ESL Levels
Student spends up to one year without speaking
What is the "Silent Period"?
smallest unit of sound
What is a phoneme?
Type of instruction focusing on teaching content,while tailoring the instruction to meet the needs of second language learners.
What is CBI? Content-Based Instruction
Meeting of the teacher, parent, and administrator to discuss the progress, exit, and entrance of a student into the special program
What is an LPAC?
Refers to the theory that errors in the target language could become permanent or at the very least resistant to change
What is fossilization?
Student uses simple sentence structures and present tense.His pronunciation is generally understood by peers.
What is intermediate?
Smallest unit of meaning
What is a morpheme?
Language approach that assumes listening comprehension is the basis of all language ability and focuses on students' listening abilities until they can speak.
What is TPR? Total Physical Response
Basic interpersonal communication skills
What is BICS?
A second language acquisition theory based on Chomsky's theory of language universals and marked features.
What is the Universal Grammar Theory?
Student has academic knowledge and write clearly
What is advanced?
Throws Pedro the ball.
Pedro throws ball.
What is syntax?
An approach to teaching of reading in which students read about their own experiences recorded in their own language. Students dictate to the teacher what they want to write.
What is the language experience approach?
Sheltered instruction observation protocol
What is SIOP?
There are two levels of language: BICS and CALP/It takes two years for BICS and 5-7 for CALP
What is the "ice berg" theory?
Reads grade level texts with difficulty; needs visual support, pre-taught vocabulary
What is an intermediate?
Sander, level, mitre box, drill press, nail punch
What is a carpenter?
What is language of a particular discipline or profession?
What is a lexicon?
Approach where English learners are grouped together so that they do not have to compete with English speakers while they are supported in their development of academic skills and competence in academic English.
What is the Sheltered English approach?
The amount of progress a school or school district must make each year reaching target objectives
What is AYP?
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are an integrated process not a sequential process.
What is the integrated theory of language acquisition?
Writes about grade level topics with second language support;has a grasp of basic English usage and some understanding of complex usage
Who is an advanced learner?
Proper use of language in a particular situation .
What is pragmatics?
Anna Chamot's widely used method for teaching language through content...emphasizing cognitive, metacognitive skills
What is CALLA Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach?
A label for students who are non-native speakers of English and are in the process of attaining proficiency in English
What is an ELL?
One of these is NOT part of Krashen's Five Hypotheses Model
1. Monitor theory 2.Acquisition Hypothesis 3. Affective filter 4 Natural Order Hypothesis 5. Sequential language study
What is Sequential language study?