ESL TEXES Supplemental Prep Exam Questions And Actual Answers.

Acculturation - Answer The process of adapting to a new culture. The process of acculturation occurs through several strategies including the following: - Answer assimilation & marginalization Assimilation - Answer The members of a group are absorbed into a culture and lose characteristics of the first culture. The group is willing or forced to accept the surface and deep culture of the new culture and give up original culture. Marginalization - Answer Groups lacking desirable traits are excluded from society. These groups include poor, uneducated, undesirable color and language. These groups will stay on the margin of acceptance by society unless there is social intervention. Adaptation - Answer Finding ways to adapt to and become part of the new culture while maintaining important values and customs of the original culture. Affective Filter - Answer The psychological barrier that allows input to be filtered through to a language processing mechanism. A low filter has little anxiety increasing comprehension and attention. Assimilation - Answer Deciding to become like members of the new culture, to accept their surface and deep culture, and giving up the original culture. Bilingual Education - Answer An educational program in which two languages are used during instruction in order to 1) continue primary language development, 2) provide instruction in content in both L1 and L2, and 3) English acquisition. BICS - Answer (Cummins, J. ) Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills: Skills necessary for functioning in every day life, face-to face interactions. These skills usually take about two years to develop in most second language learners.