ESL 154 Competency 01 & 02

1. It would be most appropriate to use a formal language register for which of the following types of oral presentation?

• Texting a friend

• Presenting a talk at a town meeting

• Composing a wedding toast for your best friend

• Writing the lyrics to a song

2. An ESL teacher has just finished a unit about how to make words plural in English. In the following days, the teacher notices that Jorge, an ELL, says things like "I have a lot of homeworks" and "I want to buy my mom jewelries." The nature of Jorge's errors most likely indicates a need for further instruction on the use of

• Noncount nouns

• Pronouns

• Proper nouns

• Adjectives

3. Mr. Kini, an elementary teacher, has several intermediate-level ELLs in his class. During workstation time, all students participate in language workstations. Station 1 has several stacks of note cards with a word written on each card. Students use the cards to make sentences. Which of the following is the primary focus of the station?

• Focus on the Behaviorist Theory

• Focus on phonology

• Focus on understanding cognates

• Focus on understanding syntax

4. The ESL teacher distributes the following quiz to his ESL students. The quiz has pictures with words and tells them that they will be asked to circle the words that they hear. He allows the students to look over the quiz for several minutes. Then he plays an audio recording that states one of the words given for each number. After the students circle the words that they hear, he collects the quizzes for grading. The primary goal of the assessments is to:

• Determine students' abilities to identify syntax

• Determine students' abilities to use punctuation

• Determine students' abilities to distinguish between sounds

• Determine students' abilities to understand idioms

5. If a student is asked to write the word 'whale' and spells it 'wale' what might the student's level of spelling be?

• phonetic

• prephonetic

• symbolic

• invented

6. To effectively teach all the components of a word such as "incomprehensible" and to convey its meaning, it is necessary for ESL teachers to use their knowledge of:

• Phonology

• Phonics

• Syntax

• Morphology and Semantics

7. In most cases, basic communications skills (BICS) take markedly less time to develop than academic language skills (CALP). Which of the following scenarios best illustrates this phenomenon?

• A student pronounces English perfectly and has strong receptive skills in English.

• A student speaks social English fluently but is having difficulty understanding content-area lectures.

• A student understands English, but is hesitant to communicate in English.

• A student is bilingual, biliterate and bicultural.

8. Krashen's second language acquisition theories have NOT been influential in promoting language teaching practices that focus on:

• Communication not form

• Allowing students a silent period, rather than forcing immediate speech production

• Eliminating native language in the home

• Creating a low-anxiety environment

9. Current research suggest that the most appropriate way for a teacher to respond to an EL who mispronounces a word is to

• Model the EL's response using the correct pronunciation.

• Have the EL record the correct pronunciation of the word and listen to it multiple times.

• Refer the EL to the speech therapist for the pronunciation concerns.

• Ignore the mistake eventually the student will self-correct.

10. Ms. Frank, the principal, passes one of the ESL students in the hallway at school and says "Hello, Chang." The student responds, "Hey, what's up Ms. Frank?" Based on his response, Chang will most likely benefit from further instruction in:

• academic language

• language loads

• language registers

• language syntax