EPSY Final Exam questions with
complete solutions
Academic Language (180) - correct answer ✔✔The entire range of language used in elementary,
secondary, and university-level schools including words, concepts, strategies, and processes from
academic subjects
Balanced Lingualize (177) - correct answer ✔✔Adding a second language capability without losing your
heritage language
Bilingual (175) - correct answer ✔✔Speaking two languages and dealing appropriately in the face of
contradictory evidence
Code-Switching (184) - correct answer ✔✔Moving between two speech forms
Critical Periods (175) - correct answer ✔✔If learning doesn't happen during these periods, it never will
Cultural Deficit Model (186) - correct answer ✔✔A model that explains the school achievement
problems of ethnic minority students by assuming that their culture in inadequate and does not prepare
them to succeed in school
Dialect (182) - correct answer ✔✔Any variety of language spoken by a particular group
Emergent Literacy (171) - correct answer ✔✔The skills and knowledge, usually developed in the
preschool years, that are the foundation for the development of reading and writing
English as a Second Language (ESL) (189) - correct answer ✔✔The classes devoted to teaching ELL
students English
, English Language Learners (ELL) (186) - correct answer ✔✔Students who are learning English when their
primary or heritage language is not English
Expressive Vocabulary (169) - correct answer ✔✔The words a person can use in speaking
Funds of Knowledge (196) - correct answer ✔✔Knowledge that families and community members have
acquired in many areas of work, home, and religious life that can become the basis for teaching
Genderlects (184) - correct answer ✔✔Different ways of talking for males and females
Generation 1.5 (188) - correct answer ✔✔Students whose characteristics, educational experiences, and
language fluencies are somewhere in between those of students born in the United States and students
who are recent immigrants
Heritage Language (176) - correct answer ✔✔The language spoken in the student's home or by
members of the family
Immigrants (185) - correct answer ✔✔People who voluntarily leave their country to become permanent
residents in a new place
Inside-Out Skills (172) - correct answer ✔✔The emergent literacy skills of knowledge of graphemes,
phonological awareness, syntactic awareness, phoneme-grapheme correspondence, and emergent
writing
Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) (189) - correct answer ✔✔A term also used for students who are
learning English when their primary or heritage language is not English- not the preferred term because
of the negative connotations
Melting Pot (185) - correct answer ✔✔A metaphor for the absorption and assimilation of immigrants
into the mainstream of society so that ethnic differences vanish
Metalinguistic Awareness (171) - correct answer ✔✔Understanding about one's own use of language
complete solutions
Academic Language (180) - correct answer ✔✔The entire range of language used in elementary,
secondary, and university-level schools including words, concepts, strategies, and processes from
academic subjects
Balanced Lingualize (177) - correct answer ✔✔Adding a second language capability without losing your
heritage language
Bilingual (175) - correct answer ✔✔Speaking two languages and dealing appropriately in the face of
contradictory evidence
Code-Switching (184) - correct answer ✔✔Moving between two speech forms
Critical Periods (175) - correct answer ✔✔If learning doesn't happen during these periods, it never will
Cultural Deficit Model (186) - correct answer ✔✔A model that explains the school achievement
problems of ethnic minority students by assuming that their culture in inadequate and does not prepare
them to succeed in school
Dialect (182) - correct answer ✔✔Any variety of language spoken by a particular group
Emergent Literacy (171) - correct answer ✔✔The skills and knowledge, usually developed in the
preschool years, that are the foundation for the development of reading and writing
English as a Second Language (ESL) (189) - correct answer ✔✔The classes devoted to teaching ELL
students English
, English Language Learners (ELL) (186) - correct answer ✔✔Students who are learning English when their
primary or heritage language is not English
Expressive Vocabulary (169) - correct answer ✔✔The words a person can use in speaking
Funds of Knowledge (196) - correct answer ✔✔Knowledge that families and community members have
acquired in many areas of work, home, and religious life that can become the basis for teaching
Genderlects (184) - correct answer ✔✔Different ways of talking for males and females
Generation 1.5 (188) - correct answer ✔✔Students whose characteristics, educational experiences, and
language fluencies are somewhere in between those of students born in the United States and students
who are recent immigrants
Heritage Language (176) - correct answer ✔✔The language spoken in the student's home or by
members of the family
Immigrants (185) - correct answer ✔✔People who voluntarily leave their country to become permanent
residents in a new place
Inside-Out Skills (172) - correct answer ✔✔The emergent literacy skills of knowledge of graphemes,
phonological awareness, syntactic awareness, phoneme-grapheme correspondence, and emergent
writing
Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) (189) - correct answer ✔✔A term also used for students who are
learning English when their primary or heritage language is not English- not the preferred term because
of the negative connotations
Melting Pot (185) - correct answer ✔✔A metaphor for the absorption and assimilation of immigrants
into the mainstream of society so that ethnic differences vanish
Metalinguistic Awareness (171) - correct answer ✔✔Understanding about one's own use of language
