ESL 154 LATEST UPDATED ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔BICS - ✔✔Basic Interpersonal Communicatin Skills; language skills needed in social
situations, day to day lang., playground, lunchroom, school bus, parties, etc; not very
cognitively demanding
✔✔CALP - ✔✔Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency; refers to formal academic
learning; reading, listening, speaking, writing about subject area content; cognitively
demanding
✔✔SIOP - ✔✔Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
✔✔LPAC - ✔✔Language Proficience Assessment Committe
✔✔Bloom - ✔✔Higher order thinking, engaging students in critical thinking
✔✔Cummins - ✔✔CALP, cognitive academic language proficiency
✔✔Gardner - ✔✔Multiple opportunities to learn, multiple intelligences
✔✔Instructional Delivery - ✔✔Pre-teaching vocabulary, apply familiar concepts from
their cultural backgrounds, apply prior experiences to new learning strategies, use
hands-on strategies, Use realia-media- and other visual supports
✔✔Formal Assessment - ✔✔evalutate student achievement for accountability and is
measured after students have ample time to demonstrate mastery of intended
objectives
✔✔Informal Assessment - ✔✔is oral and done in all lessons to determine
developmentally appropriate instruction
✔✔Assessment Record-Keeping Methods - ✔✔Anecdontal record, observational
checklist, & rating scale
, ✔✔English Language Learners Program - ✔✔1. Transitional Bilingual, 2.
Developmental Bilingual, 3. Two-Way Immersion, 4. Support Role
✔✔Transitional Bilingual - ✔✔Native Language in core academic phase and slowly
integrate English
✔✔Developmental Bilingual - ✔✔Native Language in core academic phase and will
apply when needed
✔✔Two-Way Immersion - ✔✔half the class will be Native Language only and the other
half of class will know both N.L. and English
✔✔Support Role - ✔✔In content classes using English with the help of a
paraprofessional ESL teacher helping the content teacher with that ESL student
✔✔LEA - ✔✔language experience approach
✔✔ESL General Reading Skills - ✔✔Phonological awareness, Phonemic awareness,
sight words that are high-frequency words
✔✔Phonological - ✔✔Pertaining to a speaker's knowledge about sound patterns in a
language.
✔✔Phonemic - ✔✔Ability to identify individual sounds, or phonemes, in a language, is
the development of this awareness
✔✔Types of Standardized Test for ESL - ✔✔Oral Lang. Prof. Test, Norm-Referenced
Academic Achievemnet Test, TPRI/Tejas LEE, RPTE, TOP, TAKS
✔✔TPRI - ✔✔Texas Primary Reading Inventory; allows a teacher to quickly gather
information about the development of the student's reading concepts;engages the
student with inviting tasks and entertaining stories, while giving the teacher an
opportunity to gather more data to help match reading instruction with specific student
needs
✔✔Tejas LEE - ✔✔The Tejas LEE was developed to address areas important to the
development of Spanish reading and comprehension
✔✔Norm-REferenced Academic Achievement test - ✔✔Norm-referenced tests (NRTs)
compare a person's score against the scores of a group of people who have already
taken the same exam, called the "norming group.
✔✔RPTE - ✔✔Reading Proficiency Tests in English, grade 3-12
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔BICS - ✔✔Basic Interpersonal Communicatin Skills; language skills needed in social
situations, day to day lang., playground, lunchroom, school bus, parties, etc; not very
cognitively demanding
✔✔CALP - ✔✔Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency; refers to formal academic
learning; reading, listening, speaking, writing about subject area content; cognitively
demanding
✔✔SIOP - ✔✔Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
✔✔LPAC - ✔✔Language Proficience Assessment Committe
✔✔Bloom - ✔✔Higher order thinking, engaging students in critical thinking
✔✔Cummins - ✔✔CALP, cognitive academic language proficiency
✔✔Gardner - ✔✔Multiple opportunities to learn, multiple intelligences
✔✔Instructional Delivery - ✔✔Pre-teaching vocabulary, apply familiar concepts from
their cultural backgrounds, apply prior experiences to new learning strategies, use
hands-on strategies, Use realia-media- and other visual supports
✔✔Formal Assessment - ✔✔evalutate student achievement for accountability and is
measured after students have ample time to demonstrate mastery of intended
objectives
✔✔Informal Assessment - ✔✔is oral and done in all lessons to determine
developmentally appropriate instruction
✔✔Assessment Record-Keeping Methods - ✔✔Anecdontal record, observational
checklist, & rating scale
, ✔✔English Language Learners Program - ✔✔1. Transitional Bilingual, 2.
Developmental Bilingual, 3. Two-Way Immersion, 4. Support Role
✔✔Transitional Bilingual - ✔✔Native Language in core academic phase and slowly
integrate English
✔✔Developmental Bilingual - ✔✔Native Language in core academic phase and will
apply when needed
✔✔Two-Way Immersion - ✔✔half the class will be Native Language only and the other
half of class will know both N.L. and English
✔✔Support Role - ✔✔In content classes using English with the help of a
paraprofessional ESL teacher helping the content teacher with that ESL student
✔✔LEA - ✔✔language experience approach
✔✔ESL General Reading Skills - ✔✔Phonological awareness, Phonemic awareness,
sight words that are high-frequency words
✔✔Phonological - ✔✔Pertaining to a speaker's knowledge about sound patterns in a
language.
✔✔Phonemic - ✔✔Ability to identify individual sounds, or phonemes, in a language, is
the development of this awareness
✔✔Types of Standardized Test for ESL - ✔✔Oral Lang. Prof. Test, Norm-Referenced
Academic Achievemnet Test, TPRI/Tejas LEE, RPTE, TOP, TAKS
✔✔TPRI - ✔✔Texas Primary Reading Inventory; allows a teacher to quickly gather
information about the development of the student's reading concepts;engages the
student with inviting tasks and entertaining stories, while giving the teacher an
opportunity to gather more data to help match reading instruction with specific student
needs
✔✔Tejas LEE - ✔✔The Tejas LEE was developed to address areas important to the
development of Spanish reading and comprehension
✔✔Norm-REferenced Academic Achievement test - ✔✔Norm-referenced tests (NRTs)
compare a person's score against the scores of a group of people who have already
taken the same exam, called the "norming group.
✔✔RPTE - ✔✔Reading Proficiency Tests in English, grade 3-12
