TESOL QUIZZES QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT!!!
Q: What is the federal government's definition of an EL? ✔✔ Students who
don't understand English well enough to be successful in an English-language
classroom
Q: What are school districts required to do with ELs? ✔✔ Give a Home
Language Survey to all students to identify ELs
Q: What is the relationship between ELs' (L1) native language oral
proficiency and literacy, and their (L2) English literacy skills? ✔✔ Native
language (L1) oral proficiency and literacy improves English (L2)
Q: Which aspect of language takes young ELs longer to master? ✔✔ CALP, or
"academic language" (rather than BICS, or "playground language")
Which type of program would ELs receive L1 support as they move into an
English-speaking environment? -ANSWER ✔✔Transitional bilingual program
How have ideas about teaching ELLs changed since the 1990s? -ANSWER
✔✔Newer research shows that bilingualism has benefits, and ELLs learn English
better when they can maintain their L1.
How does the brain functioning of bilingual people seem to differ from that of
monolingual people? -ANSWER ✔✔Bilingual people have better executive
functioning and problem-solving abilities.
, How long does it take most ELs to develop academic (context-reduced) registers of
language? -ANSWER ✔✔Up to 7 years
Vygotsky's theory of sociocultural development -ANSWER ✔✔Learning is a
social process in which students can acquire new thinking skills by doing work
within the Zone of Proximal Development
A critique of progressive pedagogy -ANSWER ✔✔It disadvantages ELs because it
doesn't provide explicit language teaching.
An example of an ELs producing comprehensible output in English -ANSWER
✔✔Talking with a peer in English during paired problem solving.
Why is using "stretched language" important for ELs? -ANSWER ✔✔It allows
them to develop language skills beyond those they already have.
The relationship between L1 (mother language) literacy and L2 literacy -
ANSWER ✔✔The stronger L1 literacy is, the more likely they are to be successful
in learning an L2.
A weakness of the IRE pattern in teaching ELs -ANSWER ✔✔It does not allow
ELs to engage in dialogues with peers or teachers.
Message abundancy -ANSWER ✔✔Presenting information more than one way, in
spoken and visual modes.
Sytnax -ANSWER ✔✔Rules governing word order
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT!!!
Q: What is the federal government's definition of an EL? ✔✔ Students who
don't understand English well enough to be successful in an English-language
classroom
Q: What are school districts required to do with ELs? ✔✔ Give a Home
Language Survey to all students to identify ELs
Q: What is the relationship between ELs' (L1) native language oral
proficiency and literacy, and their (L2) English literacy skills? ✔✔ Native
language (L1) oral proficiency and literacy improves English (L2)
Q: Which aspect of language takes young ELs longer to master? ✔✔ CALP, or
"academic language" (rather than BICS, or "playground language")
Which type of program would ELs receive L1 support as they move into an
English-speaking environment? -ANSWER ✔✔Transitional bilingual program
How have ideas about teaching ELLs changed since the 1990s? -ANSWER
✔✔Newer research shows that bilingualism has benefits, and ELLs learn English
better when they can maintain their L1.
How does the brain functioning of bilingual people seem to differ from that of
monolingual people? -ANSWER ✔✔Bilingual people have better executive
functioning and problem-solving abilities.
, How long does it take most ELs to develop academic (context-reduced) registers of
language? -ANSWER ✔✔Up to 7 years
Vygotsky's theory of sociocultural development -ANSWER ✔✔Learning is a
social process in which students can acquire new thinking skills by doing work
within the Zone of Proximal Development
A critique of progressive pedagogy -ANSWER ✔✔It disadvantages ELs because it
doesn't provide explicit language teaching.
An example of an ELs producing comprehensible output in English -ANSWER
✔✔Talking with a peer in English during paired problem solving.
Why is using "stretched language" important for ELs? -ANSWER ✔✔It allows
them to develop language skills beyond those they already have.
The relationship between L1 (mother language) literacy and L2 literacy -
ANSWER ✔✔The stronger L1 literacy is, the more likely they are to be successful
in learning an L2.
A weakness of the IRE pattern in teaching ELs -ANSWER ✔✔It does not allow
ELs to engage in dialogues with peers or teachers.
Message abundancy -ANSWER ✔✔Presenting information more than one way, in
spoken and visual modes.
Sytnax -ANSWER ✔✔Rules governing word order
