ESOL GACE Exam Questions and
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Audio-Lingual Method creation - ✔✔to assist American soldiers in communicating
with foreign military personnel
Audio-Lingual Method - ✔✔It is based on behaviorist theory, which postulates that
certain traits of living things, and in this case humans, could be trained through a
system of reinforcement.
Connectionist Theory - ✔✔Children acquire language by connecting what they already
know to new learning
Connectionist Theory creator - ✔✔Jean Piaget
Silent Phase of Second Language Acquisition - ✔✔ELL students dedicate this time to
learning vocabulary and practice saying new terms.
Early Production Phase of Second Language Acquisition - ✔✔about 6 months, up to
1,000 words, speaks more in short phrases
Speech Emergence Stage - ✔✔up to 1 year; developed 3,000 words and can use short
phrases and simple sentences; begin to use dialogue and ask simple questions; able to
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,answer simple questions; may produce longer sentences but has grammatical errors
that can interfere with communication
intermediate fluency stage of language acquisition - ✔✔learners are able to speak in
more complex sentences and catch and correct many of their errors. About 6,000 words.
Thinking in the second language begins here.
continued language development - ✔✔full mastery of the language
Chomsky's Poverty of Stimulus - ✔✔the controversial argument from linguistics that
children are not exposed to rich enough data within their linguistic environments to
acquire every feature of their language
Morphemes - ✔✔The smallest units of meaning in a language.
Phonemes - ✔✔in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
Fossilization - ✔✔the process in which incorrect language becomes a habit and cannot
easily be corrected.
Interlanguage - ✔✔An emerging linguistic system that has been developed by a learner
of a second language (or L2) who has not become fully proficient yet but is
approximating the target language.
cognate awareness - ✔✔Ability to use cognates in primary language as a tool to
understand English
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, poverty of the stimulus - ✔✔A hypothesis that humans must have innate language
capabilities because we learn our native language in the absence of environmental
conditions, such as direct instruction or a large number of correct and incorrect
examples.
the Language experience approach - ✔✔integrates speaking and listening, reading and
writing through the development of a written text based on first hand experiences
phonics approach - ✔✔teaching reading by first teaching the sounds of each letter and
of various letter combinations
universal grammar - ✔✔Noam Chomsky's theory that all the world's languages share a
similar underlying structure
whole language approach - ✔✔an approach to learning that sees language as a whole
entity, and writing, speaking, reading, and listening should be integrated when learned.
In whole language, learning is built upon the real experiences and background
knowledge of the learner
SLA - ✔✔Second Language Acquisition
Krashen's 5 Hypotheses - ✔✔Natural Order Hypothesis, Acquisition/Learning
Hypothesis, Monitor Hypothesis, Input Hypothesis, & Affective Filter Hypothesis
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Audio-Lingual Method creation - ✔✔to assist American soldiers in communicating
with foreign military personnel
Audio-Lingual Method - ✔✔It is based on behaviorist theory, which postulates that
certain traits of living things, and in this case humans, could be trained through a
system of reinforcement.
Connectionist Theory - ✔✔Children acquire language by connecting what they already
know to new learning
Connectionist Theory creator - ✔✔Jean Piaget
Silent Phase of Second Language Acquisition - ✔✔ELL students dedicate this time to
learning vocabulary and practice saying new terms.
Early Production Phase of Second Language Acquisition - ✔✔about 6 months, up to
1,000 words, speaks more in short phrases
Speech Emergence Stage - ✔✔up to 1 year; developed 3,000 words and can use short
phrases and simple sentences; begin to use dialogue and ask simple questions; able to
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,answer simple questions; may produce longer sentences but has grammatical errors
that can interfere with communication
intermediate fluency stage of language acquisition - ✔✔learners are able to speak in
more complex sentences and catch and correct many of their errors. About 6,000 words.
Thinking in the second language begins here.
continued language development - ✔✔full mastery of the language
Chomsky's Poverty of Stimulus - ✔✔the controversial argument from linguistics that
children are not exposed to rich enough data within their linguistic environments to
acquire every feature of their language
Morphemes - ✔✔The smallest units of meaning in a language.
Phonemes - ✔✔in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
Fossilization - ✔✔the process in which incorrect language becomes a habit and cannot
easily be corrected.
Interlanguage - ✔✔An emerging linguistic system that has been developed by a learner
of a second language (or L2) who has not become fully proficient yet but is
approximating the target language.
cognate awareness - ✔✔Ability to use cognates in primary language as a tool to
understand English
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, poverty of the stimulus - ✔✔A hypothesis that humans must have innate language
capabilities because we learn our native language in the absence of environmental
conditions, such as direct instruction or a large number of correct and incorrect
examples.
the Language experience approach - ✔✔integrates speaking and listening, reading and
writing through the development of a written text based on first hand experiences
phonics approach - ✔✔teaching reading by first teaching the sounds of each letter and
of various letter combinations
universal grammar - ✔✔Noam Chomsky's theory that all the world's languages share a
similar underlying structure
whole language approach - ✔✔an approach to learning that sees language as a whole
entity, and writing, speaking, reading, and listening should be integrated when learned.
In whole language, learning is built upon the real experiences and background
knowledge of the learner
SLA - ✔✔Second Language Acquisition
Krashen's 5 Hypotheses - ✔✔Natural Order Hypothesis, Acquisition/Learning
Hypothesis, Monitor Hypothesis, Input Hypothesis, & Affective Filter Hypothesis
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