CSET Spanish Subtest IV 1 Latest Update Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+ Accommodation - Correct Answer: happens when learner has weak identification with own ethnic group, does not regard their ethnic group as inferior to dominant group, finds their position mobile and wishes to move into "out-group"
Acculturation - Correct Answer: language learner is adapting to new culture - degree to which new language is gained depends on degree to which person integrates self into new culture
Additive bilingualism - Correct Answer: learn second language with little pressure to replace/remove first
Audiolingualism - Correct Answer: language learning is made possible by acquiring distinct set of speech habits. Lessons should move from simple to complex linguistics
Balanced bilingual - Correct Answer: someone who is equally competent in two
languages
Basic Interpersonal communicative skills - Correct Answer: occurs when there are contextual supports and props to support language (functional meaning)
Bilingual Dual Coding Model - Correct Answer: people have two separate language
systems for each language then share a separate non-verbal system that is shared by both
Biliteracy - Correct Answer: skills in literacy of primary language can be transferred to second language
Castaneda v Pickard 1978 - Correct Answer: Castaneda argued that Texas school
district was violating his children's rights by not offering them bilingual education to help them overcome their language barriers. Decision: district had to provide bilingual education to help students overcome hurdles
Circumstantial bilingualism - Correct Answer: learning language to survive
Codemixing - Correct Answer: changing languages at word level
Codeswitching - Correct Answer: moving back and forth between registers, dialects, or languages. change languages at phrase level
Cognitive/academic language proficiency - Correct Answer: context reduced situations: pronunciation, grammar, vocab 1 / 2
Common underlying proficiency - Correct Answer: both languages operate through the same central processing system
Communicative sensitivity - Correct Answer: awareness of social nature and
communicative functions of language (when to use which language, etc.). Allows bilinguals to correct errors faster and understand needs of listener
Connectionism - Correct Answer: brain is a complex network of links between
information, links are strengthened when repetitively activated
Construction of Meaning Approach - Correct Answer: idea that readers bring their own meaning to text
Contrastive Analysis - Correct Answer: differences between two languages that might pose problems for the teacher/students - was later found that many errors couldn't be explained through a negative transfer from the first to second language
Convergent thinking - Correct Answer: IQ tests, force students to converge onto one answer
Critical Literacy Approach - Correct Answer: literacy can be used to maintain
hegemony/control masses and it can also be a liberator
Developmental Maintenance and Heritage Language - Correct Answer: when children
use their home language as a meCorrect Answer: of instruction with goal of full
bilingualism. native language protected and developed alongside English. minority language used 50%+ of the time. Mostly elementary schools
Diglossia - Correct Answer: two languages in a community
discourse competence - Correct Answer: ability to use appropriate strategies in
constructing texts and spoken discourse
Divergent thinking - Correct Answer: ability for person to come up with multiple answers to a problem (more creative thinkers)
Dual Language education - Correct Answer: when equal numbers of minority and
majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization
Early exit bilingual education - Correct Answer: two years maximum in mother tongue
Educate America Act of 1994 - Correct Answer: major education reform. set high
standards for immigrant communities and continued federal support for bilingual programs. acknowledged benefits of bilingual education
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