ESOL CST EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
passive voice - ....ANSWER ...-subject received the action instead of performing it
monitoring - ....ANSWER ...-learning strategy: Krashen hypothesizes that
language instruction results in the
creation of a mental monitor through which the learner filters spoken and written output.
The monitor aids
learners in achieving accuracy, but may hinder the development of fluency. The ideal is a
balance where
the student has opportunities for unrestricted fluency and for using the monitor to "edit"
and develop
accuracy.
BICS-Basic Interpersonal
Communication Skills - ....ANSWER ...-The skills involved in everyday
communication - listening, speaking, carrying on basic
conversation, understanding speakers and getting one's basic needs met.
CALP-Cognitive Academic
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, Language Proficiency - ....ANSWER ...-The skills that are needed to succeed in the
academic classroom, including problem
solving, inferring, analyzing,
synthesizing, and predicting. They go beyond the BICS, demanding much greater
competence in the language.
Comprehensible Input: - ....ANSWER ...-Students learn best when exposed to
samples of
the target language that are at or just above the student's current level of acquisition of
the language. Teachers
can ensure that the language used in the classroom is comprehensible by
evaluating the students on the Stages of Language Acquisition.
Low Affective Filter: - ....ANSWER ...-Students are best able to absorb and
mentally process the language input they receive
when they are in an environment where they are relaxed and their
anxiety level is low. The teacher can provide this by making the classroom a warm,
supportive place where students feel free to take risks with language.
register - ....ANSWER ...-degree of formality
morphology - ....ANSWER ...-branch of linguistics (internal structure of words)
language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of
speech, intonations and stresses, or implied context.
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AND ANSWERS
passive voice - ....ANSWER ...-subject received the action instead of performing it
monitoring - ....ANSWER ...-learning strategy: Krashen hypothesizes that
language instruction results in the
creation of a mental monitor through which the learner filters spoken and written output.
The monitor aids
learners in achieving accuracy, but may hinder the development of fluency. The ideal is a
balance where
the student has opportunities for unrestricted fluency and for using the monitor to "edit"
and develop
accuracy.
BICS-Basic Interpersonal
Communication Skills - ....ANSWER ...-The skills involved in everyday
communication - listening, speaking, carrying on basic
conversation, understanding speakers and getting one's basic needs met.
CALP-Cognitive Academic
....FOR STUDY PURPOSES...©️2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED... 1
, Language Proficiency - ....ANSWER ...-The skills that are needed to succeed in the
academic classroom, including problem
solving, inferring, analyzing,
synthesizing, and predicting. They go beyond the BICS, demanding much greater
competence in the language.
Comprehensible Input: - ....ANSWER ...-Students learn best when exposed to
samples of
the target language that are at or just above the student's current level of acquisition of
the language. Teachers
can ensure that the language used in the classroom is comprehensible by
evaluating the students on the Stages of Language Acquisition.
Low Affective Filter: - ....ANSWER ...-Students are best able to absorb and
mentally process the language input they receive
when they are in an environment where they are relaxed and their
anxiety level is low. The teacher can provide this by making the classroom a warm,
supportive place where students feel free to take risks with language.
register - ....ANSWER ...-degree of formality
morphology - ....ANSWER ...-branch of linguistics (internal structure of words)
language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of
speech, intonations and stresses, or implied context.
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