Best Definition Multiple Choice Worksheet

What is the best definition of 'ACCESS'?

• Beliefs and understandings should be understood in the context of society

• Middle and high receive language assistance or content instruction in class of ELL only

• Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to State (Proficiency Test)

• Evaluates school data by looking at disaggregated data

What is the best definition of 'Accommodation'?

• Teaches about language

• The meaning of words

• Children dictate their own stories and read until grasped

• Motivations underlying adapting our language and communication patterns to others

What is the best definition of 'Acculturation'?

• District must seek to rectify language deficiency (can't place ELL in LD classes, exclude from college prep or fail to notify parents)

• No federal funding recipient can discriminate against ELL

• Becoming accustomed to customs, languages, practices, environment of a new culture or group

• Teaches about language

What is the best definition of 'Assimilation'?

• Study of letters and letter combinations

• Innate, nature, experience using language activates

• Children learn by being rewarded

• Process of integration

What is the best definition of 'Behaviorist Theory'?

• General term for word forms that have two or more meanings

• Social Constructivism and Language

• Children learn by being rewarded

What is the best definition of 'BICS'?

• Education Model Instruction in non-native language

• Designed to place a student in a specific program

• Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills

• Two words with the same pronunciation, but different meaning and spelling (wood/would, cite/sight)

What is the best definition of 'CALLA'?

• Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach

• The study of how the context impacts the interpretation of language

• Elements, patterns, traits or institutions that are common to all human cultures

• Interspersing one language with another

What is the best definition of 'CALP'?

• Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency

• The way in which speech sounds form patterns

• Children learn by being rewarded

• Evaluates school data by looking at disaggregated data

What is the best definition of 'Castaneda v. Pickard'?

• Language Acquisition Device

• 3 criteria to determine effectiveness of ELL program: 1) based on pedagogically sound education theory recognized by experts, 2) must be implemented effectively with resources for personnel, materials, and space, and 3) must produce results that language barriers are being overcome

• Motivations underlying adapting our language and communication patterns to others

• District must seek to rectify language deficiency (can't place ELL in LD classes, exclude from college prep or fail to

What is the best definition of 'CBI'?

• Order words are arranged to create meaning

• Content Based Instruction

• Becoming accustomed to customs, languages, practices, environment of a new culture or group

• Education Model Instruction in non-native language