CompetEnglish language learners' (ELLs') learning

Which of the following cultural beliefs about education would most likely lead a high school ELL to participate actively in a small group discussion about a literary work?

• Teachers are knowledgeable experts whose ideas should not be challenged.

• Independent work is the best indication of students' academic progress.

• Analytical thinking and clarity of self-expression are important academic skills.

• A classroom activity must produce tangible results in order to be worthwhile.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

ELLs who speak English at home, at school, and with friends and no longer observe the traditions, beliefs, and lifestyle of their heritage cultures are exhibiting assimilation.

• accommodation.

• assimilation.

• enculturation.

• pluralism.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

In the word unreasonableness, the underlined part is the suffix.

• prefix.

• compound.

• root.

• suffix.

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Read the question and select the best response. "The minister married my cousin." "They're moving sidewalks." Misinterpretation of the statements above is the result of

• lexical anomaly.

• overextension.

• redundancy.

• structural ambiguity.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Read the question and select the best response. Which of the following theories explains conscious error correction during oral L2 production?

• input hypothesis.

• monitor hypothesis.

• affective filter hypothesis.

• natural order hypothesis.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Most students in a 6th-grade beginning-level ESOL class use the morpheme -ed to create the past tense form of all verbs, including irregular ones. These students are applying which of the following L2 transitional strategies?

• positive transfer

• overgeneralization

• simplification

• avoidance

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CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Which of the following bilingual education program models is designed to develop a high level of competence in two languages by both non-native English speakers and native English speakers?

• enrichment immersion

• dual language

• early-exit transitional

• transitional

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CCSS.RL.5.6

An ELL is assigned the task of writing a narrative about an animal. The student asks the teacher, "What is puppy, you know, little one baby, for cat?" This is an example of

• circumlocution.

• overgeneralization.

• simplification.

• hypothesis testing.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A 1st-grade ELL spells the word found as "fawnd." This is an example of

• pseudo-words.

• self-generated words.

• auditory discrimination.

• pseudo-letters.

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CCSS.RF.1.3A

Based on research in second language literacy development, which of the following statements is true?

• oral-language development precedes literacy development.

• oral-language development follows literacy development.

• oral-language development impedes literacy development.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10