Exam 5: Language Development, Language Diversity, and Immigrant Education

Which of the following is a recommended approach to balanced bilingualism in schools today?

People who are inadequate speakers of both their native language and their second language are called ________.

An English language learner who has difficulty with academic learning but converses well in both languages may be described as which of the following?

Children who are raised bilingual from birth can be expected to:

Subtractive bilingualism describes the process of losing one's first language when adding a second one.

Research on bilingual education shows that teaching some subjects in a students' native (non-English or non-French) language

By what age do most children master the sounds of their native language?

Damian is an ELL student in high school. He is able to converse enough to make friends and play games, but he does not understand academic language very well. Based on guidelines for providing emotional support for ELL students, which one of his teachers seems to be most effective in working with Damian?

Most young children prefer to use the words they can easily pronounce.

While immigrants leave their home country voluntarily, ______________ leave their country because their home country is not safe.

Which one of the following statements is TRUE?

Funds of knowledge include familial and community sources of knowledge that are usually excluded from the classroom because they are outside the scope of curriculum requirements.

Susana says "my backpack was forgotted", which is an example of what problem of learning grammar?

What is the term that is defined as the different ways of talking for males and females?

In which of the following situations is the SIOP model being used?

A widely used system for checking that each element of sheltered instruction is present for a teacher is the ____________________.

Based on information about genderlects, which of the following statements is most likely made by Calli, a middle school girl, and not one of the boys in her class?

At home in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Shawn only speaks Inuktitut with his grandmother who has lived her entire life in Nunavut. When speaking with his grandmother in Nunavut, Shawn is using his

Generally, students are not ready to study the rules of a language formally until about age five. This is when most students have started to gain

Reese is a deaf one-year-old child. Her parents have been learning and using signed language since Reese's birth. What might they expect about their daughter's language skill development?