Teaching English as a Second Language Questions with Correct Answers (100% Accurate)

What does ELL stand for? Correct Answer English Language Learner What does BICS stand for? Correct Answer Basic interpersonal Communication Skills What is CALP? Correct Answer Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (5-7yrs) What is TESOL? Correct Answer Teachers of English to Speakers of other languages What are the two most populous minority groups? Correct Answer Hispanics with 52 million & Asians with 18.2 million What is does Moribund mean? Correct Answer This is when the world's languages are no longer being learned by children. Nearly 1/2 the worlds languages are moribund. What is Linguistic Genocide? Correct Answer Systematic Extermination of a minority language. Why is it important to not let languages die? Correct Answer It becomes also the loss of much of the cultural, spiritual, and intellectual life of people as experienced through language, ranging from prayers, myths, ceremonies, poetry...ect What is Critical Pedagogy? Correct Answer Begins with posing problems to students and then the students try to resolve problems using their background knowledge and culture. What are "Codes"? Correct Answer Photographs, drawings, collages, stories, written dialogues, movies, or songs, which are used as stimulus situations. Who was Tollefson and what was his theory? Correct Answer He believed in Dual-Language proficiency. Attainment of advanced skills in more than one language will be the source of employment advancement for job seekers in the global economy. Who was Foucault and what was his theory? Correct Answer He believed that language is power. Authorities have used language to repress social groups. Who was Bourdieu and what was his theory? Correct Answer He believed that language functions as social capital(an asset). Those native speakers of a high status