CSET Subtest IV - World Language questions
and answers 2024\2025 A+ Grade
Fourteen Amendment
- correct answer Established the constitutional basis for the educational rights of language minority
students.
Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954
- correct answer Ordered desegregation of schools. Established the principle of equal educational
opportunity for all students.
Mendez vs. Westminster (preceded Brown by 9 years)
- correct answer Ended segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students in Orange County.
Title VI Civil Rights Act, 1964
- correct answer Prohibited discrimination in federally funded programs. Established the principle of
equal opportunity for national origin minority groups.
Bilingual Education Acts of 1968 & 1974. Also Title VII.
(Chacon-Moscone Bilingual-Bicultural Ed. Act, 1974)
- correct answer Provided supplemental funding for schools to meet special educational needs of LEP
students. Didn't specify methods of instruction.
Established transitional bilingual educ. programs to meet the needs of LEP students. Program
requirements follow federal guidelines for identification, program placement, and reclassification of
students as FEP.
May 25, 1970 Memorandum
- correct answer Prohibited the denial of access to educational programs because of a student's limited
English proficiency.
Equal Educational Opportunity Act, 1974
- correct answer Provided definition of what constituted denial of equal educational opportunity.
,Lau vs. Nichols, 1970
- correct answer Chinese student against San Francisco SD, states that students didn't receive equal
education when taught in language they didn't understand. Result: Requires SD to provide equal access
to the core curriculum for students whose primary language is not English.
Castaneda vs. Pickard, 1981
- correct answer Set the standards for the courts in examining programs for LEP students. To comply
with federal law, local SD must have: a pedagogical plan for LEP students, sufficient qualified staff to
implement the plan, and a system established to evaluate the program. Required to take appropriate
action to overcome language barriers.
Bilingual Education Act, 1981
- correct answer Strengthened the obligations of SD to LEP.
Proposition 227, 1998
- correct answer Required SD to dismantle transitional bilingual programs that taught students literacy
skills and academic content to LEP students in their L1 while they learned English. However, it had a
provision allowing parents to apply for waivers allowing students to continue in Bil. Educ. under certain
specified conditions.
Williams vs. State of CA, 2000-2004
- correct answer Provisions that stated better bilingual education instruction was needed. State settled
and is making change throughout the state.
Separate Underlying Proficiency Theory (SUP)
- correct answer States that L1 proficiency and L2 proficiency are separate and not connected at all.
Assumes that skills & content in L1 don't transfer to L2.
Common Underlying Proficiency Theory (CUP)
- correct answer Indicates that a child acquires a set of skills and implicit metalinguistic knowledge that
can be drawn upon when working in another language. Students are learning concepts as they're
learning L1, and those concepts are transferable to L2. L1 and L2 are interdependent.
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)
- correct answer The universal aspects of language proficiency required for all native speakers of a
language to communicate successfully.
, Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)
- correct answer Refers to language skills associated with literacy and cognitive development learned
through formal instruction.
Bilingual Education
- correct answer Instruction in 2 languages for any part of or all of the school curriculum.
Bilingual Bi-cultural Education
- correct answer Broader scope program as a total educational approach for developing bilingualism in
all American children and for nurturing the linguistic resources already possessed by language
minorities.
English as a Second Language
- correct answer Selected for students with low English proficiency and need intensive English
instruction. Sets aside time for intensive direct instruction of English skills, fragmented not easily
transferred to core curriculum and with low expectations.
English Language Development
- correct answer Teaches English through academic content, designed for lower levels of language
proficiency, emphasis on listening, speaking & early literacy instruction. Organized around themes based
on academic standards and content area.
Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE)
- correct answer Effective for students with higher levels of
English, content area focused with modifications, maintains high expectations. Also known as "sheltered
English."
Transitional Bilingual Education
- correct answer Teaches literacy in students L1, uses L2 teaching methodology, requires structured
content area instruction according to students language proficiency until students are competent
enough to move into mainstream education.
and answers 2024\2025 A+ Grade
Fourteen Amendment
- correct answer Established the constitutional basis for the educational rights of language minority
students.
Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954
- correct answer Ordered desegregation of schools. Established the principle of equal educational
opportunity for all students.
Mendez vs. Westminster (preceded Brown by 9 years)
- correct answer Ended segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students in Orange County.
Title VI Civil Rights Act, 1964
- correct answer Prohibited discrimination in federally funded programs. Established the principle of
equal opportunity for national origin minority groups.
Bilingual Education Acts of 1968 & 1974. Also Title VII.
(Chacon-Moscone Bilingual-Bicultural Ed. Act, 1974)
- correct answer Provided supplemental funding for schools to meet special educational needs of LEP
students. Didn't specify methods of instruction.
Established transitional bilingual educ. programs to meet the needs of LEP students. Program
requirements follow federal guidelines for identification, program placement, and reclassification of
students as FEP.
May 25, 1970 Memorandum
- correct answer Prohibited the denial of access to educational programs because of a student's limited
English proficiency.
Equal Educational Opportunity Act, 1974
- correct answer Provided definition of what constituted denial of equal educational opportunity.
,Lau vs. Nichols, 1970
- correct answer Chinese student against San Francisco SD, states that students didn't receive equal
education when taught in language they didn't understand. Result: Requires SD to provide equal access
to the core curriculum for students whose primary language is not English.
Castaneda vs. Pickard, 1981
- correct answer Set the standards for the courts in examining programs for LEP students. To comply
with federal law, local SD must have: a pedagogical plan for LEP students, sufficient qualified staff to
implement the plan, and a system established to evaluate the program. Required to take appropriate
action to overcome language barriers.
Bilingual Education Act, 1981
- correct answer Strengthened the obligations of SD to LEP.
Proposition 227, 1998
- correct answer Required SD to dismantle transitional bilingual programs that taught students literacy
skills and academic content to LEP students in their L1 while they learned English. However, it had a
provision allowing parents to apply for waivers allowing students to continue in Bil. Educ. under certain
specified conditions.
Williams vs. State of CA, 2000-2004
- correct answer Provisions that stated better bilingual education instruction was needed. State settled
and is making change throughout the state.
Separate Underlying Proficiency Theory (SUP)
- correct answer States that L1 proficiency and L2 proficiency are separate and not connected at all.
Assumes that skills & content in L1 don't transfer to L2.
Common Underlying Proficiency Theory (CUP)
- correct answer Indicates that a child acquires a set of skills and implicit metalinguistic knowledge that
can be drawn upon when working in another language. Students are learning concepts as they're
learning L1, and those concepts are transferable to L2. L1 and L2 are interdependent.
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)
- correct answer The universal aspects of language proficiency required for all native speakers of a
language to communicate successfully.
, Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)
- correct answer Refers to language skills associated with literacy and cognitive development learned
through formal instruction.
Bilingual Education
- correct answer Instruction in 2 languages for any part of or all of the school curriculum.
Bilingual Bi-cultural Education
- correct answer Broader scope program as a total educational approach for developing bilingualism in
all American children and for nurturing the linguistic resources already possessed by language
minorities.
English as a Second Language
- correct answer Selected for students with low English proficiency and need intensive English
instruction. Sets aside time for intensive direct instruction of English skills, fragmented not easily
transferred to core curriculum and with low expectations.
English Language Development
- correct answer Teaches English through academic content, designed for lower levels of language
proficiency, emphasis on listening, speaking & early literacy instruction. Organized around themes based
on academic standards and content area.
Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE)
- correct answer Effective for students with higher levels of
English, content area focused with modifications, maintains high expectations. Also known as "sheltered
English."
Transitional Bilingual Education
- correct answer Teaches literacy in students L1, uses L2 teaching methodology, requires structured
content area instruction according to students language proficiency until students are competent
enough to move into mainstream education.
