West-E ELL Exam Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Acculturation - Answer✔️✔️-The adoption of the behavior patterns of the
surrounding culture.
KWL - Answer✔️✔️-Know, want to know and what I learned
cognates - Answer✔️✔️-words that come from the same root. Words that are
related across languages
CALLA - Answer✔️✔️-cognitive academic language learning approach.
Content-based approach to language teaching emphasizes the
development of metacognition and strategies for learning language
through content study
BICS - Answer✔️✔️-basic interpersonal communicative skills, or
conversational language
Cultural Pluralism - Answer✔️✔️-A condition in which minority groups
participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain their cultural
differences.
Cultural Identity - Answer✔️✔️-The identity of a group or culture, or of an
individual as far as one is influenced by one's belonging to a group or
culture.
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Assimilation - Answer✔️✔️-People of different backgrounds come to see
themselves as part of a larger national family.
Sheltered English Instruction (SEI) - Answer✔️✔️-Sheltered English
instruction is an instructional approach that engages ELLs above the
beginner level in developing grade-level content-area knowledge,
academic skills, and increased English proficiency. In sheltered English
classes, teachers use clear, direct, simple English and a wide range of
scaffolding strategies to communicate meaningful input in the content area
to students. Learning activities that connect new content to students' prior
knowledge, that require collaboration among students, and that spiral
through curriculum material, offer ELLs the grade-level content instruction
of their English-speaking peers, while adapting lesson delivery to suit their
English proficiency level.
Conversational Repair - Answer✔️✔️-Repeating an incorrect sentence with
some sort of correction.
Example:
Child: Me want candy.
Adult: I want candy.
Castañeda v. Pickard - Answer✔️✔️-Said students were being racially
discriminated in school.
Outcome: Equal Educational Opportunities Act --
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