NYSTCE ESOL CST (116) exam questions with answers

NYSTCE ESOL CST (116) exam questions |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




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Intonation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the way the voice
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rises and falls in speech
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morpheme - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the smallest unit of
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meaning in a language |\ |\ |\




Abraham Maslow - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔developed
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hierarchy of needs, which theorized to be the unconscious
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desires that motivate people
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subordinating conjunction - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔joins |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



a dependent clause to an independent clause to which it
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is related
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voiceless sounds - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔sounds made
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without vibrating the vocal cords
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Howard Gardner - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔created the
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theory of multiple intelligences; proposed that using a
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person's area of giftedness to demonstrate intellect will
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help learners achieve their potential
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,independent (or main) clause - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



clause that can stand alone as it's own sequence
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one-word stage - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔stage of
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language acquisition; characterized by a child's use of a
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single word to convey a full meaning
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humor stage - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔stage of
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acculturation; when students start to come to terms with |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



their circumstances and move toward acceptance of their
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new culture
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SIFE - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Students with Interrupted
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Formal Education |\




labial consonant sound - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔sound
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produced by the top and bottom lips coming together (m)
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gerund phrase - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔phrase that
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begins with a gerund (verbs that end in -ing and act as
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nouns)


connotation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the emotional |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



association of a word |\ |\ |\

,helping verb - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔verb that indicates
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tense (when the action occurred)
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Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



✔✔an individually administered assessment that
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measures cognitive aspects of language proficiency in the
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form of vocabulary usage, verbal analogies, and letter-
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word identification
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Audio-Lingual Method (ALM) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔an |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



oral-based approach to language instruction developed
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by linguists and behavior psychologists; teaches the
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target language through repetition
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phonetics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the study of the|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



production of sounds in speech |\ |\ |\ |\




silent way - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔teaching method
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based on the idea that language learning should be much
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like problem-solving and discovery learning; teachers are
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as silent as possible during lessons in order to promote
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student participation and experimentation and to
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concentrate on learning over teaching |\ |\ |\ |\

, dependent (or subordinate) clause - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



✔✔a clause that cannot stand alone as its own sentence
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inferential item - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a piece of |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



information that requires the test taker to read between |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



the lines in order to determine what an author is implying
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communicative competence - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



ability to speak a language both appropriately in a social
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context as well as correctly in terms of rules and structure
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two-word stage - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔stage of |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



language acquisition; children begin to learn words and
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use word combinations
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early stage of literacy development - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔characterized by the learner's use of multiple |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



strategies to predict and understand words |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




intermediate fluency - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔fourth |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



stage of second-language acquisition; learners have
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acquired a vocabulary of about 6,000 words and are able
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to speak in more complex sentences and correct many of
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their own errors|\ |\