ELL Module 4 Summary Quiz

Which of the following are stages in the acquisition of language?

• Pre-Production

• Early Production

• Speech Emergent

• Beginning Fluency

• Intermediate Fluency

What is the name of the last stage of language acquisition?

Why is it in the best interest of the student to not replace their primary language with English?

• False, we want to replace the primary language with English.

• They can continue to learn content in their primary language.

• Their language connects them to their family.

• Their language connects them to their culture.

Teachers should _____ on students' experiences and knowledge. Giving them opportunities activate their schema and make connections to course content.

Multilingual learners use ___ their language skills to strengthen language development and learning.

Which of the following is an effective practice for ELLs in the Pre-Production phase?

• Use read-aloud activities and music to encourage listening by students

• Ask them to speak more often in class activities

• Correct all their mistakes

• Model words and sentence meanings with gestures and actions

What is the third stage of language acquisition? In this stage the student is speaking more often and relies heavily on context clues.

How can you encourage students to learn more academic language and skills when they are in the intermediate stage of language acquisition?

• Introduce academic skills (eg. brainstorming, summarizing, comparing and contrasting).

• Use graphic organizers and planners, and have students fill them in with great details.

• Introduce abstract ideas that do not relate to the curriculum or the students, the harder the better.

• Model key academic vocabulary and phrases. Task students with practicing these words and phrases.

What stage do students begin speaking the English language when acquiring it?

In what stage is it appropriate to begin asking students questions that extend past being just short and literal and require students to provide reasoning for answers?

• Pre-Production

• Intermediate Fluency

• Advanced Fluency

• Beginning Fluency