Instruction ESOL GACE Prep

What is the primary emphasis in pull-out EOSL programs?

• Making students aware of the importance of translation abilities

• Developing English skills that prepare learners for their content area classes

• Fostering a sense of community between all English learners within the classroom

• Creating an environment where students feel free to speak in their native languages

How can ESOL teachers best assist Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE)?

• Focusing on academic linguistic skills first

• Providing students with individual attention on a regular basis

• Encouraging students to keep pace with other learners in their classes

• Planning content area and linguistic objectives seperately to avoid confusion

Which of the following activities results in the rehearsal of receptive skills?

• Writing a song

• Telling a story

• Reading a poem

• Giving a speech

Which of the following describes a push-in model of classroom instruction?

• Mr. Albrecht works individually with ESOL students during their study hall class

• Mrs. Olsen takes a group of three kindergarten students to her classroom for two hours of reading instruction on Tuesdays and Thursdays

• Ms. Garcia travels to Ana's eleventh-grade English class each day and provides services in that classroom through small-group and one-on-one instruction

• Mr. Forrester teaches nine middle school ESOL students in his own classroom where they study the same curriculum as native English speakers in other classes for the full day

Which skill set refers to the elements of language that are governed by rules?

• Discrete language sklls

• Integrated language skills

• Productive skills

• Receptive skills

The direct method of instruction is based on which of the following principles?

• Second languages should be acquired through many of the same ways as first languages

• Learners must use real communication to engage their natural strategies for language acquisition in order to acquire a new language

• Students use repetitive exercises that emphasize grammatical structure and vocabulary, focusing on key phrases and significant dialogue

• Teaching students in their native languages and concentrating on grammatical rules allows learners to find similarities between their native and learned languages

Which of the following is an example of cooperative planning between a content area teacher and an ESOL teacher?

• A content area teacher follows plans that are written by ESOL teachers and contain both content and language acquisition objectives

• A content area teacher writes the lesson plans and the ESOL teacher serves as a classroom aide while working with English learners

• As ESOL teacher pulls small groups of students into a seperate room to deliver the same content area lesson as the native English speakers and receiving

• And ESOL teacher and a content area teacher create lesson plans together to incorporate content area objectives for all students and language objective for English learners

Children who have not yet undergone puberty have more success at acquiring new languages because their brains have not undergone.

• Realia

• Lateralization

• Affective domain

• Communicative competence

Which of the following materials are likely to be found in a classroom in which the ESOL teacher uses Communicative Language Teacher (CLT)?

• A shelf of usage and syntax manuals

• Charts displaying various verbs conjugations

• Audio recordings of famous speeches made in English

• A box of magazines and take-out menus written in English

Ms. Jacobs is having students learn new vocabulary by listening to the lyrics of their favorite songs and repeating back the choruses of each one. As students repeat back the new words, Ms. Jacobs reviews the proper pronunciation , applauding students who say the words correctly. What method of instruction is Ms. Jacobs using?

• Audio-lingual method

• Communicative Approach

• Direct method

• Grammar-translation method