ESL EXAM with complete solutions
2024/2025
A teacher is planning an activity in which his esl students will attempt to spell
various words given to them orally. At the end of the exercise they will turn in
their spellings to the teacher. The teacher than analyzed the spelling results of
each student. Which end-result will this activity most likely assist the teacher
measure? - ANSWER-Phonics skills
What you say what you do are two different things. - ANSWER-Coordinating
conjunctions.
Being able to connect speech sounds so the printed letters they represent is a
description of- - ANSWER-Phonics
Which of the following phrases contains a mistake in capitalization - ANSWER-the
North Pole
It is very important to the health of anyone with a history of a problem with
seesaw's of the heart that he or she should avoid the sort of foods with a high
percentage of saturated fat - ANSWER-Prepositional phrases
Individual-crocodile-disturbances-correctness - ANSWER-5-3-4-3
In an optimal English-language learning environment, most students take an
average of five to seven years to develop- - ANSWER-Academic-language
proficiency
, Which of the following models of language acquisition is based on the belief that
a child's language development depends primarily on the relationship between
the child's environment, perceptions, and linguistic experience? - ANSWER-
Interactionist
A new student who recently moved to the United States speaks both Spanish and
German at home. How is this dual-language background likely to affect his
acquisition of English - ANSWER-He will acquire English skills rapidly because
he is already familiar with the concept of structural variations between languages
Students who have already acquired academic language skills and concepts in L1
tend to develop which of the following more rapidly in L2? - ANSWER-Reading
comprehension skills
Some esl students have primarily language that is alphabetical by more
phonetically regular than English. When beginning English reading instruction
with these students, the teacher should be aware that— - ANSWER-The phonetic
irregularities of English are likely to be confusing to the students when they try to
decode unfamiliar English words.
Which of the following factors is likely to have a negative impact on a beginning
English language learners' acquisition of English? - ANSWER-Being encouraged
by teacher and parents to decelerate native language development in favor of
increasing acquisition effort in English
A person says, "I like to play floor." The problem with this sentence could best be
described using which of the following areas of linguistics? - ANSWER-
Semantics
A student who has had five years of previous schooling in his home country has
been placed in the fourth grade in a Texas school. A week later, an immigrant
student from the same country as this student is placed in a different fourth-
grade classroom in the same school. After several weeks it becomes clear that
the student that enrolled last is struggling considerable while his counterpart is
making successful gains on the acquisition of English as a second language.
Which of the following explains the most plausible reason this is happening? -
2024/2025
A teacher is planning an activity in which his esl students will attempt to spell
various words given to them orally. At the end of the exercise they will turn in
their spellings to the teacher. The teacher than analyzed the spelling results of
each student. Which end-result will this activity most likely assist the teacher
measure? - ANSWER-Phonics skills
What you say what you do are two different things. - ANSWER-Coordinating
conjunctions.
Being able to connect speech sounds so the printed letters they represent is a
description of- - ANSWER-Phonics
Which of the following phrases contains a mistake in capitalization - ANSWER-the
North Pole
It is very important to the health of anyone with a history of a problem with
seesaw's of the heart that he or she should avoid the sort of foods with a high
percentage of saturated fat - ANSWER-Prepositional phrases
Individual-crocodile-disturbances-correctness - ANSWER-5-3-4-3
In an optimal English-language learning environment, most students take an
average of five to seven years to develop- - ANSWER-Academic-language
proficiency
, Which of the following models of language acquisition is based on the belief that
a child's language development depends primarily on the relationship between
the child's environment, perceptions, and linguistic experience? - ANSWER-
Interactionist
A new student who recently moved to the United States speaks both Spanish and
German at home. How is this dual-language background likely to affect his
acquisition of English - ANSWER-He will acquire English skills rapidly because
he is already familiar with the concept of structural variations between languages
Students who have already acquired academic language skills and concepts in L1
tend to develop which of the following more rapidly in L2? - ANSWER-Reading
comprehension skills
Some esl students have primarily language that is alphabetical by more
phonetically regular than English. When beginning English reading instruction
with these students, the teacher should be aware that— - ANSWER-The phonetic
irregularities of English are likely to be confusing to the students when they try to
decode unfamiliar English words.
Which of the following factors is likely to have a negative impact on a beginning
English language learners' acquisition of English? - ANSWER-Being encouraged
by teacher and parents to decelerate native language development in favor of
increasing acquisition effort in English
A person says, "I like to play floor." The problem with this sentence could best be
described using which of the following areas of linguistics? - ANSWER-
Semantics
A student who has had five years of previous schooling in his home country has
been placed in the fourth grade in a Texas school. A week later, an immigrant
student from the same country as this student is placed in a different fourth-
grade classroom in the same school. After several weeks it becomes clear that
the student that enrolled last is struggling considerable while his counterpart is
making successful gains on the acquisition of English as a second language.
Which of the following explains the most plausible reason this is happening? -
