ESOL GACE REVIEW TIPS ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔NCLB - ✔✔evaluates school data by looking at disaggregated data
✔✔Immersion Education Model - ✔✔Instruction in non-native language
✔✔Grammar Based ELL Pull-Out - ✔✔Teaches about language
✔✔Communication Based ELL Pull-Out - ✔✔Teaches using language in meaningful
context
✔✔Content Based ELL Pull-Out - ✔✔Teaches in English to develop skills to study
grade level content in English
✔✔Structured English Immersion - ✔✔Pulled out or structured instruction in English (no
L1 support)
✔✔Submersion with Primary Language Support - ✔✔Bilingual teacher supports grade
level ELLS with small groups tutored in primary language
✔✔Pull Out Model Outside Academic Block - ✔✔Students taken out of non-academic
classes for small group language
✔✔Push In Model within Academic Block - ✔✔Students remain in general education
with language assistance from an ESOL teacher
✔✔Cluster Center - ✔✔Students grouped for intensive language instruction
✔✔Resource Center/Lab - ✔✔Language assistance in group setting with multi-media
materials
, ✔✔Scheduled Class Period - ✔✔Middle and high receive language assistance or
content instruction in class of ELL only
✔✔CBI - ✔✔Content Based Instruction
✔✔Content Based Instruction - ✔✔integrates L2 content with instruction (students learn
L2 through meaningful interaction with grade level content)
✔✔TESOL Standards - ✔✔1) Use English in class, 2) Use English to obtain, process,
construct and provide subject matter information, 3) Use learning strategies to apply
academic knowledge
✔✔Total Physical Response - ✔✔Teacher speaks command and student responds
physically
✔✔The Natural Approach - ✔✔Exposes new vocabulary in meaningful context
(Extended listening, colorful pictures, active involvement, leads to acquisition, rather
than learning
✔✔Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach - ✔✔Actual grade level
determines content, gradually acquire language in subject area
✔✔CALLA - ✔✔Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach
✔✔Whole Language Approach - ✔✔Develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading
to increase linguistic, cognitive, and literacy skills (uses Language Experience
Approach)
✔✔Language Experience Approach - ✔✔Children dictate their own stories and read
until grasped
✔✔Scaffolding - ✔✔demonstrating, guiding and teaching in step-by-step process
✔✔5 Levels of Scaffolding - ✔✔1) Modeling, 2) Sharing, 3) Interacting, 4) Guiding, 5)
Independence
✔✔Norm-Referenced Tests - ✔✔Results based on group performance (the norm); may
be compared using mean and standard derivations or on actual group
✔✔Criterion-referenced Tests - ✔✔Test score is based on mastery of course content
✔✔Language Placement Tests - ✔✔Designed to place a student in a specific program
SET A+
✔✔NCLB - ✔✔evaluates school data by looking at disaggregated data
✔✔Immersion Education Model - ✔✔Instruction in non-native language
✔✔Grammar Based ELL Pull-Out - ✔✔Teaches about language
✔✔Communication Based ELL Pull-Out - ✔✔Teaches using language in meaningful
context
✔✔Content Based ELL Pull-Out - ✔✔Teaches in English to develop skills to study
grade level content in English
✔✔Structured English Immersion - ✔✔Pulled out or structured instruction in English (no
L1 support)
✔✔Submersion with Primary Language Support - ✔✔Bilingual teacher supports grade
level ELLS with small groups tutored in primary language
✔✔Pull Out Model Outside Academic Block - ✔✔Students taken out of non-academic
classes for small group language
✔✔Push In Model within Academic Block - ✔✔Students remain in general education
with language assistance from an ESOL teacher
✔✔Cluster Center - ✔✔Students grouped for intensive language instruction
✔✔Resource Center/Lab - ✔✔Language assistance in group setting with multi-media
materials
, ✔✔Scheduled Class Period - ✔✔Middle and high receive language assistance or
content instruction in class of ELL only
✔✔CBI - ✔✔Content Based Instruction
✔✔Content Based Instruction - ✔✔integrates L2 content with instruction (students learn
L2 through meaningful interaction with grade level content)
✔✔TESOL Standards - ✔✔1) Use English in class, 2) Use English to obtain, process,
construct and provide subject matter information, 3) Use learning strategies to apply
academic knowledge
✔✔Total Physical Response - ✔✔Teacher speaks command and student responds
physically
✔✔The Natural Approach - ✔✔Exposes new vocabulary in meaningful context
(Extended listening, colorful pictures, active involvement, leads to acquisition, rather
than learning
✔✔Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach - ✔✔Actual grade level
determines content, gradually acquire language in subject area
✔✔CALLA - ✔✔Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach
✔✔Whole Language Approach - ✔✔Develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading
to increase linguistic, cognitive, and literacy skills (uses Language Experience
Approach)
✔✔Language Experience Approach - ✔✔Children dictate their own stories and read
until grasped
✔✔Scaffolding - ✔✔demonstrating, guiding and teaching in step-by-step process
✔✔5 Levels of Scaffolding - ✔✔1) Modeling, 2) Sharing, 3) Interacting, 4) Guiding, 5)
Independence
✔✔Norm-Referenced Tests - ✔✔Results based on group performance (the norm); may
be compared using mean and standard derivations or on actual group
✔✔Criterion-referenced Tests - ✔✔Test score is based on mastery of course content
✔✔Language Placement Tests - ✔✔Designed to place a student in a specific program
