UNIV 104 LUO ENGLISH
ASSESSMENT COMPLETE
QUESTION BANK AND
EXPLANATIONS
◉ A high school history teacher wants his ESL class to develop a
deeper understand of historical events. He develops the following
list of essential questions:
- Who are the pivotal participants?
- How does each participant impact the outcome?
- Why is this event important?
- Could the participants have taken diff. course of action?
Following each unit, students discuss the questions in groups and
make brief oral reports on their findings. This instructional strategy
promotes students' content-area proficiency by ?
A. integrating several levels of Bloom's taxonomy.
B. engaging students in critical thinking through activities that foster
communicative competence.
C. impressing upon students the need to memorize the names of key
historical figures.
,D. encouraging students to create a historical timeline that helps
them remember when pivotal events happened. Answer: B
◉ A high school teacher works in a newcomer program in her
district. She wants to make sure she integrates all of the Texas
Administrative Code (TAC) regulations about meeting learners'
needs. She knows newcomer ELL students may be shy about asking
questions in class, so she puts up a poster showing students raising
their hands. The dialogue bubbles show some questions in English
and some in Spanish. The teacher in the poster has a smile on her
face, and her thought bubble says, "Great questions!" This classroom
strategy is designed to address which of the following learner
needs?
A. Conversational
B. Classroom decorum
C. Linguistic
D. Affective Answer: D
,◉ According to the Texas Administrative Code (TAC) Chapter 89, the
basic requirement for implementing an ESL or bilingual program in
a school district is
A. a district-wide enrollment of 50 percent or more students whose
families are classified as Hispanic, Asian, African American, or other
in the U.S. Census Data.
B. campus demographics that include 80 percent speakers of
languages other than English.
C. an enrollment of 20 or more ELL students in any language
classification in the same grade level district-wide.
D. an audit from the Texas Education Agency that finds disparities in
educational approaches used for native and nonnative speakers of
English. Answer: C
◉ Ms. Oliver has an elementary class of beginning ESL students.
During reading time, she integrates nonfiction picture books that
focus on science, history, and social studies topics. She reads a book
to her students orally and then rereads it several times. After several
re-readings, she stops at key points in the book and asks students to
fill in what comes next. Which of the following statements best
explains how this teaching strategy reinforces students' content-
area learning?
, A. The repeated readings and student participation reinforces'
students familiarity with discipline-specific terms and concepts.
B. The oral reading reinforces students' phonological awareness.
C. Reading picture books instead of the actual textbooks simplifies
the content area material for learners who are not yet ready for
challenging content.
D. Working with picture books allows students to learn to spell high-
frequency words in a mea Answer: A
◉ A ninth-grade speech communication class is evenly divided
among ELL students and native speakers. The teacher has assigned
an informal speech. As part of the preparation for this assignment,
she shows several movie clips with the sound turned off. The
rational that best explains how this activity will promote student
achievement in this informal speech assignment is that
A. watching film segments with the sound off will provide an
opportunity to analyze how nonverbal cues, body language, and
gestures contribute to communication.
ASSESSMENT COMPLETE
QUESTION BANK AND
EXPLANATIONS
◉ A high school history teacher wants his ESL class to develop a
deeper understand of historical events. He develops the following
list of essential questions:
- Who are the pivotal participants?
- How does each participant impact the outcome?
- Why is this event important?
- Could the participants have taken diff. course of action?
Following each unit, students discuss the questions in groups and
make brief oral reports on their findings. This instructional strategy
promotes students' content-area proficiency by ?
A. integrating several levels of Bloom's taxonomy.
B. engaging students in critical thinking through activities that foster
communicative competence.
C. impressing upon students the need to memorize the names of key
historical figures.
,D. encouraging students to create a historical timeline that helps
them remember when pivotal events happened. Answer: B
◉ A high school teacher works in a newcomer program in her
district. She wants to make sure she integrates all of the Texas
Administrative Code (TAC) regulations about meeting learners'
needs. She knows newcomer ELL students may be shy about asking
questions in class, so she puts up a poster showing students raising
their hands. The dialogue bubbles show some questions in English
and some in Spanish. The teacher in the poster has a smile on her
face, and her thought bubble says, "Great questions!" This classroom
strategy is designed to address which of the following learner
needs?
A. Conversational
B. Classroom decorum
C. Linguistic
D. Affective Answer: D
,◉ According to the Texas Administrative Code (TAC) Chapter 89, the
basic requirement for implementing an ESL or bilingual program in
a school district is
A. a district-wide enrollment of 50 percent or more students whose
families are classified as Hispanic, Asian, African American, or other
in the U.S. Census Data.
B. campus demographics that include 80 percent speakers of
languages other than English.
C. an enrollment of 20 or more ELL students in any language
classification in the same grade level district-wide.
D. an audit from the Texas Education Agency that finds disparities in
educational approaches used for native and nonnative speakers of
English. Answer: C
◉ Ms. Oliver has an elementary class of beginning ESL students.
During reading time, she integrates nonfiction picture books that
focus on science, history, and social studies topics. She reads a book
to her students orally and then rereads it several times. After several
re-readings, she stops at key points in the book and asks students to
fill in what comes next. Which of the following statements best
explains how this teaching strategy reinforces students' content-
area learning?
, A. The repeated readings and student participation reinforces'
students familiarity with discipline-specific terms and concepts.
B. The oral reading reinforces students' phonological awareness.
C. Reading picture books instead of the actual textbooks simplifies
the content area material for learners who are not yet ready for
challenging content.
D. Working with picture books allows students to learn to spell high-
frequency words in a mea Answer: A
◉ A ninth-grade speech communication class is evenly divided
among ELL students and native speakers. The teacher has assigned
an informal speech. As part of the preparation for this assignment,
she shows several movie clips with the sound turned off. The
rational that best explains how this activity will promote student
achievement in this informal speech assignment is that
A. watching film segments with the sound off will provide an
opportunity to analyze how nonverbal cues, body language, and
gestures contribute to communication.
