TESOL Praxis Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
CALP - CORRECT ANSWER - Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency is the basis for
a child's ability to cope with the academic demands placed upon her in the various subjects.
Cummins states that while many children develop native speaker fluency (i.e. BICS) within two
years of immersion in the target language, it takes between 5-7 years for a child to be working on
a level with native speakers as far as academic language is concerned.
NABE - CORRECT ANSWER - National Association for Bilingual Education
CAL - CORRECT ANSWER - Center for Applied Linguistics
BICS - CORRECT ANSWER - Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills.
BICS refers to basic social language used in everyday contexts. These are the "surface" skills of
listening and speaking which are typically acquired quickly by many students
CALLA - CORRECT ANSWER - The Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach
SIOP Model - CORRECT ANSWER - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol Model
TPR - CORRECT ANSWER - Total Physical Response; when using TPR, teachers
physically demonstrate the meaning of words or phrases when giving directions or practicing
new vocabulary.
TPR works by having the learner respond to simple commands such as "Stand up", "Close your
book", "Go to the window and open it." The method stresses the importance of aural
comprehension.
Voiced v. Voiceless Sounds - CORRECT ANSWER - A voiced sound is one in which the
vocal cords vibrate, and a voiceless sound is one in which they do not.
, For example, voicing accounts for the difference between the pair of sounds associated with the
English letters "s" and "z".
Final Intonation Patterns - CORRECT ANSWER - Rising or falling in intonation
Stages of Second Language Acquisition - CORRECT ANSWER - Early Production
Speech Emergence
Intermediate Fluency
Advanced Fluency
Suggestopedia - CORRECT ANSWER - The theory underlying this method is that a
language can be acquired only when the learner is receptive and has no mental blocks. By
various methods it is suggested to the student that the language is easy - and in this way the
mental blocks to learning are removed.
Physical surroundings and atmosphere in classroom are the vital factors to make sure that "the
students feel comfortable and confident", and various techniques, including art and music, are
used by the trained teachers.
The lesson of Suggestopedia consisted of three phases at first: deciphering, concert session
(memorization séance), and elaboration.
Language Experience Approach - CORRECT ANSWER - The language experience
approach promotes literacy development through the use of students' personal experiences.
Typically, the teacher will ask students to talk about an event in their lives and transcribe their
speech. The transcription can then be used as the basis for reading and writing activities.
Structural Approach - CORRECT ANSWER - This method sees language as a complex of
grammatical rules which are to be learned one at a time in a set order. So for example the verb
"to be" is introduced and practiced before the present continuous tense which uses "to be" as an
auxiliary.
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
CALP - CORRECT ANSWER - Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency is the basis for
a child's ability to cope with the academic demands placed upon her in the various subjects.
Cummins states that while many children develop native speaker fluency (i.e. BICS) within two
years of immersion in the target language, it takes between 5-7 years for a child to be working on
a level with native speakers as far as academic language is concerned.
NABE - CORRECT ANSWER - National Association for Bilingual Education
CAL - CORRECT ANSWER - Center for Applied Linguistics
BICS - CORRECT ANSWER - Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills.
BICS refers to basic social language used in everyday contexts. These are the "surface" skills of
listening and speaking which are typically acquired quickly by many students
CALLA - CORRECT ANSWER - The Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach
SIOP Model - CORRECT ANSWER - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol Model
TPR - CORRECT ANSWER - Total Physical Response; when using TPR, teachers
physically demonstrate the meaning of words or phrases when giving directions or practicing
new vocabulary.
TPR works by having the learner respond to simple commands such as "Stand up", "Close your
book", "Go to the window and open it." The method stresses the importance of aural
comprehension.
Voiced v. Voiceless Sounds - CORRECT ANSWER - A voiced sound is one in which the
vocal cords vibrate, and a voiceless sound is one in which they do not.
, For example, voicing accounts for the difference between the pair of sounds associated with the
English letters "s" and "z".
Final Intonation Patterns - CORRECT ANSWER - Rising or falling in intonation
Stages of Second Language Acquisition - CORRECT ANSWER - Early Production
Speech Emergence
Intermediate Fluency
Advanced Fluency
Suggestopedia - CORRECT ANSWER - The theory underlying this method is that a
language can be acquired only when the learner is receptive and has no mental blocks. By
various methods it is suggested to the student that the language is easy - and in this way the
mental blocks to learning are removed.
Physical surroundings and atmosphere in classroom are the vital factors to make sure that "the
students feel comfortable and confident", and various techniques, including art and music, are
used by the trained teachers.
The lesson of Suggestopedia consisted of three phases at first: deciphering, concert session
(memorization séance), and elaboration.
Language Experience Approach - CORRECT ANSWER - The language experience
approach promotes literacy development through the use of students' personal experiences.
Typically, the teacher will ask students to talk about an event in their lives and transcribe their
speech. The transcription can then be used as the basis for reading and writing activities.
Structural Approach - CORRECT ANSWER - This method sees language as a complex of
grammatical rules which are to be learned one at a time in a set order. So for example the verb
"to be" is introduced and practiced before the present continuous tense which uses "to be" as an
auxiliary.
