom teacher

• Assisting with the tutoring of struggling readers and writers

• Administering TELPAS and other assessments to gather data

A school is planning a meeting for ESL families to focus on parental involvement. The goal is to make the families feel welcome and provide them with the most effective ways to support language development at home. Which THREE of the following are the most effective approaches to help build trust with ESL families?

• Demonstrating to parents how to continue to build on foundational skills

• Having bilingual support personnel in attendance during the meeting

• Encouraging parents to interact with their children in their first language

• Providing American snacks and drinks during the meeting

• Holding the meeting during the school day

Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding the transfer of literacy knowledge and skills from L1 to L2?

• Literacy instruction should be confined to L1 to prevent negative transfer between L1 and L2.

• Literacy instruction should be confined to L2 to prevent negative transfer between L1 and L2.

• Literacy experiences developed in L1 with native language scaffolding have a positive impact on literacy development in L2.

• Literacy experiences developed in L1 through home reading activities have a negative impact on literacy development in L2.

Which of the following is the best strategy to help ELLs when having phonetic struggles?

• Presenting small group lessons on digraphs, consonant blends, and vowel sounds

• Focusing on context clues and word structure analysis during read-alouds

• Integrating activities with high-frequency words into learning centers

• Modeling think-aloud strategies during guided reading

Miscue Assessment

• read unfamiliar text to record errors

• oral test for esl students

• basic skills for everyday life

wmls woodcock - munoz- language survey

• L1 testing

• oral language proficiency exam

• court case

phonogram

• words that do not follow the sound rules

• structure of a word

• letter or combination of letters that produce a certain sound

structured english immersion model

• ell's taught in english and grade level

• instruction taught in two languages