ELO1 WGU PRACTICE EXAM TEST QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+ 2025
✔✔Desuggestopedia - ✔✔An approach based on lowering the students' affective filter
as much as possible to encourage acquisition.
✔✔Communicative Language learning - ✔✔emphasizes real life skills
✔✔Natural Approach (Krashen & Terrell) - ✔✔Comprehensible input, affective filter,
natural order, monitor
✔✔Total physical response - ✔✔James J. Asher in 1960's; language-learning tool
based on the relationships between language and its physical representation or
execution; emphasizes use of physical activity -- pick up pencil, stand up
✔✔Communicative Language Teaching - ✔✔language as a tool for communicating
information and ideas through teaching. Create realistic context for SLA in classroom,
focus on functional language usage and ability to express self
✔✔Content Based Instruction & Task Based Instruction - ✔✔Engage students in
learning other subject matter, tasks, or in problem solving around other issues in their
lives.
✔✔Overgeneralization - ✔✔As a newcomer and beginning ELL student, Yih Ming
rapidly acquired past tense forms such as
"went" and "came." Shortly thereafter, she began to say "goed" and "comed." This
development is best explained by the concept of
✔✔Bottom Up Strategies - ✔✔Analyzing relationships between words in a sentence
AND Deciphering the meanings of individual words in a sentence
✔✔Appropriate instruction for ELL students with limited formal schooling (LFS) should
first emphasize - ✔✔Visually rich classrooms and a focus on familiar experiences
✔✔Differentiated instruction, which addresses not only different ability levels but also
different needs, interests, and strengths of learners, includes all of the following
EXCEPT - ✔✔Homogenous assignments
✔✔Which of the following approaches to correcting speech errors is most appropriate to
use with beginning language learners in a conversation class? - ✔✔Correct only those
errors that interfere with communicating meaning
✔✔Which of the following is an example of a metacognitive learning strategy that could
be modeled for ELL students? - ✔✔Self-monitoring
, ✔✔Examples of scaffolding - ✔✔Increased wait time, paraphrasing, visuals
✔✔Those who argue that students should be allowed to use their home language in
class cite which of the following as the primary benefit of this practice? - ✔✔It enhances
exposure to developmentally appropriate content.
✔✔An instructional activity that focuses on specific minimal pairs would assist beginning
ELL students primarily by - ✔✔Helping them distinguish between different sounds of
English
✔✔Which of the following is true of Cummins' cognitive academic language proficiency -
✔✔It is context reduced, critical to the success in formal educational settings, it takes
longer to acquire than basic interpersonal communication skills
✔✔The current system of placement into English language classes at Thomas High
School is a norm referenced test, but advancement to the next level of instruction is
based on criterion-based tests. The high school's choice of a criterion-referenced test is
appropriate for advancement within its English-language program because a criterion-
referenced test can - ✔✔determine if students have attained a desired level of skills and
abilities
✔✔Which of the following sentences is in the passive voice? - ✔✔Dinner is being
prepared.
✔✔Fossilization - ✔✔Which of the following terms has been used by second-language
theorists to refer to a point past which language learners cannot progress without
exceptional effort or motivation?
✔✔Revise - ✔✔A group of fourth-grade intermediate-level ESOL students are using the
writing process to construct a paragraph. They have completed their first drafts and
obtained a peer review. Which of the following are they most likely to do next?
✔✔Semantics - ✔✔Which field of study is concerned with the meanings of words,
phrases, and nonliteral expressions?
✔✔Which of the following best characterizes Krashen's recommendations for
determining appropriateness of reading materials for ESL learners? - ✔✔They should
be at a level of complexity slightly beyond the reader's current reading level.
✔✔Example of a consonant digraph - ✔✔Shirt
✔✔Constructivism - ✔✔An ESL teacher seeks to build a classroom community by
helping students get to know each other, creating problem-solving activities for students
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+ 2025
✔✔Desuggestopedia - ✔✔An approach based on lowering the students' affective filter
as much as possible to encourage acquisition.
✔✔Communicative Language learning - ✔✔emphasizes real life skills
✔✔Natural Approach (Krashen & Terrell) - ✔✔Comprehensible input, affective filter,
natural order, monitor
✔✔Total physical response - ✔✔James J. Asher in 1960's; language-learning tool
based on the relationships between language and its physical representation or
execution; emphasizes use of physical activity -- pick up pencil, stand up
✔✔Communicative Language Teaching - ✔✔language as a tool for communicating
information and ideas through teaching. Create realistic context for SLA in classroom,
focus on functional language usage and ability to express self
✔✔Content Based Instruction & Task Based Instruction - ✔✔Engage students in
learning other subject matter, tasks, or in problem solving around other issues in their
lives.
✔✔Overgeneralization - ✔✔As a newcomer and beginning ELL student, Yih Ming
rapidly acquired past tense forms such as
"went" and "came." Shortly thereafter, she began to say "goed" and "comed." This
development is best explained by the concept of
✔✔Bottom Up Strategies - ✔✔Analyzing relationships between words in a sentence
AND Deciphering the meanings of individual words in a sentence
✔✔Appropriate instruction for ELL students with limited formal schooling (LFS) should
first emphasize - ✔✔Visually rich classrooms and a focus on familiar experiences
✔✔Differentiated instruction, which addresses not only different ability levels but also
different needs, interests, and strengths of learners, includes all of the following
EXCEPT - ✔✔Homogenous assignments
✔✔Which of the following approaches to correcting speech errors is most appropriate to
use with beginning language learners in a conversation class? - ✔✔Correct only those
errors that interfere with communicating meaning
✔✔Which of the following is an example of a metacognitive learning strategy that could
be modeled for ELL students? - ✔✔Self-monitoring
, ✔✔Examples of scaffolding - ✔✔Increased wait time, paraphrasing, visuals
✔✔Those who argue that students should be allowed to use their home language in
class cite which of the following as the primary benefit of this practice? - ✔✔It enhances
exposure to developmentally appropriate content.
✔✔An instructional activity that focuses on specific minimal pairs would assist beginning
ELL students primarily by - ✔✔Helping them distinguish between different sounds of
English
✔✔Which of the following is true of Cummins' cognitive academic language proficiency -
✔✔It is context reduced, critical to the success in formal educational settings, it takes
longer to acquire than basic interpersonal communication skills
✔✔The current system of placement into English language classes at Thomas High
School is a norm referenced test, but advancement to the next level of instruction is
based on criterion-based tests. The high school's choice of a criterion-referenced test is
appropriate for advancement within its English-language program because a criterion-
referenced test can - ✔✔determine if students have attained a desired level of skills and
abilities
✔✔Which of the following sentences is in the passive voice? - ✔✔Dinner is being
prepared.
✔✔Fossilization - ✔✔Which of the following terms has been used by second-language
theorists to refer to a point past which language learners cannot progress without
exceptional effort or motivation?
✔✔Revise - ✔✔A group of fourth-grade intermediate-level ESOL students are using the
writing process to construct a paragraph. They have completed their first drafts and
obtained a peer review. Which of the following are they most likely to do next?
✔✔Semantics - ✔✔Which field of study is concerned with the meanings of words,
phrases, and nonliteral expressions?
✔✔Which of the following best characterizes Krashen's recommendations for
determining appropriateness of reading materials for ESL learners? - ✔✔They should
be at a level of complexity slightly beyond the reader's current reading level.
✔✔Example of a consonant digraph - ✔✔Shirt
✔✔Constructivism - ✔✔An ESL teacher seeks to build a classroom community by
helping students get to know each other, creating problem-solving activities for students
