The ELPS
These are the four language domains
What are listening, speaking, reading, writing
These two types of objectives should be written in kid friendly terms.
What are Content & Language Objectives
The name given to the area of the brain that houses language.
CUP or CULP
These are the two language systems.
What are BICS and CALP
Mixed ability classrooms, where a wide range of cognitive and linguistic levels are present, are best supported by using this to meet students' needs.
What is differentiated instruction?
This federally mandated assessment tests language proficiency levels each Spring in grades K-12.
What is TELPAS (Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System)?
ESL programs address these three needs of English Learners.
What is affective, linguistic, and cognitive.
These are the two systems of language.
What are BICS and CALPS.
ALSO
What is acquisition and learning.
Making a message understandable for students is referred to as these (two words).
What is comprehensible input
This is a strategy that supports the learning process and mastery through gradual release.
What is scaffolding?
This guide allows teachers to align student names according to individual language ratings to inform instruction.
What is the LIAG (Linguistic Instructional Alignment Guide)?
ESL students are provided intensive instruction to develop proficiency in the English language in the these areas.
What is listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
These must be learned simultaneously. Two are receptive, two are expressive.
What are listening, speaking, reading, and writing
It takes an English Learner about 7-10 years for this to happen, provided they receive linguistically aligned instruction.
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)
This is the main function of Sheltered Instruction.
The English Language Proficiency Standards provide focused, intensive instruction for these grades levels.
What are grades 3-12.
Content & Language objectives must always be written in this manner to provide for evaluation.
What is measurable
Linguistic features and academic vocabulary must be taught in this manner.
What is explicitly
Russian theorist Lev Vygotsky proposed this theory that calls for scaffolding in learning.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD+1)
A student that says, "My friend, which I met at college, comes from San Marcos, who is located near San Antonio, Texas" is exhibiting a need for further instruction in which are of grammar?
What are relative pronouns
The English Language Proficiency Standards provide for this through content-based instruction.
What is the accelerated learning of English.
In order for ESL students to have access to content and core curriculum, instruction requires this accommodation.
What is linguistic accommodation
When second language learners use their L1 to learn their L2, this happens.
What is transference
The highest cognitive process a student can attain where thinking is concerned
What is meta-cognition
"It was a trip very long" and "My brother found a dog little" are both patterns of L1 interference in which language structure?
Choose from: phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax
What is syntax