TESOL EXAM NEWEST 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 300 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
Poor and minority students tend to have parents with low levels of education - (answer) True
The U.S education system has done an inadequate job in providing educational opportunities to poor
and minority students. - (answer) True
Native U.S.-born ELLs are ELLs who were born in the U.S. and are citizens. Not many ELLs fall into this
category. - (answer) False
Additive bilingualism occurs when a student develops proficiency in a new language without losing his or
her home language. - (answer) True
U.S.-born ELL's receive a substantial amount of exposure to English through radio, television, movies,
video games, friends, older siblings, relatives, or other members of the community. - (answer) True
"English Proficiency" entails that a student has acquired the English they need to participate and achieve
at school and in society. - (answer) True
Language Minority Students (LMS) are fluent in their native language but lack proficiency in English. -
(answer) False
Immigration to the United States is occuring at rates similar to those of the early 1900s? - (answer)
True
Educators who work with ELLs don't have to be aware of the linguistic diversity in their schools and
communities for them to be able to teach properly. - (answer) False
U.S. born ELLs often do not have opportunities to fully develop their home language, especially in the
area of literacy. - (answer) True
An ELP test is administered each year until the student reaches the proficient level. - (answer) True
,TESOL EXAM NEWEST 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 300 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
Redesignation means the student no longer requires specialized language and content instruction and is
considered ready to participate in mainstream classrooms. - (answer) True
Which of the following refers to the development of proficiency in a second language after proficiency
has been developed in the first language? - (answer) Sequential Bilingualism
ELLs who frequently travel between the U.S and their home country are - (answer) Transnational ELLs
When working with ELLs, teachers should know the following about each student, except: - (answer)
Citizenship status
Language majority refers to: - (answer) Students who speak the dominant societal language, standard
English
10. How can cultural differences impact a student's academic success? - (answer) ELLs may experience
a cultural and linguistic mismatch between their home and school language and culture.
16. Which one is the most frequently reported spoken by English Language Learners between 2009-
2010? - (answer) Spanish
20. All of these are factors that influence an ELL's response to instruction and intervention EXCEPT: -
(answer) ELL's hair color
29. All of the following are factors that contribute to underachievement of ELLS except: - (answer) Up
to date curriculum and trained/certified teachers
42. Which of the following is a level at which students receive multicultural education. - (answer) All of
the above
46. Which of these is NOT one of the WIDA's CAN DO descriptors for English Proficiency levels? -
(answer) growing
, TESOL EXAM NEWEST 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 300 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
49. Which of the following is NOT a reason for teachers to understand the power dynamics between
social identity groups? - (answer) Teachers can maintain the power dynamic between them and their
students
Phonology is the study of the structure of words. - (answer) False
2. Phonemes are the largest units of sound in a language. - (answer) False
3. To know a language involves much more than isolated skills and communicative functions - (answer)
True
5. BICS refers to students abilities to understand and express, in both oral and written modes, concepts
and ideas that are relevant to success in school. - (answer) False
9. To use a word from the lexicon, a speaker needs four kinds of information: sounds and sequencing,
meanings, category and how it is used in a sentence, and how related words such as the plural and past
tense are formed. - (answer) True
12. Morphology is the study of the structure of words. - (answer) True
15. Students difficulties in pronunciation often have to do with the fact that some English phonemes
may not exist or may vary slightly in a student's home language, and vice versa. - (answer) True
17. Syntax is the study of the rules governing the ways words are combined to form sentences and the
rules governing the arrangement of sentence in sequences? - (answer) True
19. Teachers do NOT need to know which language problems will resolve themselves and which
problems need attention. - (answer) False
ANSWERS
Poor and minority students tend to have parents with low levels of education - (answer) True
The U.S education system has done an inadequate job in providing educational opportunities to poor
and minority students. - (answer) True
Native U.S.-born ELLs are ELLs who were born in the U.S. and are citizens. Not many ELLs fall into this
category. - (answer) False
Additive bilingualism occurs when a student develops proficiency in a new language without losing his or
her home language. - (answer) True
U.S.-born ELL's receive a substantial amount of exposure to English through radio, television, movies,
video games, friends, older siblings, relatives, or other members of the community. - (answer) True
"English Proficiency" entails that a student has acquired the English they need to participate and achieve
at school and in society. - (answer) True
Language Minority Students (LMS) are fluent in their native language but lack proficiency in English. -
(answer) False
Immigration to the United States is occuring at rates similar to those of the early 1900s? - (answer)
True
Educators who work with ELLs don't have to be aware of the linguistic diversity in their schools and
communities for them to be able to teach properly. - (answer) False
U.S. born ELLs often do not have opportunities to fully develop their home language, especially in the
area of literacy. - (answer) True
An ELP test is administered each year until the student reaches the proficient level. - (answer) True
,TESOL EXAM NEWEST 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 300 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
Redesignation means the student no longer requires specialized language and content instruction and is
considered ready to participate in mainstream classrooms. - (answer) True
Which of the following refers to the development of proficiency in a second language after proficiency
has been developed in the first language? - (answer) Sequential Bilingualism
ELLs who frequently travel between the U.S and their home country are - (answer) Transnational ELLs
When working with ELLs, teachers should know the following about each student, except: - (answer)
Citizenship status
Language majority refers to: - (answer) Students who speak the dominant societal language, standard
English
10. How can cultural differences impact a student's academic success? - (answer) ELLs may experience
a cultural and linguistic mismatch between their home and school language and culture.
16. Which one is the most frequently reported spoken by English Language Learners between 2009-
2010? - (answer) Spanish
20. All of these are factors that influence an ELL's response to instruction and intervention EXCEPT: -
(answer) ELL's hair color
29. All of the following are factors that contribute to underachievement of ELLS except: - (answer) Up
to date curriculum and trained/certified teachers
42. Which of the following is a level at which students receive multicultural education. - (answer) All of
the above
46. Which of these is NOT one of the WIDA's CAN DO descriptors for English Proficiency levels? -
(answer) growing
, TESOL EXAM NEWEST 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 300 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
49. Which of the following is NOT a reason for teachers to understand the power dynamics between
social identity groups? - (answer) Teachers can maintain the power dynamic between them and their
students
Phonology is the study of the structure of words. - (answer) False
2. Phonemes are the largest units of sound in a language. - (answer) False
3. To know a language involves much more than isolated skills and communicative functions - (answer)
True
5. BICS refers to students abilities to understand and express, in both oral and written modes, concepts
and ideas that are relevant to success in school. - (answer) False
9. To use a word from the lexicon, a speaker needs four kinds of information: sounds and sequencing,
meanings, category and how it is used in a sentence, and how related words such as the plural and past
tense are formed. - (answer) True
12. Morphology is the study of the structure of words. - (answer) True
15. Students difficulties in pronunciation often have to do with the fact that some English phonemes
may not exist or may vary slightly in a student's home language, and vice versa. - (answer) True
17. Syntax is the study of the rules governing the ways words are combined to form sentences and the
rules governing the arrangement of sentence in sequences? - (answer) True
19. Teachers do NOT need to know which language problems will resolve themselves and which
problems need attention. - (answer) False
