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KEY ELEMENTS
RATIONALE
INFORMAL ASSESSMENT
TYPE OF ASSESSMENT
LEFT OVERS
100
Which element of language refers to the sound system of a language
Phonology
100
Name two rationales for assessing native language proficiency of CLD students whose first language is not English.
• Insight into understanding issues related to SLA • Insight into student achievement • Teachers can plan for academic challenge and support their students • Considering primary language skills allows the teacher to have a better idea of how to differentiate instruction in the classroom
100
A CLD student might shout out answers while the teacher is presenting a lesson/new concept. What factor prompts a child to behave this way?
Cultural norms
100
What is SOLOM?
Student Oral Language Observation Matrix
100
According to Herrera, what are the four issues to be considered during the language proficiency assessment?
• Identification – determines accommodations, modifications and additional support • Placement – to have the maximum access to curriculum • Monitoring – informal and formal assessments of student progress • Exit – time of exit affect the adequate yearly progress
200
Which element of language involves the way in which context influences the interpretation of an utterance?
Pragmatics
200
How do CLD students make language and knowledge transfers from L1 to L2?
Draw on their common underlying proficiency of L1
200
Name two critical ways to gain insight on a student’s performance.
• Home language surveys • Parent interviews
200
True/False. Language acquisition rubrics may not be as informative for initial placement decisions as they are for monitoring ongoing growth and readiness for reclassification.
True. The student's familiarity with the teacher and the setting play important roles in both accurate and revealing observations.
200
What is the difference between a person’s language competence and language performance?
Competence is what a person knows or can do while performance is how this knowledge is used in a particular circumstance.
300
Which element of language refers to the rules and patterns for changing words in order to alter meaning?
Morphology
300
What must CLD students acquire in the academic setting?
CALP
300
Name three of the academic skills vital to a student’s academic success.
• Inquiry • Classification • Describing • Supporting one’s opinion • Evaluation • Comparing • Contrasting • Explaining • Analyzing • Inferring • Persuading • Synthesizing
300
What are narrative assessments?
The ability to use story telling structures for the purpose of literacy development which helps the student better understand both written passages and oral presented material.
300
What are the stages of second language acquisition?
• Preproduction • Early Production • Speech Emergence • Intermediate Fluency • Advance Fluency
400
What is the difference between syntax and semantics?
Syntax is the element of language referring to the appropriate language word order while semantics is the element of language that involves the meanings of words, phrases, and sentences.
400
What is one main reason why English proficiency is assessed?
Appropriate placement for student to benefit from content area in instruction
400
Should a student be allowed to use their native tongue to demonstrate content area knowledge? Why or why not?
Yes, this is especially true for newcomers because the removal of the language barrier allows the teacher to determine if the student understands the content.
400
What are some potential problems with story retelling as a means of informally assessing language proficiency of CLD LEP students?
Student may be affected by a variety of complicated factors other than linguistic skills like auditory memory, cultural norms and task familiarity which would only confound the ability to perform such an expressive task.
400
Why have some states developed their own formal standardized assessments of English Language Proficiency?
To create a uniform assessment criteria and to ensure the ability to compare results across districts
500
What are the five main elements of language?
• Syntax • Morphology • Phonology • Semantics • Pragmatics
500
Why is the assessment of L1 important in understanding issues related to L2?
Allows educators to determine how much knowledge child has of the L1 (i.e. the more the child can read in L1, the greater success of reading in L2) which is directly related to the L2
500
True/False. For authentic listening skills assessment, teachers require CLD students to demonstrate listening skills in ways that only involve spoken language.
False, authentic listening skills arise from situations where the student’s ability to perform a task requires the him/her to effectively integrate listening and clarification strategies.
500
In a fixed ratio cloze assessment, every_______ word is deleted throughout the passage.
Nth
500
Name three formal standardized assessments of language proficiency.
• Preschool Language Assessment Scale (Pre-LAS 2000) • Language Assessment Scale-Oral (LAS-O) • Language Assessment Scale-Reading/Writing (LAS-R/W) • IDEA Proficiency Test (IPT) • Woodcock-Munoz Language Survey Revised (WMLS-R) • Maculaitis Assessment of Competencies II (MAC II) • Stanford English Language Proficiency (SELP) assessment