ftce Professional Education Test ESOL questions with complete solutions

ESOL correct answer: English for Speakers of Other Languages META correct answer: Multicultural Education Training and Advocacy LEP correct answer: Limited English Proficiency Consent Decree correct answer: Requires all teachers working with any LEP student to participate in courses and training related to teaching ESOL students and earn formal bilingual or ESOL credentials. Basic ESOL correct answer: instruction in English/Language Arts Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS) correct answer: aspect of language proficiency strongly associated with basic communicative, oral fluency. Basic Subject Area correct answer: language instruction as related to computer literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies. Cognitive/Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) correct answer: aspects of language proficiency strongly related to leracy and academic achievement. More difficult to acquire than BICS and oftern referred to as academic language. Comprehensive Input (CI) correct answer: language that is understandable and meaningful to second language students. It is the language that the student already knows, plus a range of new language tht is made understandable by the use of certain strategies. Home or Native Language correct answer: When used in reference to an individual with limited English proficiency, it means the language normally used by such individual, or in the case of a student, the language normally used by the parents of the student. limited English Proficient (LEP) Basis or Entry correct answer: A one-character code indicating the student's basis for entry into the ESOL program, A - Aural/Oral, R - reading and writing, L - LEP committee, T - temporarily placed in a program b or c home language survey LEP Committee correct answer: composed of ESOL teachers, home language teacher and administrator, guidance counselors, etc. LEP student correct answer: Not born in US and native language not English or born in the US and home language not English, or American Indian or Alaska Native whose language is other than English and has difficulty speaking, reading, writing, or understanding English. LEP Student Plan correct answer: written document that identifies that i