TESOL Final Exam Questions & Answers Graded A+

What is the largest represented language in the ELL population? - Answer Spanish (76.9%) Lau Vs. Nichols - Answer Equal Access California Chinese americans were not receiving adequate English language instruction Banned discrimination because of race or national origin Plyler Vs. Doe - Answer Legal Status Not Important Texas School district Aliens without documents still have the right to an education META Consent Decree - Answer "Multicultural Education and Training Advocacy" Addresses how students will not be denied an education because of their limited English No Child Left Behind Act - Answer Passed in 2002 Requires annual testing on reading and math skills States must describe how they are going to close the achievement gap; if they do not make progress they must provide supplemental services Provided educational options for families of ELLs "Limited English Proficient" - Answer Age 3-21 In elementary/secondary school Native language other than english Has difficulty reading, writing or understanding english Universal Properties of language - Answer -language exists where ever human exist - any normal child is capable of acquiring language that he or she is exposed to - all languages are dynamic - productivity property - displacement property - discreteness property - arbitrariness property Productivity property - Answer language's limited set of sounds and gestures can be used to form an unlimited set of sentences. Displacement Property - Answer enables humans to use language for a variety of functions (ex: refer to past, present and future, ask questions...etc) Discreteness Property - Answer each language has its own distinct sounds Arbitrariness Property - Answer Sound combinations don't necessarily have a meaning. People agree on what the sound combination represents Phonology - Answer the sound system; governs pronunciation - sounds do not have a one-to-one correspondence - ELLS will transfer L1 rules for L2 morphology - Answer the system in which words are built syntax - Answer the system in which words are arranged in sentence - focuses on sentence structure Example/Non-example - The cat sat on the mat. - The cat on the mat sat. semantics - Answer the system of word meaning (also phrases and sentences) The study of semantics can be divided into: -- Relationship between words - Relationship between words and structures - Language as an expression of culture and worldview pragmatics - Answer the system of how language is used in society Phoneme - Answer smallest unit of sound minimal pairs - Answer words that differ by only one phoneme - example - pat and bat phonemic sequence - Answer permissible ways in which phonemes can be arranged - example : /dr/ is a consonant cluster in English whereas /sr/ is not Phonemic Syllabication - Answer when a word ends in a consonant sound and the following word begins with a vowel - linking (example: An Apron)