Classroom Practice for ELs
Language Acquisition Theory
Assessing English Learners
Developing Language Proficiencies
All Things Considered...
100
These are the four areas of literacy tested by the California English Language Development Test (CELDT).
What is reading, writing, listening and speaking?
100
This theory states that language is inherent to the speaker from birth.
What is Innatist?
100
Variations from print made during oral reading.
What is a miscue?
100
These terms are a common reference for "Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills" and "Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency".
What are BICS and CALPS?
100
Story mapping, shared reading with big books and directed listening-thinking activities are all appropriate activities for this level of readers.
What is beginning level?
200
Strategies for ELs such as use of non-verbal cues, modified language, using solid routines and providing graphic organizers are all examples of this.
What is scaffolding or sheltered instruction?
200
This theory uses modeling as a primary learning tool.
What is Behaviorist?
200
Oral language development is often assessed in California schools by this assessment tool.
What is the Student Oral Language Observation Matrix (SOLOM).
200
When teaching, the teacher accesses this, the experiences that EL students have had before.
What is prior knowledge?
200
The law says that all LEP students must receive 30-45 minutes of this type of daily instruction until they are formally redesignated.
What is English Language Development?
300
This is when a teacher arranges buddies or groups to specifically assist ELL students.
What is intentional grouping?
300
The two components that the Interactionist Theory takes into consideration.
What is nature and nurture?
300
An assessment procedure that is NOT useful for testing content area knowledge.
What is standardized testing?
300
Simon says is an example of this teaching technique.
What is Total Physical Response?
300
Limited English Proficient students (LEP) can be redesignated to this when they score a 5 on the CELDT and are performing similarly in school to a native English speaker.
What is "Fluent English Proficient" (FEP)
400
In addition to state academic content standards, this type of standards needs to be included in every ELD lesson.
What is an "English Language Development" standard?
400
Within this theory, the interaction between child and adult is very important to language development.
What is Interactionist?
400
A reading assessment that can be done one-on-one during regular classroom instruction with beginning readers still learning to decode and read fluently.
What is a running record?
400
Content instruction should utilize real life things called this.
What is realia?
400
Your teaching credential will automatically authorize you to work with English Language Learners because this certification is embedded in your California credential.
What is the Cross-cultural Language and Academic Development (CLAD) certification
500
Research says that developing this, especially for English Learners, gives them the greatest chance of academic success as well as future employment.
What is vocabulary development?
500
This famous theorist developed 5 hypotheses about second language acquisition rooted in the Innatist tradition, and includes 1) the acquisition-learning hypothesis, 2) the monitor hypothesis, 3) the natural order hypothesis, 4) the input hypothesis, and 5) the affective filter hypothesis.
Who is Stephen Krashen?
500
This type of meaningful assessment evaluates students while they perform what they have learned in a real or simulated setting, things that are relevant and important to their lives.
What is authentic assessment?
500
This is a key element of the "input hypothesis", that the input language must not only be understandable, but must also contain grammatical structures that are just a bit beyond the acquirer's current level of second language development.
What is comprehensible input?
500
Interactions with a text aimed at experiencing or feeling.
What are aesthetic interactions with the text?