CTEL 1 Practice Exam questions and answers
2024\2025 GradeA+
Assign rhyming words in poems and songs as minimal pairs to place it in whole-word contexts
- correct answer Second-grade English language learners (ELLs) are struggling with pronunciation of an
English-language phoneme not found in their native language. What would be the best strategy for a
teacher to do first?
Discriminating between independent clauses and dependent clauses
- correct answer English language learner (ELL) students in an English language development (ELD) class
at the early-advanced level typically show writing errors like the underlined part of the following: "We
studied all week. TO GET GOOD SCORES ON THE TEST." What should their teacher first instruct them to
learn?
Their native language always preceded consonant clusters with the /E/.
- correct answer Spanish-speaking students learning English commonly add /E/ before word-initial
consonand clusters like /sp/, /st/, /spr/, /str/, and so on, for example, "espeak," "estudy," "esprinkle,"
"estrike." Why does this happen?
morphology
- correct answer A Chinese student learning English tends to speak and write constructions like this:
"This dish is my favorite because it has shrimp, snow pea, water chestnut, and bamboo shoot." To
correct the errors represented in this sentence, what part of the English language does the teacher need
to address?
False cognates
- correct answer A Mexican student is aghast when an American classmate tries to communicate with
her in Spanish and translates "embarrassed" to "embarazada." The teacher helps her explain to the
American classmate that, in Spanish, this word means pregnant. What is the difference an example?
, The influence of contextual discourse factors on language variation choices
- correct answer Since coming to America, Fredo has learned to speak English using different vocabulary
words and sentence structures when addressing his teachers and principal than he does when
conversing with his friends. This is an example of which of the following?
Help them analyze provided sample essays, and make graphic organizers of various essay types.
- correct answer A high school teacher wants to familiarize ELL students with standard discourse
structures and conventions used in academic essays. What activity would be most appropriate for this
purpose?
Fluency
- correct answer Sylvia is a high school English language learner (ELL) student. When given oral discourse
activities, she is very good at addressing points classmates have just brought up, organizing her ideas,
unifying her overall message, and finding appropriate English words and phrases to make connections
and transitions between sentences. However, she speaks very slowly, with many pauses and
interruptions between phrases and sentences. On which area does she need to work?
Pragmatics in using language
- correct answer An English language learner (ELL) student from Italy shows strengths in oral discourse,
including good eye contact and expressive physical gestures. However, his American classmates are put
off by his maintaining closer physical proximity than they expect when conversing with them. What is
this cultural difference a feature of?
the combination of roots and affixes
- correct answer An example of a morphological feature of language is...
Calisthenics
- correct answer An example of an English word that has a Greek origin is...
Calcium
- correct answer An example of a word that has roots in both Greek and Latin is...
Clavicle and clavichord
- correct answer An example of a pair of words that share the same root is...
2024\2025 GradeA+
Assign rhyming words in poems and songs as minimal pairs to place it in whole-word contexts
- correct answer Second-grade English language learners (ELLs) are struggling with pronunciation of an
English-language phoneme not found in their native language. What would be the best strategy for a
teacher to do first?
Discriminating between independent clauses and dependent clauses
- correct answer English language learner (ELL) students in an English language development (ELD) class
at the early-advanced level typically show writing errors like the underlined part of the following: "We
studied all week. TO GET GOOD SCORES ON THE TEST." What should their teacher first instruct them to
learn?
Their native language always preceded consonant clusters with the /E/.
- correct answer Spanish-speaking students learning English commonly add /E/ before word-initial
consonand clusters like /sp/, /st/, /spr/, /str/, and so on, for example, "espeak," "estudy," "esprinkle,"
"estrike." Why does this happen?
morphology
- correct answer A Chinese student learning English tends to speak and write constructions like this:
"This dish is my favorite because it has shrimp, snow pea, water chestnut, and bamboo shoot." To
correct the errors represented in this sentence, what part of the English language does the teacher need
to address?
False cognates
- correct answer A Mexican student is aghast when an American classmate tries to communicate with
her in Spanish and translates "embarrassed" to "embarazada." The teacher helps her explain to the
American classmate that, in Spanish, this word means pregnant. What is the difference an example?
, The influence of contextual discourse factors on language variation choices
- correct answer Since coming to America, Fredo has learned to speak English using different vocabulary
words and sentence structures when addressing his teachers and principal than he does when
conversing with his friends. This is an example of which of the following?
Help them analyze provided sample essays, and make graphic organizers of various essay types.
- correct answer A high school teacher wants to familiarize ELL students with standard discourse
structures and conventions used in academic essays. What activity would be most appropriate for this
purpose?
Fluency
- correct answer Sylvia is a high school English language learner (ELL) student. When given oral discourse
activities, she is very good at addressing points classmates have just brought up, organizing her ideas,
unifying her overall message, and finding appropriate English words and phrases to make connections
and transitions between sentences. However, she speaks very slowly, with many pauses and
interruptions between phrases and sentences. On which area does she need to work?
Pragmatics in using language
- correct answer An English language learner (ELL) student from Italy shows strengths in oral discourse,
including good eye contact and expressive physical gestures. However, his American classmates are put
off by his maintaining closer physical proximity than they expect when conversing with them. What is
this cultural difference a feature of?
the combination of roots and affixes
- correct answer An example of a morphological feature of language is...
Calisthenics
- correct answer An example of an English word that has a Greek origin is...
Calcium
- correct answer An example of a word that has roots in both Greek and Latin is...
Clavicle and clavichord
- correct answer An example of a pair of words that share the same root is...
