ELL TEST and Answers

ELL TEST and Answers Root Word Suffix classi fy astonish ment resource ful Which of the following best describes the effect that the suffixes in the second column have on the root words in the first column when the two are combined? - The suffixes change the grammatical category of the root word. Class is changed from noun to verb, astonish changed from verb to noun, resource is changed from noun to adjective. Which of the following represents an acceptable order of parts of speech in an English sentence? - Subject-Verb-Indirect Object-Direct Object He told you the answers. Use the exchange below between an ELL teacher and an English language learner to answer the question that follows. Teacher: Your group was hands down the fastest to solve the problem! Student: But our hands were not down; they were up! Which of the following best explains the student's response? - The student is interpreting the meaning of an English idiom literally. Until these expressions are mastered, students will most often interpret them literally. A fourth-grade English language learner who recently arrived in the United States has been placed in a general education class. The student studied English in his home country and has strong literacy skills in English. He demonstrates comprehension of reading assignments and performs well on written assignments but never speaks up in class or in conversations with peers. He appears to be engaged in class discussions, but has difficulty responding when called on to contribute to the discussion. Based on theories about the stages of second language acquisition, the teacher could best address this student's learning needs by taking which of the following steps? - Provide the student with low-risk opportunities to interact verbally and nonverbally in small- and large group situations. This is assessing your understanding of the affective filter and students need for opportunities to interact verbally and non-verbally in a non threatening learning environment. Which of the following best explains why academic language skills are inherently more difficult to acquire than social language skills? - Academic language tends to be context-reduced and more abstract and grammatically complex than social language. Cummins Quadrants - the more context we have, the easier it is to understand language tasks. Concrete concepts are easier to manage than abstract concepts. An English language learner is literate in a primary language that has an orthographic most difficulty decoding which of the following correspondence. This student is likely to have the system with one-to-one sound-symbol English words? municipality development neighborhood government - Neighborhood. The word will cause the most confusion for students whose primary language has an orthographic system with one to one sound symbol correspondence (like Spanish) Several English language learners have achieved grade-level literacy skills in the same first language. The students are working on a language arts unit in which they read autobiographies by well-known people and then write their own autobiographies. Which of the following unit activities would likely be most effective in helping the students transfer their first-language literacy skills to English? - In preparation for writing their autobiographies, the students write journal entries in their first language. The item calls for students to transfer first language literacy skills to English. The best way to access those first language skills would be to write in their first language, rather than having a discussion in the first language. A high school English language learner is having difficulty socializing with native English speakers. As a result, she interacts almost exclusively with other members of her home culture. This situation is likely to have which of the following effects? - delaying her development of English language proficiency. Students need opportunities to interact with native English speakers in order to develop oral proficiency in English. If those opportunities are not provided, English language development will most likely be delayed. An elementary school has a large population of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Administrators have recently adopted a number of policies that support and promote respect for multilingualism in the school. Which of the following best describes a likely effect this action will have on English language learners in the school? - English language learners will be motivated to achieve academically because they will feel that their background experiences are respected and validated. The item focuses on respect for multi-lingualism. The effect thus will produce for students is a feeling if resoect and validation of their background experiences. An ELL teacher expects students from diverse cultural backgrounds to follow an established set of cultural norms in school. However, the teacher also encourages students to maintain the traditions and practices of their native cultures in other settings and when they do not conflict with school norms. This approach is likely to be most effective in achieving which of the following instructional goals? - facilitating students' acculturation to U.S. culture. Remember the definition of acculturation: learning new cultural norms