The man most associated with the behaviorist theory of language learning
Who is Skinner
100
The act of entering and settling in a country which is not your native land
What is immigrate
100
What is the result of test items derived from mainstream culture that may be understood by students from other cultures differently
What is test bias
100
The intonation, stress, and pronunciation pattern of a language
What is phonology
200
Language used in informal, social settings
What is slang
200
The theory explaining that the capacity for language is hard-wired into humans before birth
What is Innatism
200
The process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group
What is acculturation
200
An evaluation that is similar to, or embedded in relevant, real-world activities
What is Authentic assessment
200
The structure of the language and the rules that govern this structure
What is syntax
300
The ability to flow back and forth from one dialect to another.
What is codeswitching
300
Affective filter
What is the emotional response to a certain situation that may impact language learning and acquisition
300
Etic perspective
What is an outside perspective
300
Formative assessment
What is an evaluation that is applied during a task so that it can be used to improve student performance?
300
The study of the meaning units of a language
What is morphology
400
Another term for AAVE
What is Ebonics or BVE
400
LAD
What is the Language Acquisition Device from Chomsky's innatist theory.
400
Cultural hegemony
What happens when the dominant subgroup assumes its way of being is the standard
400
Norm-referenced
What is evaluation that compares a student’s test performance to that of other students, with results usually reported in percentile rankings
400
Pragmatics
What is the ability to use language appropriately across a range of functions and social situations
500
The supreme court case that determined AAVE to be a language of instruction for Standard English development
What was Martin Luther King Jr. vs. Ann Arbor School Board
500
Functionalism
What is the theory explaining how the acquisition of form and meaning are related
500
Assimilation
What is the act of losing and replacing one’s cultural traits with that of a dominant group
500
Test reliability
What is the term used to describe if a test is designed so that if students take the same test a number of times, the students will attain similar scores each time
500
Morphemes
What is the smallest unit of language that contains semantic meaning