TEXES ESL Supplemental 154 With Complete
Solutions Latest Update
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 (LAD); and Universal Grammar (UG)
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 rules of word order in sentence formation
Phoneme smallest unit of sound minimal sound unit of speech;
Morpheme meaningful linguistic unit which cannot be further divided into smaller
meaningful elements, such as book
Bound Morpheme morpheme which cannot stand alone such as "re" need to be used in
"redo" thinking prefixes, suffixes and greek roots
Free Morpheme - ANSWER a morpheme which can operate as an independent word on
its own - like cat, in, and on
Morphology - ANSWER the branch of language study concerned with words and their
parts, forms, derivations, inflections, and combination to form compounds
affix - ANSWER bound morpheme altering a root words meaning or role - think prefix and
suffix
derivative-use of affixes to build new words from a root or base word -- such as predict
to prediction
false cognate-word in another language that may have the same origin, but they will
have different spellings, meanings, and pronunciation
partial cognate-similar cognates in 2 languages with similar meanings, but are spelled
Solutions Latest Update
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 (LAD); and Universal Grammar (UG)
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 rules of word order in sentence formation
Phoneme smallest unit of sound minimal sound unit of speech;
Morpheme meaningful linguistic unit which cannot be further divided into smaller
meaningful elements, such as book
Bound Morpheme morpheme which cannot stand alone such as "re" need to be used in
"redo" thinking prefixes, suffixes and greek roots
Free Morpheme - ANSWER a morpheme which can operate as an independent word on
its own - like cat, in, and on
Morphology - ANSWER the branch of language study concerned with words and their
parts, forms, derivations, inflections, and combination to form compounds
affix - ANSWER bound morpheme altering a root words meaning or role - think prefix and
suffix
derivative-use of affixes to build new words from a root or base word -- such as predict
to prediction
false cognate-word in another language that may have the same origin, but they will
have different spellings, meanings, and pronunciation
partial cognate-similar cognates in 2 languages with similar meanings, but are spelled
