Project Raíces ESL Domain I Quiz

A middle school science teacher is reading a set of student lab reports. The following sentence is in Remi's Report:

I knew that if I just had too more minutes, I could of finished.

Remi's sentence demonstrates difficulty in which of the following areas?

• Using past tense forms correctly

• Distinguishing between the oral and written forms of homonyms

• Using modals correctly

• Spelling

A fifth grade teacher's class includes beginning and intermediate ESL students. The teacher has students keep a section in their writing notebooks to jot down words that they encounter in their independent reading. The teacher calls these "Wow Words." There are only three "rules" for Wow Words: (1) jot down new words that you want to learn; (2) jot down words you already know but have never used and you want to use in your writing or speech; (3) jot down sentences in which you found the word. This activity focuses on which of the following areas of language?

• Phonology

• Lexicon

• Morphology

• Pragmatics

Which TWO of the following scenarios illustrate why ESL teachers need a strong foundation in the structure of English?

• A math student is having a lot of trouble in pronouncing quadrilateral.

• A science teacher administers homework quizzes at the beginning of each class period, but 90% of the students consistently fail.

• A history teacher wants students to memorize the names of the presidents of the United States.

• A social studies teacher wants students to write sentences that show cause-and-effect outcomes triggered by runoff in areas with limited vegetation.

Beginning EL students in an elementary math class are having a lot of trouble doing simple problems, but they do not tell the teacher what they find difficult about the problems. The teacher has a short discussion after each math problem is explained, but the students do not respond. Which of the following L2 acquisitions concepts probably explains what is going on?

• Silent period

• Limited Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills

• Interlanguage

• Limited Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency

Which TWO of the following strategies represent how EL students might rely on L1 knowledge?

• Translating challenging L2 passages into L1

• Pronouncing L2 words using sounds of L1

• Asking L2 speakers to explain challenging texts

• Looking up new L2 words in an L2 dictionary

Abel is an EL student in a high school history class. HIs essay on the beginning of slavery in America includes the following sentences.

1. 1. The slavery begins in 1619.

2. 2. A ship bring to the shore a lot of African captives.

3. 3. In the beginning, the business man trade food for the Africans.

Which TWO of the following L1 or L2 errors are shown in the passage?

• Verb tense

• Interference

• Spelling

• Plural formation

• Word choice

Abel is an EL student in a high school history class. HIs essay on the beginning of slavery in America includes the following sentences.

1. 1. The slavery begins in 1619.

2. 2. A ship bring to the shore a lot of African captives.

3. 3. In the beginning, the business man trade food for the Africans.

Sentence 3 in Abel's draft reflects which of the following structures?

• Fragment

• Simple sentence

• Complex sentence

• Compound sentence

Mr. Nyugen has a Grade 10 class with intermediate and advanced ELs. He wants students to understand how context impacts language choices. In a short pre-assessment activity, he does a quick poll to see how many students are familiar with the popular video game Fortnite. He sees that everyone in the class has either played or knows of the game. The teacher hands out two passages: 1. a transcript of a short conversation among several students as they talk during lunch about their latest Fortnite gaming session and 2. a paragraph from a student process essay explaining how to play Fortnite. Mr. Nyugen asks students to work in groups to create a T-chart comparing the language in the two samples, focusing on the differences they can identify. This activity primarily addresses which of the following areas of language study?

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Non-verbal communication

• Registers

The following sentence occurs in a student essay describing lessons learned in a physical education class.

From jumping rope to doing many crunches were just some of the many things you could do in this class.

Which of the following descriptions correctly analyzes the syntactic problems in this sentence?

• The sentence starts with an introductory prepositional phrase.

• The sentence is a run-on because the comma after crunches is missing.

• Two prepositional phrases are used in the subject position, creating a sentence that lacks a grammatical subject.

• The sentence has a compound subject.

Which of the following statements best explains why idioms pose particular challenges for ESL students?

• Idioms frequently are based on sophisticated allusions that EL students are not likely to recognize.

• The meanings of idioms cannot be derived from the literal meaning of the component words in the expression.

• Idiomatic expressions can be understood only if the speaker knows the genesis of the expression.

• Idioms usually have ambiguous meanings.