ESOL GACE Exam Questions and
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Sociolinguistics - ✔✔The study of how social conditions influence the use of language
Code Switching - ✔✔Interspersing one language with another
Dialect - ✔✔Complete system of verbal communication (oral or signed, not written)
with its own pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar; often associated with regions or
social groups
Pragmatics - ✔✔The study of how the context impacts the interpretation of language
Phonology - ✔✔The way in which speech sounds form patterns
Phonemes - ✔✔The smallest unit of sound that affects meaning
Phonographemics - ✔✔Study of letters and letter combinations
Homonyms - ✔✔General term for word forms that have two or more meanings
Homophones - ✔✔Two words with the same pronunciation, but different meaning and
spelling (wood/would, cite/sight)
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,Homographs - ✔✔Two words with the same spelling or pronunciation, but different
meanings (stalk-to follow, stalk-part of a plant)
Heteronyms - ✔✔Two words that have the same spelling, but different pronunciation
and meanings (Polish, polish)
Morphology - ✔✔How the words of a language are formed to create meaningful
messages
Morpheme - ✔✔Smallest unit of a language system that has meaning
Syntax - ✔✔Order words are arranged to create meaning
Standardizer - ✔✔One who successfully integrates new knowledge
Simplifier - ✔✔Reverts to syntactical rules of earlier stages (requires a reteach)
Semantics - ✔✔The meaning of words
Discourse - ✔✔linguistic components of several sentences
BICS - ✔✔Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills
CALP - ✔✔Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
CUP - ✔✔Common Underlying Proficiency (skills that can transfer from L1 to English
learning
LAD - ✔✔Language Acquisition Device
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, Chomsky - ✔✔Language Acquisition Device
Language Acquisition Device - ✔✔innate, nature, experience using language activates
Behaviorist Theory - ✔✔Children learn by being rewarded
Piaget - ✔✔Cognitive Constructivism
Cognitive Constructivism - ✔✔Language as reflection of thought, does not contribute to
development of thinking, cognitive thinking precedes language development
Vygotsky - ✔✔Social Constructivism and Language
Social Constructivism and Language - ✔✔Language first as social communication,
promotes language and cognition
Intentionality - ✔✔Language part of holistic development, depends on environment
Error analysis - ✔✔Recognizing patterns of error
Interlanguage - ✔✔Universal aspects of target language
Development patterns - ✔✔The order in which features of a language are acquired and
sequenced
The Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis - ✔✔Difference between acquisition and learning
(coursework, study, memorization)
The Monitor Hypothesis - ✔✔Learned language monitors the acquired
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Sociolinguistics - ✔✔The study of how social conditions influence the use of language
Code Switching - ✔✔Interspersing one language with another
Dialect - ✔✔Complete system of verbal communication (oral or signed, not written)
with its own pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar; often associated with regions or
social groups
Pragmatics - ✔✔The study of how the context impacts the interpretation of language
Phonology - ✔✔The way in which speech sounds form patterns
Phonemes - ✔✔The smallest unit of sound that affects meaning
Phonographemics - ✔✔Study of letters and letter combinations
Homonyms - ✔✔General term for word forms that have two or more meanings
Homophones - ✔✔Two words with the same pronunciation, but different meaning and
spelling (wood/would, cite/sight)
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,Homographs - ✔✔Two words with the same spelling or pronunciation, but different
meanings (stalk-to follow, stalk-part of a plant)
Heteronyms - ✔✔Two words that have the same spelling, but different pronunciation
and meanings (Polish, polish)
Morphology - ✔✔How the words of a language are formed to create meaningful
messages
Morpheme - ✔✔Smallest unit of a language system that has meaning
Syntax - ✔✔Order words are arranged to create meaning
Standardizer - ✔✔One who successfully integrates new knowledge
Simplifier - ✔✔Reverts to syntactical rules of earlier stages (requires a reteach)
Semantics - ✔✔The meaning of words
Discourse - ✔✔linguistic components of several sentences
BICS - ✔✔Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills
CALP - ✔✔Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
CUP - ✔✔Common Underlying Proficiency (skills that can transfer from L1 to English
learning
LAD - ✔✔Language Acquisition Device
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, Chomsky - ✔✔Language Acquisition Device
Language Acquisition Device - ✔✔innate, nature, experience using language activates
Behaviorist Theory - ✔✔Children learn by being rewarded
Piaget - ✔✔Cognitive Constructivism
Cognitive Constructivism - ✔✔Language as reflection of thought, does not contribute to
development of thinking, cognitive thinking precedes language development
Vygotsky - ✔✔Social Constructivism and Language
Social Constructivism and Language - ✔✔Language first as social communication,
promotes language and cognition
Intentionality - ✔✔Language part of holistic development, depends on environment
Error analysis - ✔✔Recognizing patterns of error
Interlanguage - ✔✔Universal aspects of target language
Development patterns - ✔✔The order in which features of a language are acquired and
sequenced
The Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis - ✔✔Difference between acquisition and learning
(coursework, study, memorization)
The Monitor Hypothesis - ✔✔Learned language monitors the acquired
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