EPSY FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Academic Language (180) - Answers :The entire range of language used in elementary,
secondary, and university-level schools including words, concepts, strategies, and
processes from academic subjects
Balanced Lingualism (177) - Answers :Adding a second language capability without
losing your heritage language
Bilingual (175) - Answers :Speaking two languages and dealing appropriately in the face
of contradictory evidence
Code-Switching (184) - Answers :Moving between two speech forms
Critical Periods (175) - Answers :If learning doesn't happen during these periods, it
never will
Cultural Deficit Model (186) - Answers :A model that explains the school achievement
problems of ethnic minority students by assuming that their culture in inadequate and
does not prepare them to succeed in school
Dialect (182) - Answers :Any variety of language spoken by a particular group
Emergent Literacy (171) - Answers :The skills and knowledge, usually developed in the
preschool years, that are the foundation for the development of reading and writing
English as a Second Language (ESL) (189) - Answers :The classes devoted to teaching
ELL students English
English Language Learners (ELL) (186) - Answers :Students who are learning English
when their primary or heritage language is not English
Expressive Vocabulary (169) - Answers :The words a person can use in speaking
Funds of Knowledge (196) - Answers :Knowledge that families and community
members have acquired in many areas of work, home, and religious life that can
become the basis for teaching
Genderlects (184) - Answers :Different ways of talking for males and females
Generation 1.5 (188) - Answers :Students whose characteristics, educational
experiences, and language fluencies are somewhere in between those of students born
in the United States and students who are recent immigrants
Heritage Language (176) - Answers :The language spoken in the student's home or by
members of the family
, Immigrants (185) - Answers :People who voluntarily leave their country to become
permanent residents in a new place
Inside-Out Skills (172) - Answers :The emergent literacy skills of knowledge of
graphemes, phonological awareness, syntactic awareness, phoneme-grapheme
correspondence, and emergent writing
Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) (189) - Answers :A term also used for students who are
learning English when their primary or heritage language is not English- not the
preferred term because of the negative connotations
Melting Pot (185) - Answers :A metaphor for the absorption and assimilation of
immigrants into the mainstream of society so that ethnic differences vanish
Metalinguistic Awareness (171) - Answers :Understanding about one's own use of
language
Monolingual (175) - Answers :Speaking only one language
Outside-In Skills (172) - Answers :The emergent literacy skills of language, narrative,
conventions of print, and emergent reading
Overregularize (170) - Answers :To apply a rule of syntax or grammar in situations
where the rule does not apply; for example, "the bike was broked"
Pragmatics (170) - Answers :The rules for when and how to use language to be an
effective communicator in a particular culture
Receptive Vocabulary (169) - Answers :The words a person can understand in spoken
or written words
Refugees (185) - Answers :A special group of immigrants who also relocate voluntarily,
but who are fleeing their home country because it is not safe
Semilingual (190) - Answers :A lack of proficiency in any language; speaking one or
more languages inadequately
Sensitive Periods (175) - Answers :Time when a person is especially ready to learn
certain things or responsive to certain experiences
Sheltered Instruction (192) - Answers :Approach to teaching that improves English
language skills while teaching content to ELL students by putting the words and
concepts of the content into context to make the content more understandable
Academic Language (180) - Answers :The entire range of language used in elementary,
secondary, and university-level schools including words, concepts, strategies, and
processes from academic subjects
Balanced Lingualism (177) - Answers :Adding a second language capability without
losing your heritage language
Bilingual (175) - Answers :Speaking two languages and dealing appropriately in the face
of contradictory evidence
Code-Switching (184) - Answers :Moving between two speech forms
Critical Periods (175) - Answers :If learning doesn't happen during these periods, it
never will
Cultural Deficit Model (186) - Answers :A model that explains the school achievement
problems of ethnic minority students by assuming that their culture in inadequate and
does not prepare them to succeed in school
Dialect (182) - Answers :Any variety of language spoken by a particular group
Emergent Literacy (171) - Answers :The skills and knowledge, usually developed in the
preschool years, that are the foundation for the development of reading and writing
English as a Second Language (ESL) (189) - Answers :The classes devoted to teaching
ELL students English
English Language Learners (ELL) (186) - Answers :Students who are learning English
when their primary or heritage language is not English
Expressive Vocabulary (169) - Answers :The words a person can use in speaking
Funds of Knowledge (196) - Answers :Knowledge that families and community
members have acquired in many areas of work, home, and religious life that can
become the basis for teaching
Genderlects (184) - Answers :Different ways of talking for males and females
Generation 1.5 (188) - Answers :Students whose characteristics, educational
experiences, and language fluencies are somewhere in between those of students born
in the United States and students who are recent immigrants
Heritage Language (176) - Answers :The language spoken in the student's home or by
members of the family
, Immigrants (185) - Answers :People who voluntarily leave their country to become
permanent residents in a new place
Inside-Out Skills (172) - Answers :The emergent literacy skills of knowledge of
graphemes, phonological awareness, syntactic awareness, phoneme-grapheme
correspondence, and emergent writing
Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) (189) - Answers :A term also used for students who are
learning English when their primary or heritage language is not English- not the
preferred term because of the negative connotations
Melting Pot (185) - Answers :A metaphor for the absorption and assimilation of
immigrants into the mainstream of society so that ethnic differences vanish
Metalinguistic Awareness (171) - Answers :Understanding about one's own use of
language
Monolingual (175) - Answers :Speaking only one language
Outside-In Skills (172) - Answers :The emergent literacy skills of language, narrative,
conventions of print, and emergent reading
Overregularize (170) - Answers :To apply a rule of syntax or grammar in situations
where the rule does not apply; for example, "the bike was broked"
Pragmatics (170) - Answers :The rules for when and how to use language to be an
effective communicator in a particular culture
Receptive Vocabulary (169) - Answers :The words a person can understand in spoken
or written words
Refugees (185) - Answers :A special group of immigrants who also relocate voluntarily,
but who are fleeing their home country because it is not safe
Semilingual (190) - Answers :A lack of proficiency in any language; speaking one or
more languages inadequately
Sensitive Periods (175) - Answers :Time when a person is especially ready to learn
certain things or responsive to certain experiences
Sheltered Instruction (192) - Answers :Approach to teaching that improves English
language skills while teaching content to ELL students by putting the words and
concepts of the content into context to make the content more understandable
