ESL TEXES SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Title III - (ANSWER)federal funding from NCLB to provide supplemental resources to ESL students
Comprehensible Input - (ANSWER)language that is understood by the learner; focuses on meaning first
and uses simplified speech
LPAC - (ANSWER)language proficiency assessment committee
OLPT - (ANSWER)oral language proficiency tests
Types of OLPT - (ANSWER)Idea Proficiency test and WMLS
Inclusion - (ANSWER)push in
surface culture - (ANSWER)part of culture that you can see. for example, language
phonology - (ANSWER)sound patterns we hear in language
phonics - (ANSWER)associated with the sound-symbol relationship of letters; visual correspondence;
know what letters match sounds
prosody - (ANSWER)how we hear sounds; stressed vs. unstressed patterns in words; rhythm; pitch;
intonation; pause;tempo
behaviorist view - (ANSWER)language is learned by mimicking and practicing; people transfer what they
know to new situations
innatist view - (ANSWER)noam chomsky - ability to acquire language is innate; critical period hypothesis;
language acquisition device (ladd); and universal grammar (ug)
,ESL TEXES SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
interactionist view - (ANSWER)no LAD - learn language through multiple experiences and social
interactions; environment is a stronger influence than innate ability
ELPS - (ANSWER)English Language Proficiency Standards - taught K-12, not grade specific, but specific to
proficiency level; linguistically accommodated instruction
PLD - (ANSWER)proficiency level descriptor - reading, writing, speaking, and listening; Beginner,
intermediate, advanced, and advanced high
Pragmatic Competence - (ANSWER)audience, purpose, and genre; awareness of informal vs. formal
language
Syntactic and Semantic Competence - (ANSWER)classify vocabulary to help learn new vocabulary
Readibility Scales - (ANSWER)Fry Readibility, SMOG, raygor
Social Language Learning Strategies - (ANSWER)ask for clarification, ask to repeat or rephrase
meaning Emphases - (ANSWER)whole to part; interaction between reader and text; reader brings
meaning to text through prior knowledge; Meaning, Structure, and Visual
Semantics - (ANSWER)linguistic meanings of words and sentences
Morphology - (ANSWER)rules of word formation
Phonology - (ANSWER)sound system of language
Syntax - (ANSWER)rules of word order in sentence formation
, ESL TEXES SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Phoneme - (ANSWER)minimal sound unit of speech; smallest unit of sound
Morpheme - (ANSWER)meaningful linguistic unit that can't be divided into smaller meaningful elements,
such as book
Bound Morpheme - (ANSWER)morpheme that can't stand alone - such as "re" need to be used in "redo"
-- thinking prefixes, suffixes, and greek roots
Free Morpheme - (ANSWER)a morpheme that can stand alone as an independent word - such as cat, in,
and on
Morphology - (ANSWER)the study of structure and forms of words including derivation, inflection, and
compound words
affix - (ANSWER)bound morpheme that changes the meaning or function of a root word -- think prefix
and suffix
derivation - (ANSWER)use of affixes to build new words from a root or base word -- such as predict to
prediction
false cognate - (ANSWER)word in another language that may have the same origin, but they will have
different spellings, meanings, and pronunciation
partial cognate - (ANSWER)similar cognates in 2 languages with similar meanings, but are spelled
different -- such as fragrance (English) vs. fragrancia (Spanish)
discourse - (ANSWER)continuous stretch of speech or written text going beyond a sentence to express
thought -- conversation
language register - (ANSWER)language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting -
formal vs. intimate
Title III - (ANSWER)federal funding from NCLB to provide supplemental resources to ESL students
Comprehensible Input - (ANSWER)language that is understood by the learner; focuses on meaning first
and uses simplified speech
LPAC - (ANSWER)language proficiency assessment committee
OLPT - (ANSWER)oral language proficiency tests
Types of OLPT - (ANSWER)Idea Proficiency test and WMLS
Inclusion - (ANSWER)push in
surface culture - (ANSWER)part of culture that you can see. for example, language
phonology - (ANSWER)sound patterns we hear in language
phonics - (ANSWER)associated with the sound-symbol relationship of letters; visual correspondence;
know what letters match sounds
prosody - (ANSWER)how we hear sounds; stressed vs. unstressed patterns in words; rhythm; pitch;
intonation; pause;tempo
behaviorist view - (ANSWER)language is learned by mimicking and practicing; people transfer what they
know to new situations
innatist view - (ANSWER)noam chomsky - ability to acquire language is innate; critical period hypothesis;
language acquisition device (ladd); and universal grammar (ug)
,ESL TEXES SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
interactionist view - (ANSWER)no LAD - learn language through multiple experiences and social
interactions; environment is a stronger influence than innate ability
ELPS - (ANSWER)English Language Proficiency Standards - taught K-12, not grade specific, but specific to
proficiency level; linguistically accommodated instruction
PLD - (ANSWER)proficiency level descriptor - reading, writing, speaking, and listening; Beginner,
intermediate, advanced, and advanced high
Pragmatic Competence - (ANSWER)audience, purpose, and genre; awareness of informal vs. formal
language
Syntactic and Semantic Competence - (ANSWER)classify vocabulary to help learn new vocabulary
Readibility Scales - (ANSWER)Fry Readibility, SMOG, raygor
Social Language Learning Strategies - (ANSWER)ask for clarification, ask to repeat or rephrase
meaning Emphases - (ANSWER)whole to part; interaction between reader and text; reader brings
meaning to text through prior knowledge; Meaning, Structure, and Visual
Semantics - (ANSWER)linguistic meanings of words and sentences
Morphology - (ANSWER)rules of word formation
Phonology - (ANSWER)sound system of language
Syntax - (ANSWER)rules of word order in sentence formation
, ESL TEXES SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Phoneme - (ANSWER)minimal sound unit of speech; smallest unit of sound
Morpheme - (ANSWER)meaningful linguistic unit that can't be divided into smaller meaningful elements,
such as book
Bound Morpheme - (ANSWER)morpheme that can't stand alone - such as "re" need to be used in "redo"
-- thinking prefixes, suffixes, and greek roots
Free Morpheme - (ANSWER)a morpheme that can stand alone as an independent word - such as cat, in,
and on
Morphology - (ANSWER)the study of structure and forms of words including derivation, inflection, and
compound words
affix - (ANSWER)bound morpheme that changes the meaning or function of a root word -- think prefix
and suffix
derivation - (ANSWER)use of affixes to build new words from a root or base word -- such as predict to
prediction
false cognate - (ANSWER)word in another language that may have the same origin, but they will have
different spellings, meanings, and pronunciation
partial cognate - (ANSWER)similar cognates in 2 languages with similar meanings, but are spelled
different -- such as fragrance (English) vs. fragrancia (Spanish)
discourse - (ANSWER)continuous stretch of speech or written text going beyond a sentence to express
thought -- conversation
language register - (ANSWER)language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting -
formal vs. intimate
