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Linguistics
Academic and Social Language
Language Acquisition & Learning Theories
Everything But the Kitchen Sink
ELL Lingo
100
The study of the sound system of a language.
What is phonology?
100
It takes 5-7 years to be proficient in this type of language.
What is academic language (or CALP)?
100
The theory that involves an internal grammatical editor that activates as students learn the formal structure and requirements of a language.
What is Monitor Hypothesis?
100
The game "Simon Says" would be an activity categorized by Cummins to be this level of difficulty accompanied by this amount of suport: (cognitively demanding/undemanding AND contest embedded/reduced).
What is cognitively undemanding and context embedded?
100
To provide instructional support so that the student can be academically successful; one student may require more support than another student.
What is scaffolding?
200
The study of how people use language within a certain context.
What is pragmatics?
200
The letter I in the acronym B.I.C.S. stands for this.
What is Interpersonal?
200
The theory that involves exposing students to language that is slightly more complex than their current level of understanding.
What is the Input or i + 1 Hypothesis?
200
A person who has this type of competence has knowledge and ability to use language appropriately depending on the setting and person he/she is talking to.
What is communicative competence?
200
It is normal when a bilingual student interjects a word from his/her home language when speaking English because they don't know the English equivalent.
What is code-switching?
300
An example of this study of language includes changing verb tense such as "go" and "went"
What is morphology?
300
The letters in the acronym C.A.L.P stand for this.
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency?
300
The Russian Psychologist believed social interaction was important to learning and created the Zone of Proximal Development.
Who is Vygotsky?
300
This stage of L2 acquisition can involve the silent period in which children do not produce oral communication.
What is the preproduction stage?
300
This type of transfer happens when the student transfers the native language into English, but the language rule or skill does not apply correctly.
What is negative transfer?
400
An idiom is an example within this study of language.
What is semantics?
400
This form is given to all students to assess if they qualify for English language services.
What is a Home Language Survey?
400
The learning theory of the Zone of Proximal Development has been compared to and is similar to this language acquisition theory by Krashen.
What is the Input or i + 1 Hypothesis?
400
This is a collection of prior experiences, knowledge, and skills a person has cumulatively gained.
What is schema?
400
This lawsuit filed in 1974 by a group of Chinese parents in San Francisco fought for equitable opportunities to learn in the classroom.
What is Lau v. Nichols?
500
"Yo Rev., what's up?" is not an appropriate way to address the church pastor. This is an example of a person not changing his/her formality of discourse based on context. He/she does not know this study of linguistics.
What is pragmatics?
500
Mrs. Smith ensures that all of her students have the opportunity to succeed by modifying activities, paraphrasing academic language, and scaffolding the students based on their individual needs. It is obvious she is practicing this instructional strategy.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
500
In relation to this hypothesis, the Silent Period is a normal occurrence in ELLs when they are not ready to produce oral language due to stress in the classroom.
What is the Affective Filter Hypothesis?
500
This quadrant combination would include the following math activity: "After learning about equivalent fractions, the students will follow a recipe card to bake cookies according to the directions." (cognitively demanding/undemanding and context embedded/reduced. *Justify your answer.
What is cognitively demanding, context embedded?
500
Commands that check for comprehension through body movement and not talking.
What is TPR?