SWPD Central Review

1. Focusing on background knowledge and experience of the English learner (EL) is important because it taps into all EXCEPT which of the following?

• Cultural experiences

• Prior knowledge

• Schema

• Primacy-Recency Phenomenon

2. Part of building/extending background knowledge includes:

• Providing quizzes to remind students of what they don’t know.

• Providing links to previous and future lessons.

• Giving homework assignments to prepare students for tests.

• Sending notes home to parents about the student’s class progress.

3. One of the best ways to integrate content and language across the curriculum is:

• Through PLCs.

• Using thematic units.

• Using scripted curricula.

• Teaching online lessons.

4. Thematic units are particularly good for ELs because:

• The redundancy of concepts and language provides more opportunity for reinforcement of content and language.

• It shows ELs that teachers in other classes are all watching and keeping track of them.

• It helps to save money on curriculum materials that can be used in other ways.

• It keeps the separate skill areas (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) isolated better so they can be more easily evaluated.

5. Monitoring Progress and Providing Feedback requires and understanding of the difference between mistakes and errors. Which of the following is NOT true about mistakes and errors?

• Mistakes are considered slips of the tongue.

• Errors reflect developmental competence.

• Mistakes can be easily self-corrected and errors cannot be self-corrected.

• Mistakes must be corrected immediately; errors will self-correct over time.

6. A recast is a form of corrective feedback in which:

• The teacher asks another student to help answer the question.

• The teacher repeats the student’s error with a questioning tone.

• The teacher reformulates all or part of the student’s utterance.

• The teacher uses nonverbal cues to indicate that there is an error.