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TEXES ESL 154
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Question 1: What is sheltered english
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used to make academic content instruction in English understandable to ESL studetns, teacher combines cognitively challenging instruction with english and focus on social development, teachers use physical and visual aids
Question 2: For spelling instruction you want to focus on
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patterns in language Question 3: structures are sequenced by means of contrastive analysis and taught one at a time, structural patterns are taught using repetitive drills
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audio lingual method
Question 4: What is reciprocal teaching
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takes place in form of dialogue between teachers and students using segments of text structured by summarizing, questions generating, clarifying, and predicting, teacher and students take turns assuming roles
Question 5: What is cooperative learning groups
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hetergenous group varying in levels
Question 6: What is language experience approach (LEA)
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student dictates as the teacher writes down
Question 7: What is competency 018
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the importance of research and comprehension skills to children's academic success and provides children with instruction that promotes their acquisition and effective use of these skills in the content areas Question 8: reading of difficult classical texts is begun early, little attention is paid to the content of texts which are treated as exercises in grammatical analysis
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grammar transltion method
Question 9: Affective support includes
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anxiety free learning situation, valued native language and culture, advocacy for right, opportunities for success
Question 10: Syntactic (structural)
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student uses knowledge of grammer to decide if a word is correct
Question 11: Students should not be forced to communicate is part of
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the silent period Question 12: little or no grammatical explanation, grammar is taught by inductive analogy rather than deductive explanation
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audio lingual method
Question 13: What level is this student?
Can comprehend grade level spoken English, able to create clarify critique and evaluate ideas and responses, need processing time and esl techniques to support and comprehend some details and non modified info
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Advanced Level Question 14: When the new language unconsciously and automatically comes to the learner this ex. stop sign is called
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Language acquistion Question 15: Gestures, use TRP, Language focuses on conveying meaning, repetition, doesn't force to speak, write key words on board, use technology
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Sample Teacher Behaviors for Beginning Stage Students Question 16: When a student is adding "ed" to words too much this is called
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Overgeneralization
Question 17: Integrative motivation often results in
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additive bilingualism
Question 18: What is lexical application
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academic application
Question 19: What is competency 021
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the basic principles in literacy assessment and uses a variety of assessments to guide literacy instruction
Question 20: Because these learners English is so limited, their comprehension quickly breaks down when they try to read texts that are written for non LEP students at their grade level
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Beginning Level of Reading Proficiency Question 21: Will commit errors that show interference from L1, Communicate best when reading and writing topics are highly familiar and concrete, writing shows repetition of ideas
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Sample intermediate level of student behaviors Question 22: anxiety, good self image, and interest and motivation are are elements of
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the affective filter hypothesis
Question 23: What is competency 015
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the importance of word analysis and decoding for reading and provides many opportunities for children to improve their word analysis and decoding abilities Question 24: involved demonstration by teacher on role playing through active use of pictures, films, tapes, and other visuals, stress is placed on total immersion in L1 with no use of L1
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Direct method
Question 25: How many times does the LPAC meet for each student
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once per year
Question 26: Linguistic support includes
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research based language instruction, meaningful interactions with more proficient english speakers, instruction designed for level proficiency, explicit vocab instruction