ESOL GACE CORRECT EXAMS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Intentionality - ✔✔Language part of holistic development, depends on environment
✔✔Error analysis - ✔✔Recognizing patterns of error
✔✔Interlanguage - ✔✔Universal aspects of target language
✔✔Development patterns - ✔✔The order in which features of a language are acquired
and sequenced
✔✔The Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis - ✔✔Difference between acquisition and
learning (coursework, study, memorization)
✔✔The Monitor Hypothesis - ✔✔Learned language monitors the acquired
✔✔The Natural Order Hypothesis - ✔✔Grammar structures are logical and follow a
natural order
✔✔The Input Hypothesis - ✔✔Comprehensible Input (learning best when instruction is
just above ability)
✔✔The Affective Filter Hypothesis - ✔✔People learn best when relaxed, motivated and
self-confident
✔✔Steps of learning - ✔✔1) Silent period, 2) Private speech, 3) Lexical chunks, 4)
Formulaic speech, and 5) Experimental or simplified speech
✔✔PRAC - ✔✔Practicing, receiving/sending messages, analyzing and reasoning, and
creating structure
, ✔✔Critical Period Hypothesis - ✔✔First ten years best for SLA
✔✔Cultural relativism - ✔✔Beliefs and understandings should be understood in the
context of society
✔✔Cultural universalism - ✔✔elements, patterns, traits or institutions that are comon to
all human cultures
✔✔Assimilation - ✔✔process of integration
✔✔Acculturation - ✔✔Becoming accustomed to customs, languages, practices,
environment of a new culture or group
✔✔Transculturation - ✔✔Acculturation for an individual
✔✔Accommodation - ✔✔Motivations underlying adapting our language and
communication patterns to others
✔✔Language rights - ✔✔The right of each individual to enjoy uniquely individual and
communal privilege of belonging to a language group
✔✔Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ✔✔No federal funding recipient can discriminate against
ELL
✔✔May 25 Memo - ✔✔District must seek to rectify language deficiency (can't place ELL
in LD classes, exclude from college prep or fail to notify parents)
✔✔Lau v. Nichols - ✔✔Schools must meet legal criteria for programs, form a language
assessment committee, outline staff responsibilities and credentials for instruction,
identify assessment tools, set program criteria, set parameters for transition/monitoring,
determine program effectiveness
✔✔Castaneda v. Pickard - ✔✔3 criteria to determine effectiveness of ELL program: 1)
based on pedagogically sound education theory recognized by experts, 2) must be
implemented effectively with resources for personnel, materials, and space, and 3) must
produce results that language barriers are being overcome
✔✔Nation at Risk - ✔✔NAEP (National Assessment of Education Progress) kees record
of school performance
✔✔NCLB - ✔✔evaluates school data by looking at disaggregated data
✔✔Immersion Education Model - ✔✔Instruction in non-native language
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Intentionality - ✔✔Language part of holistic development, depends on environment
✔✔Error analysis - ✔✔Recognizing patterns of error
✔✔Interlanguage - ✔✔Universal aspects of target language
✔✔Development patterns - ✔✔The order in which features of a language are acquired
and sequenced
✔✔The Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis - ✔✔Difference between acquisition and
learning (coursework, study, memorization)
✔✔The Monitor Hypothesis - ✔✔Learned language monitors the acquired
✔✔The Natural Order Hypothesis - ✔✔Grammar structures are logical and follow a
natural order
✔✔The Input Hypothesis - ✔✔Comprehensible Input (learning best when instruction is
just above ability)
✔✔The Affective Filter Hypothesis - ✔✔People learn best when relaxed, motivated and
self-confident
✔✔Steps of learning - ✔✔1) Silent period, 2) Private speech, 3) Lexical chunks, 4)
Formulaic speech, and 5) Experimental or simplified speech
✔✔PRAC - ✔✔Practicing, receiving/sending messages, analyzing and reasoning, and
creating structure
, ✔✔Critical Period Hypothesis - ✔✔First ten years best for SLA
✔✔Cultural relativism - ✔✔Beliefs and understandings should be understood in the
context of society
✔✔Cultural universalism - ✔✔elements, patterns, traits or institutions that are comon to
all human cultures
✔✔Assimilation - ✔✔process of integration
✔✔Acculturation - ✔✔Becoming accustomed to customs, languages, practices,
environment of a new culture or group
✔✔Transculturation - ✔✔Acculturation for an individual
✔✔Accommodation - ✔✔Motivations underlying adapting our language and
communication patterns to others
✔✔Language rights - ✔✔The right of each individual to enjoy uniquely individual and
communal privilege of belonging to a language group
✔✔Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ✔✔No federal funding recipient can discriminate against
ELL
✔✔May 25 Memo - ✔✔District must seek to rectify language deficiency (can't place ELL
in LD classes, exclude from college prep or fail to notify parents)
✔✔Lau v. Nichols - ✔✔Schools must meet legal criteria for programs, form a language
assessment committee, outline staff responsibilities and credentials for instruction,
identify assessment tools, set program criteria, set parameters for transition/monitoring,
determine program effectiveness
✔✔Castaneda v. Pickard - ✔✔3 criteria to determine effectiveness of ELL program: 1)
based on pedagogically sound education theory recognized by experts, 2) must be
implemented effectively with resources for personnel, materials, and space, and 3) must
produce results that language barriers are being overcome
✔✔Nation at Risk - ✔✔NAEP (National Assessment of Education Progress) kees record
of school performance
✔✔NCLB - ✔✔evaluates school data by looking at disaggregated data
✔✔Immersion Education Model - ✔✔Instruction in non-native language
