Acronyms
Second Language Acquisition
Culture
Law
Theories
100
LEP
What is limited English proficient (or proficiency)?
100
The period of time during which a newcomer is unable or unwilling to speak.
What is the silent period.
100
A well-founded fear of persecution is what brought this to the US.
What is a refugee?
100
This decision stated that "separate but equal" is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
100
This theory attempts to explain the emotional variables associated with the success or failure of acquiring a second language.
What is the affective filter?
200
CUP and SUP
What are Common Underlying Proficiency and Separate Underlying Proficiency?
200
The time it typically takes for a student to develop CALP.
What is what is 5-7 years with literacy in L1? What is 7 to 12 + years with lack of literacy in L1?
200
The most common L1 of second language learners in the US is this.
What is Spanish?
200
Federal case of Chinese students in San Francisco that said providing students with the same curriculum, books, facilities, etc. is not sufficient.
What is Lau v. Nichols?
200
Whether referring to L1 or L2, this hypothesis states that "the acquisition of grammatical structures proceeds in a predictable sequence."
What is the natural order hypothesis?
300
CLD
What is Culturally and/or Linguistically Diverse?
300
The productive domains of English
What are speaking and writing?
300
These six states are home to the majority of immigrants in the US.
What are TX, CA, NY, NJ, IL, and FL?
300
This decision is the reason that LEAs cannot ask for proof of citizenship or residency when enrolling children.
What is Plyer v. Doe?
300
Cognitively demanding and cognitively undemanding, context embedded and context reduced describe the labels for what theory?
What is Cummins' Quadrants?
400
PEPSI, Ahhh
What are preproduction, early production, speech emergence, intermediate fluency and advanced fluency?
400
During this stage of language acquisition, which occurs with from 6 months to 1 year of language exposure, the student has limited comprehension, produces one- or two-word responses, participates using key words and familiar phrases, and uses present-tense verbs
What is Early Production?
400
Space and proxemics, gender roles, and concepts of time are examples of this.
What is deep culture?
400
This document explains the Pennsylvania law pertaining to the education of ELLs.
What is the BEC?
400
Conscious vs. unconscious, time bound vs. indefinite, and formal instruction vs. informal learning are all elements of this theory.
What is Krashen's learning-acquisition hypothesis?
500
HLS
What is home language survey?
500
Using visuals, appropriate pacing of speech, gestures, repetition, cognates, and graphic organizers are all examples of this.
What is comprehensible input? What are ways of making content comprehensible?
500
The exchange of cultural features as a result of a continuous firsthand contact between different cultural groups, with both groups remaining intact is this.
What is acculturation?
500
Set the standard for the courts in examining programs for LEP students.
What is Castaneda v. Pickard?
500
This theory of Cummins is illustrated with an iceberg.
What is the CUP/SUP theory?
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