MTEL: ESL (54) Practice Test| 100 Questions & Answers Correct 100%!!

Which of the following examples provides the strongest support for the nativist notion that all children are born with an innate sense of universal language principles that can be applied to the acquisition of any language? - ANSWER A child can produce structurally complex novel utterances at a very young age. An ESL teacher is designing a listening lesson for 6th grade intermediate-level English language learners. Which of the following guidelines should the teacher follow in order to align the lesson with the comprehensible input hypothesis? - ANSWER Choose an aural selection that is slightly above the students' comprehension level. Which of the following situations best illustrates James Cummin's theory of Common Underlying Proficiency (CUP)? - ANSWER An English language learner who has knowledge of an academic concept in the 1st language quickly introduced in English. Which of the following types of instructional activities would be most appropriate for ELLs at advanced stages of English language development? - ANSWER Frequent opportunities for the student to use English in challenging, authentic situations. Which of the following utterances would be most typical of an ELL who is in the early production stage of language acquisition? - ANSWER Want crayon. Which of the following vocabulary-learning activities most clearly involves metacognition? - ANSWER Identifying unfamiliar words in a reading passage. Student: (pointing to word in a book) What does it mean invisible? Teacher: Look at the parts of the word. Student: I know in- means "not" and vis is like "visual," something you see with the eyes. I remember -ible is like -able, right? Teacher: Right. Now look at the sentence. Student: (reading) "The creature was practically invisible, hidden in the dense foliage." "Hidden" is like to hide. I guess if it is invisible, it means you're not able to see it because it is hiding. This student's performance most clearly demonstrates which of the following cognitive processes involved in language acquisition? - ANSWER Elaboration and inference