TEFL CERTIFICATION LANGUAGE
TEACHING STRATEGIES COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS STUDY
GUIDE
●● Number of phonemes in English
Answer: 42-44
●● Classifications of consonant phonemes
Answer: Place of Articulation, Manner of Articulation, Voiced or
Unvoiced
●● Classifications of vowel phonemes
Answer: Tongue Position, Lip position
●● Phonological awareness
Answer: Ability to detect, identify, and manipulate the various parts of
the spoken language: words, syllables, onsets, rimes, and phonemes
●● Syllable
Answer: A word or part of a word that is pronounced as a unit and
contains one vowel sound.
,●● Parts of a syllable
Answer: onset and rime. The onset is that part before the vowel, the rime
is the vowel and everything after.
●● Phonogram
Answer: nonlinguistic term for rime (rime is the vowel and everything
after within the same syllable)
●● Lau vs. Nichols
Answer: Decided that the civil rights of students were being violated
when the school did not help them acquire the language of instruction
●● Plessy vs. Ferguson
Answer: (1896) The Court ruled that segregation was not discriminatory
(did not violate black civil rights under the Fourteenth Amendemnt)
provide that blacks received accommodations equal to those of whites.
●● Meyers vs. Nebraska
Answer: U.S. Supreme Court decision protecting the right of language
minority communities to offer private language classes
●● Brown vs. Board
, Answer: 1954- court decision that declared state laws segregating
schools to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
●● Lau Remedies (1975)
Answer: Mandated bilingual education
●● Castaneda v. Pickard
Answer: Court case that determined that segregation of ELL's only
permissible when the benefits of remedying language barriers outweigh
adverse affects of segregation.
ELLs must be evaluated for effectiveness using a set of established
criteria.
●● Plyer v. Doe
Answer: Court case that determined that the 14th amendment prohibits
states from denying a free public education to undocumented children.
Prohibits schools from request of any documentation of legal status.
●● No Child Left Behind Act (2001)
Answer: Requires the states to set standards and measurable goals that
can improve individual outcomes in education.
Requires the states to develop assessments in basic skills to be given to
all students in certain grades.
TEACHING STRATEGIES COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS STUDY
GUIDE
●● Number of phonemes in English
Answer: 42-44
●● Classifications of consonant phonemes
Answer: Place of Articulation, Manner of Articulation, Voiced or
Unvoiced
●● Classifications of vowel phonemes
Answer: Tongue Position, Lip position
●● Phonological awareness
Answer: Ability to detect, identify, and manipulate the various parts of
the spoken language: words, syllables, onsets, rimes, and phonemes
●● Syllable
Answer: A word or part of a word that is pronounced as a unit and
contains one vowel sound.
,●● Parts of a syllable
Answer: onset and rime. The onset is that part before the vowel, the rime
is the vowel and everything after.
●● Phonogram
Answer: nonlinguistic term for rime (rime is the vowel and everything
after within the same syllable)
●● Lau vs. Nichols
Answer: Decided that the civil rights of students were being violated
when the school did not help them acquire the language of instruction
●● Plessy vs. Ferguson
Answer: (1896) The Court ruled that segregation was not discriminatory
(did not violate black civil rights under the Fourteenth Amendemnt)
provide that blacks received accommodations equal to those of whites.
●● Meyers vs. Nebraska
Answer: U.S. Supreme Court decision protecting the right of language
minority communities to offer private language classes
●● Brown vs. Board
, Answer: 1954- court decision that declared state laws segregating
schools to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
●● Lau Remedies (1975)
Answer: Mandated bilingual education
●● Castaneda v. Pickard
Answer: Court case that determined that segregation of ELL's only
permissible when the benefits of remedying language barriers outweigh
adverse affects of segregation.
ELLs must be evaluated for effectiveness using a set of established
criteria.
●● Plyer v. Doe
Answer: Court case that determined that the 14th amendment prohibits
states from denying a free public education to undocumented children.
Prohibits schools from request of any documentation of legal status.
●● No Child Left Behind Act (2001)
Answer: Requires the states to set standards and measurable goals that
can improve individual outcomes in education.
Requires the states to develop assessments in basic skills to be given to
all students in certain grades.
