ESL Teaching Strategies Quiz

When a teacher says, "Touch your nose," and then touches her own nose, expecting students to do the same, she is primarily using:

• Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

• Total Physical Response (TPR)

• Storytelling

• Grammar-Translation Method

A new student, Lia, has been in your kindergarten ESL class for three weeks and has not spoken any English words yet, though she watches and sometimes mimics actions. This is likely:

• A sign that Lia is not interested in learning English.

• The 'silent period,' a normal stage of language acquisition.

• Because Lia needs more explicit grammar instruction.

• An indication that the activities are too difficult.

"Comprehensible input" means:

• Only using words the children already know.

• Speaking very loudly and slowly.

• Using language (with support like gestures, visuals) that children can understand, even if some words are new.

• Giving children complex texts to read.

Which of these is the BEST example of a developmentally appropriate activity for teaching colors to ESL kindergarteners?

• Giving them a worksheet to label colors with written words.

• Playing a game where they find and touch objects of a specific color in the room.

• Explaining the different shades and hues of each color.

• Having them write sentences using color adjectives.

To effectively manage transitions between activities, a teacher should:

• Suddenly switch activities to keep children alert.

• Give a warning, use a consistent signal (like a song), and have the next activity ready.

• Tell children they will lose playtime if they are not quick.

• Only transition when every single child is perfectly silent.

When a child says, "I goed to the park," the teacher's best response to encourage language development without causing anxiety would be:

• "No, that's wrong. You should say, 'I WENT to the park.'"

• To ignore the mistake completely and change the subject.

• "Oh, you went to the park! That sounds like fun! What did you see?"

• To give the child a grammar worksheet on past tense verbs.

The main purpose of using games like "What's Missing?" in an ESL kindergarten class is to:

• Test the children's IQ.

• Keep children busy so the teacher can prepare other things.

• Make learning vocabulary and practicing memory skills fun and engaging.

• Identify the most competitive students in the class.