ESL 154 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
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Phonology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the study of speech sounds in language; how
sounds are organized and used in natural languages
Morphology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Units of meaning involved in word formation
Syntax - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Rules for combining words into grammatically
sensible sentences
Semantics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Set of rules by which we derive meaning from
morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of
meaning
Pragmatics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Appropriate use of language in different
contexts; social use of language
,What are two examples of critical components for the second language
learner? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Oral language development and
phonological/phonemic awareness
ELLs need ____________________ of L2 before they can make
connections between letter and sound. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Phonology
___________________ awareness instruction focuses on the sounds in
spoken language. It is auditory and does not involve print. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Phonological
Target Sound - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sound to be transcribed
An English language learner is experiencing difficulty with an aspect of
English phonology. In order to address a difficulty in this area, the student's
teacher should initially focus instruction on what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The
associated target sound
Phoneme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The smallest distinctive sound unit
What are some best practices strategies to promote literacy development
for ELLs? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Teach phonics in context
Use hands on activities to help teach letter-sound relationships
,Have students write for sound
Help students make a connection between their L1 and English.
The approach of teachers making students see them writing down their
exact words to reinforce their understanding of the relationship between
written and oral language trains students to...? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Write for
sound - they learn to represent words phonetically in their writing
Content Based Instruction + 3 Models - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔CBI: requires
students to practice language skills in a highly integrated, communicative
way while learning content
3 Models:
1) theme-based - language skills are integrated in the study of themes or
broad topics
2) adjunct - language and content courses are taught separately but closely
coordinated
3) sheltered - English is simplified to ELL's level of proficiency while
teaching content
Why is combining sentences to make complex sentences an important
exercise to help ESL students advance in their writing abilities? - 🧠
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, ANSWER ✔✔Most of the sentences used in writing or in continuous
speech are complex.
Literal comprehension - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Understanding of the basic facts
that the student has read; grasping and interpreting text
Inferential comprehension - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Understanding of information
that isn't explicitly given, but rather implied in a written passage. (make
predictions); make inferences
What are sentence stems and why are they used? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Sentence starters followed by blank lines.
Provide scaffolding to help students get started in speaking or writing
without the added pressure of thinking about how to correctly formulate a
response.
Academic language and sentence structure is difficult for ELLs. Stems help
with proper sentence structure. They help build an understanding of
syntactic structure
Decoding - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Reader's ability to use knowledge of the
relationships between letters in print and the speech sounds they represent
in order to identify an unfamiliar word.
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Phonology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the study of speech sounds in language; how
sounds are organized and used in natural languages
Morphology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Units of meaning involved in word formation
Syntax - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Rules for combining words into grammatically
sensible sentences
Semantics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Set of rules by which we derive meaning from
morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of
meaning
Pragmatics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Appropriate use of language in different
contexts; social use of language
,What are two examples of critical components for the second language
learner? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Oral language development and
phonological/phonemic awareness
ELLs need ____________________ of L2 before they can make
connections between letter and sound. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Phonology
___________________ awareness instruction focuses on the sounds in
spoken language. It is auditory and does not involve print. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Phonological
Target Sound - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sound to be transcribed
An English language learner is experiencing difficulty with an aspect of
English phonology. In order to address a difficulty in this area, the student's
teacher should initially focus instruction on what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The
associated target sound
Phoneme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The smallest distinctive sound unit
What are some best practices strategies to promote literacy development
for ELLs? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Teach phonics in context
Use hands on activities to help teach letter-sound relationships
,Have students write for sound
Help students make a connection between their L1 and English.
The approach of teachers making students see them writing down their
exact words to reinforce their understanding of the relationship between
written and oral language trains students to...? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Write for
sound - they learn to represent words phonetically in their writing
Content Based Instruction + 3 Models - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔CBI: requires
students to practice language skills in a highly integrated, communicative
way while learning content
3 Models:
1) theme-based - language skills are integrated in the study of themes or
broad topics
2) adjunct - language and content courses are taught separately but closely
coordinated
3) sheltered - English is simplified to ELL's level of proficiency while
teaching content
Why is combining sentences to make complex sentences an important
exercise to help ESL students advance in their writing abilities? - 🧠
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, ANSWER ✔✔Most of the sentences used in writing or in continuous
speech are complex.
Literal comprehension - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Understanding of the basic facts
that the student has read; grasping and interpreting text
Inferential comprehension - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Understanding of information
that isn't explicitly given, but rather implied in a written passage. (make
predictions); make inferences
What are sentence stems and why are they used? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Sentence starters followed by blank lines.
Provide scaffolding to help students get started in speaking or writing
without the added pressure of thinking about how to correctly formulate a
response.
Academic language and sentence structure is difficult for ELLs. Stems help
with proper sentence structure. They help build an understanding of
syntactic structure
Decoding - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Reader's ability to use knowledge of the
relationships between letters in print and the speech sounds they represent
in order to identify an unfamiliar word.
