ELL Levels
Perspective on Failure
What Influences How Teachers Teach?
How Do People Learn and How Do they Acquire Language?
How Do People Learn and How Do They Acquire Language Part 2
100
A student who has recently arrived in the United States and has adequate schooling in Native Country.
What is Newly Arrived with Adequate Schooling
100
Certain groups fail to do well because they are genetically inferior (single cause) not because of any factors in the environment (context free).
What is Genetic Inferiority
100
This group includes legal mandates.
What is Legislative Requirements.
100
Who developed the Zone of Proximal of Development?
What is Vygotsky
100
What is the most basic function?
What is the Referential Function
200
A student who has recently arrived to United States and has limited/interrupted schooling in native country.
What is Newly Arrived with Limited Formal Schooling
200
Certain cultural groups fail to do well because their culture is seen as deficient (single cause) not because of any factors in the environment (context free).
What is Cultural Deficit
200
What influence causes teachers to teach as they were taught?
What is past academic experiences.
200
Learning what a car is, is what type of concept?
What is Spontaneous Concept
200
What type of function involves showing our attitude and what we are saying?
What is the Expressive Function
300
Typically in the 6th-12th grade, limited literacy in native language and English. Struggles with content classes.
What is Long Term English Learner
300
Certain cultures fail to achieve because their culture is different from mainstream culture (single cause) not because of any factors in the environment (context free).
What is Cultural Mismatch
300
What causes teachers to teach as others teach or as they are required to teach?
What is Colleagues/Administrators
300
The idea of transportation is what type of concept?
What is scientific concept.
300
What function allows for us to vary our language for social purposes?
What is the Integrative Function.
400
Recent arrival in grades K-1, parents with low levels of education, parents struggling financially/socially.
What is Potential Long-Term English Learner.
400
Certain groups fail to achieve because of the complex interaction of many factors including background experiences, social factors, and school setting (multiple cause and context specific).
What is Contextual Interaction
400
What involves implementing practices consistent with our beliefs about language, learning, teaching and curriculum?
What is Principled Teaching.
400
What type of instruction tells the students how or what to do or gives students information to learn then apply?
What is Direct Instruction.
400
What type of competence allows us to get and give information about the world?
What is Grammatical Competence.
500
What are the two types of Long Term English Language Learners
What is Vaiven Students and Incosistent/Subtractive Schooling LTELLS
500
What is often confused when attributing failure or success to single cause?
What is cause and correlation.
500
What allows students in schools that do not meet state standards in terms of student test performance for more than two years to transfer or receive additional services?
What is NCLB..
500
What type of Mediation allows the students to follow the model provided to produce something similar?
What is Modeling.
500
What type of competence is defined as knowing what to say to whom, when, and what circumstances?
What is Communicative Competence.
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