TESOL UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE RESOURCE
●● Generation 1.5
Answer: kids born elsewhere but heavily socialized in the us
●● Plyler v Doe
Answer: states can't deny education for illegal immigrants amendment
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●● ELL
Answer: English Language Learner
●● CALP
Answer: (Cognitive academic language proficiency) the language ability
needed for learning academic skills
●● Inflectional
Answer: adds es, s, ed, ing, er does not change the meaning of the word
●● Idiom
, Answer: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the
meanings of the words that make it up- Don't cry over spiled milk
●● Partial Immersion
Answer: half of the day spent learning L2
●● Nonverbal communication
Answer: communication using body movements, gestures, and facial
expressions rather than speech
●● Intonation
Answer: rise and fall of the voice pitch
●● Free morpheme
Answer: A morpheme that can stand alone as a word.
●● Minimal pairs
Answer: A pair of words that differ by only a single sound and are
recognized by speakers as different words. i.e. bat/cat or hare/dare
●● Lexical ambiguity
Answer: A situation in which a word has two or more meanings.
Example: pen-writing instrument pen- a place where pigs live
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE RESOURCE
●● Generation 1.5
Answer: kids born elsewhere but heavily socialized in the us
●● Plyler v Doe
Answer: states can't deny education for illegal immigrants amendment
14
●● ELL
Answer: English Language Learner
●● CALP
Answer: (Cognitive academic language proficiency) the language ability
needed for learning academic skills
●● Inflectional
Answer: adds es, s, ed, ing, er does not change the meaning of the word
●● Idiom
, Answer: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the
meanings of the words that make it up- Don't cry over spiled milk
●● Partial Immersion
Answer: half of the day spent learning L2
●● Nonverbal communication
Answer: communication using body movements, gestures, and facial
expressions rather than speech
●● Intonation
Answer: rise and fall of the voice pitch
●● Free morpheme
Answer: A morpheme that can stand alone as a word.
●● Minimal pairs
Answer: A pair of words that differ by only a single sound and are
recognized by speakers as different words. i.e. bat/cat or hare/dare
●● Lexical ambiguity
Answer: A situation in which a word has two or more meanings.
Example: pen-writing instrument pen- a place where pigs live