LINGUISTICS & THE LAW
LINGUISPEAK
APPROACHES
ELL OVERLAY
100
Despite what you hear, nearly 80% of language-minority students were born in this country.
What is the United States?
100
ELL stands for this.
What is English Language Learner?
100
This is an educational program that involves the use of two languages of instruction at some point in a student’s school career.
What is Bilingual Education?
100
One of the two receptive language skills or modalities.
What is listening? (or reading?)
200
Plyler vs Doe is so remarkable because in 1982 it guaranteed this to all children in the U.S., native or foreign-born, legal or undocumented.
What is an education?
200
LEP is no longer popular because the L stands for this, which implies a deficiency, instead of acknowledging a progressive process.
What is limited?
200
Krashen describes the Audio-Lingualism approach, in which students do this before they mimic the speech of their second language.
What is listen to a dialogue?
200
One of the two productive skills or modalities.
What is speaking? (or writing?)
300
This controversial high-stakes testing educational policy, still in effect today, basically repealed the Bilingual Education Act and replaced the Bilingual Ed office with OELA, the office of English Language Acquisition.
What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?
300
Because it implies that students only have two languages, when many have three or more, this term is not always an accurate term—even though it is often used to describe ELLs.
What is bilingual?
300
In SEI, the English language learners “sink or swim” together in learning English--hence, the I, which stands for this.
What is immersion?
300
In the PA- ELPS (Language Proficiency Standards), there are 5 levels into which all ELLs are divided. The most advanced one is called “Bridging” because it bridges to this.
What is the anchor, or the regular PA standard?
400
In this 1974 landmark case, the civil rights of Chinese speaking students were protected by the Supreme Court.
What is Lau vs Nichols?
400
This theory maintains that we all have a little inner voice that regulates our second language production and fluency.
What is the Monitor Hypothesis?
400
TPR is a technique similar to “Simon Says” in which students listen and respond to commands in a second language, and it stands for this.
What is Total Physical Response?
400
Of all five levels, this one is the level most likely to use graphics and visuals as tools to help English Language Learners.
What is Entering? (or the first level)?
500
This 1967 legislation, signed under President Lyndon Johnson, provided financial incentives to school districts to help English Language Learners.
What is the Bilingual Education Act of 1967?
500
BICS-–that all-important part of the language for our ELLS--stands for this.
What is Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills?
500
In this technique, described by Krashen, the teacher creates a low-stress atmosphere with music and lights so that second language students will feel relaxed enough to let their second language emerge.
What is Suggestopedia?
500
In our instruction to ELLs, we will most likely concentrate on CALP, which stands for this.
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency?