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Factors
Krashen
Cummins
Language Levels
English Learners
100
Knowledge of a students background such as name, age and first language proficiency.
What is a psychological factor that influences the instruction of English learners
100
The gradual process of learning a language that is based on receiving and understanding messages.
What is language acquisition?
100
Theory that states that languages reside in separate areas of the brain.
What is separate underlying proficiency?
100
Use of expanded vocabulary by English learners.
What is early advanced proficiency?
100
Form filled out by parents upon enrollment of their child that requests information about language use in the home.
What is the home language survey?
200
Student learning styles and quality of teaching
What is a cognitive factor associated with the teaching of English learners?
200
Learning about a language
What is language learning?
200
Theory that states that languages reside in a common area of the brain.
What is common underlying proficiency?
200
No verbal production to good comprehension of highly contextualized information
What is beginning proficiency?
200
State mandated language assessment for English learners.
What is the CELDT?
300
Self-esteem and a student's attitude
What are social emotional factors to consider when teaching English learners?
300
Hypothesis that states that instruction needs to include comprehensible input for maximum student understanding.
What is the input hypothesis?
300
Playground or social language used by second language learners.
What is BICS?
300
Responds to and uses figurative language and idiomatiac expressions appropriately.
What is advanced proficiency?
300
Category used to label an English learner.
What is EL?
400
Family experience: Home culture/school culture
What is are sociocultural factors to consider when teaching English learners?
400
Hypothesis that states that instruction needs to occur in an low anxiety environment.
What is the affective filter hypothesis?
400
Academic language used by English learners.
What is CALP?
400
Engages in conversation with some errors in speech.
What is intermediate fluency?
400
Category used to label a student who initially passes the CELDT test.
What is iFEP?
500
Psychological and Sociocultural Factors that influence instruction
What are the two main factors that influence instruction of English learners?
500
Hypothesis that states that there is a natural order to the acquisition of a language.
What is the natural order hypothesis?
500
Hypothesis that states that a certain level of first language literacy is necessary in order to add second language literacy.
What is Threshold hypothesis?
500
Limited proficiency to communicate ideas.
What is early intermediate fluency?
500
Category used to label a student who has been redesignated from English learner to fluent English proficient.
What is FEP?