English Language Learning Terms
English Teaching and Methods
Language Acquisition and Theories
Language Acquisition and Theories II
Other Terms
100
These are students who are non-native English-speakers
What is an English Language Learner (ELL)
100
Numerous factors, such as teachers' past academic experiences, educational training, and their student body may affect how these develop
What are teacher attitudes?
100
Above all else, this is the factor which determines how teachers teach
What is a teacher's understanding of how people learn
100
This person claims that we need to decide on what language is before we can consider how people acquire them
Who is Chomsky
100
The measure of a student's knowledge of English
What is 'English Language Proficiency'
200
Legislation passed in 2002 which changed the way teachers are told to teach, students are taught, and which assessments they're given
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
200
Learning must take place here
What is the 'Zone of Proximal Development'
200
The way children begin to develop their language capabilities
What is babbling
200
Exclusive use of one language as taught by teachers trained in methods appropriate for teaching non-native English speakers
What is 'Structured English Immersion'
300
This is a preferable term when referring to an ELL
What is an Emergent Bilingual
300
Some teachers come up with these to explain why their minority students are not performing well
What are excuses
300
This person emphasized the role of social experiences on the learner
Who is Lev Vygotsky
300
Fewer people develop this than do a first language
What is a second language
300
When students are taken out of mainstream classes
What are 'Pullout' programs
400
This is an ELL whose spent less than 5 years in the USA
What is a 'recent arrival'
400
What it's called when people don't expect much of their minority students
What is the soft bigotry of low expectations
400
These people expand on Vygosky's view and say that the individual learner's efforts also plays a role
Who are the Goodmans?
400
This person based his research on Noam Chomsky's linguistic research
Who is Stephen Krashen
400
Systems which prepare students to transition into all-English classes within three years [of beginning school]
What is 'Early-Exit' Bilingual Education
500
Someone who has spent more than 7 years in the USA
What is a 'long-term' English learner
500
Implementing practices which are aligned with the teacher's beliefs
What is 'Principled Teaching'
500
Direct instruction, modeling, and scaffolding are examples of
What is mediation
500
Krashen's breakdown of how people develop language skills in formal and informal settings
What is 'Acquisition/Learning'?
500
Books and other resources which reference a student's own culture and make it easier for them to relate and learn the material
What are 'Culturally Relevant' texts?
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