ESOL Praxis: Planning and Implementing Instruction

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.

Answer explanation

Direct method = focus on speaking and listening; authentic language use

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

Answer explanation

Natural method focuses on growing vocabulary in language and speech

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

• Students are taught in their native languages.

• Students do not learn to write in the target language.

• Students acquire vocabulary through reading exercises.

• Students are not required to speak in the target language.

Mr. Hansen's students are learning new vocabulary that they might use in everyday conversation. They listen to a recording once, repeating each line after the speaker. As students recite back what they have heard, Mr. Hanse praises the pronunciation of some students while ignoring that of others.

• Audio-lingual

• Induction

• Direct method

• Grammar-translation

Karla has been practicing interactions she will have with friends at her new school. She has been working to understand idiomatic expressions and rehearsing their use in casual conversation.

• Communicative competence

• Morpheme acquisition

• Phonemic awareness

• Rhetorical patterns

Which of the following would be considered task-based instruction?

• Students listen to songs on the radio, select a song, and 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.

Mrs. Rose would like to try total physical response in 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 and listening skills

• Students who demonstrate intermediate reading and writing skills

Which of the following manipulatives is NOT commonly found in a Silent Way classroom?

• Cuisenaire rods

• Fidel charts

• Sound-color charts

• Translation charts

Ms. Ortega is a new ESOL teacher, and she has been assigned to provide push-in instruction to students in an eighth grade English Language Arts class. Which of the following activities would NOT be a good use of Ms. Ortega's specialized training?

• 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.

Pull-out ESOl instruction is most commonly found in which academic setting?

• Preschool

• Elementary school

• Middle school

• High school